Thursday, December 17th, 2009
This recipe is a first for me, it is the first time I was successful making candy. The last time I tried boiling sugar I burned it. I burned it badly. I actually had to throw away the pot because the sugar had scorched the bottom. This time around I did not leave the room, [...]
Tags: chocolate, Christmas candy, English toffee, Heath Bar, treats
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Monday, November 9th, 2009
My children love helping me in the kitchen. They both like to help with the cleaning and the cooking, I’m lucky. Sasha has started figuring out that certain foods combined together can make a specific dish. When I grab celery, carrots, and onions she asks if I am making soup. If I put a big [...]
Tags: banana bread, bundt cake, Cake, chocolate
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
I’ve joined Daring Bakers! At the end of each month I watch my Google Reader with much anticipation waiting to see what that month’s challenge was and the beautiful photos that accompany the delicious recipes. Each month I tell myself, “well I could have baked that”. Baking isn’t my strong point, I don’t have a [...]
Tags: cheese cake, Chewy, chocolate, Cream Cheese, Daring Baker, Gooey, Jill O'Connor, Messy, Sticky
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Lately it seems like I have the best intentions of writing, I just never follow through with them. Ugh! My goal is to post something more often. I have so many recipes and photos of different food that I haven’t posted yet. This weekend I was really ambitious, I made homemade doughnuts, that is going [...]
Tags: Baking, buttercream, Cake, cake decorating, chocolate, dessert, frosting, homemade frosting, icing, love, romance, silicone bakeware, Valentine's day, Wilton
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
Sasha all bundled up. It has been extremely cold here in Iowa. We have received about 10 inches or more of snow in the last five days. This morning when I woke up it was -17 and with the wind chill it felt like -30. BRR that is really cold. Needless to say, Marley does [...]
Tags: chocolate, chocolate chip, cookies, cooking, food, giant cookies, Iowa, milk chocolate, no egg cookie, pecan cookies, semisweet chocolate, winter
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Sunday evening Alex, the girls and I started a family tradition (hopefully). ‘Tis the season to stuff ourselves with sugary treats. We put on some Tchaikovsky and let Sasha dance away while we made Christmas treats. Alex dipped pretzels in vanilla almond bark and I whipped up some chocolate creme de menthe cookies. When I [...]
Tags: almond bark, andes mint, Baking, candy, chocolate, Christmas, cocoa powder, cookies, creme de menthe, mint, Tchaikovsky, tradition
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