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  • Recipe New York - Style Crumb Cake ( slightly adapted from Cooks Illustrated)
    New York - Style Crumb Cake ( slightly adapted from Cooks Illustrated)
    If you love Crumb Cake, I've found one you've got to try! The cake itself is soft and tender, from using cake flour and buttermilk, and the crumb topping is crisp, but not too hard and definitely does not have a sandy texture. It's just delicious[...]
  • Recipe Beautiful, Creamy Strawberry Cream Cake, from America's Test Kitchen/Cook's Illustrated
    Beautiful, Creamy Strawberry Cream Cake, from America's Test Kitchen/Cook's Illustrated
    Strawberries... beautiful, red, juicy and sweet little gems... I love them so.  I live in the Salinas Valley (California) where Driscoll berries grow in fields that are part of my daily commute. My local farm stand, "The Farm", [...]
  • Recipe Chocolate-Chip Oatmeal Cookies with Pecans and Dried Cranberries (slightly adapted from Cook's Illustrated)
    Chocolate-Chip Oatmeal Cookies with Pecans and Dried Cranberries (slightly adapted from Cook's Illustrated)
    Oh my, are these cookies ever good! I made them this past week end and my husband and I both couldn't stay out of them! I love oatmeal cookies any way, but these are the best I've ever eaten. Of course, coming from Cook's Illustrated, there were[...]
  • Recipe Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars (Cook's Illustrated) -- a tasty excuse to use my  "DEMY Digital Recipe Reader"
    Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars (Cook's Illustrated) -- a tasty excuse to use my "DEMY Digital Recipe Reader"
    Hey! I'm back to blogging in "real time"!  I made these cookie bars a couple of hours ago.  I have two men who are both tall and thin, and they love cookies.  I bookmarked this recipe from Cook's Illustrated a few weeks[...]
  • Recipe The Journey
    The Journey
    There are several food magazines I like reading, but the one that best suits my personality is Cook?s Illustrated . The recipes always work, there are no ads and I find the recipe-development chronicles fascinating. I am a recipe-development[...]
  • Recipe The Journey
    The Journey
    There are several food magazines I like reading, but the one that best suits my personality is Cook?s Illustrated . The recipes always work, there are no ads and I find the recipe-development chronicles fascinating. I am a recipe-development[...]
  • Recipe Coffeecake Muffins
    Coffeecake Muffins
    For as much as I love them, I make far too few muffins. When the urge to bake suddenly hit last week, I wanted to make something different, something I hadn’t made in awhile, and something that wouldn’t necessarily be a dessert[...]
  • Recipe Chewy Oatmeal-Raisin Cookies
    Chewy Oatmeal-Raisin Cookies
    So, in order to understand why I felt the urge to whip up oatmeal raisin cookies in the midst of holiday baking season, you’ll need to know  a little more about me. You already know that I love food and love to bake. And for the most[...]
  • Recipe Guilt-free German Chocolate Cake that tastes sinfully good! Yes, it's very possible
    Guilt-free German Chocolate Cake that tastes sinfully good! Yes, it's very possible
    To be truthful-- I'm a hard sell when I see a reduced-calorie recipe for cake. Somehow, "Reduced Fat" and "Cake" translates as an oxymoron to me.  I've made low-fat cookies and cakes, and I've not been impressed with the results. [...]
  • Recipe Congo Bars
    Congo Bars
    Happy December! Just 3 more weeks before Christmas..YaY!! :) ‘Tis the season for baking homemade cookies, cakes, pastries and bars; my head is spinning with Holiday recipes that I would like to try this month and of course, I’ll  post it[...]



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