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HCB: Golden Lemon Almond Cake

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See the pretty cake? You can send many thanks to my main chica Jenn at Knitty Baker .  Go on, visit her and leave a message and tell her how great she is because that beautiful picture up above, I owe it to her. I’ll wait.[...]

Golden Carrot Cake with White Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting

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I really don’t know if this will count towards my Heavenly Cake bake-a-long.  Mainly because I adapted so much of this recipe at the end, I feel like I actually ended up doing something totally different than the original.[...]

Sweet Kitchen Tips 28

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Here are a couple of tips that I learned while making the pot-pie on the last post.  Some also work well when top-crust-only fruit pies. Who wants soggy dough? Safe to say - no one.  And since we know that steam makes pot pie[...]

Bahamian Rum Cake

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I’m cheating.  I’m supposed to be posting my free choice from my Heavenly Cake Baker club. This is not it. Instead, I have wanted to make this cake for a while now.  It has been marked in the cookbook for ages[...]

GCC: Menu 30 - Chicken Pot Pie

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I think our fellow Raymond is reminiscing a bit his childhood with the options he has given us while hosting this months Gutsy Cook menus.  Not that I mind one bit.  Seriously, who can say no to chicken pot pie? I usually[...]

HCB: Southern (Manhattan) Coconut Cake with Silk Meringue Buttercream

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I’m going to make this post short and sweet, because guys I’m exhausted. I mean like really, really worn-out. My new job, which I love, is really taking a lot out of me, not only mentally but physically as well.  I come[...]

GCC: Menu 29 - Coronation Chicken Rolls

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I have three words for all you guys: MAKE THIS RECIPE! This was one of our two options for the Gutsy Cook club this week. Since I knew that we had a beach day planned this past Sunday, I figure this would be the perfect dish to take and[...]

ABC: Zebra Cookies

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We are back to our monthly ABC choice.  This time it was cookies.  Out of all the desserts out there cookies are not high on my list of likes (not like fruit desserts), unlike Tom and the little man that love them. Since we been[...]

HCB: Karmel Cake

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As I write this, I’m having the last piece of this cake. Yep, we finish this off already.  It’s that good. I got to be honest, when I saw this recipe in the book; I was not “wowed” by it at all.  It just[...]

Salted Butter Break-ups [my version]

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After cooking for more than thirty years, I’m still amazed how some of the most simple and unpretentious ingredients can come together and yield something amazing. Case in point… Tomatoes, Basil, Garlic plus Olive Oil = the[...]