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Individual Baked Alaskas

Individual Baked Alaskas Makes 6 Mini Baked Alaskas Ingredients: 6 brownie circles (homemade or store bought) cut out with a ...

Summer Memories Baking with my Grandma Etta Makes a Wonderful Throwback Thursday

In the summer time, as a little girl, I would stay with my grandma Etta and my grandpa Jack in their ...

Confessions of a Baker

I am going to make a confession to you and I am not even Catholic! Some years ago I entered a ...

The T-Rex Cake and the Lessons I Learned From that Dinosaur

When my daughter was quite young she was obsessed with dinosaurs. So I wanted to make her a dinosaur birthday cake, ...

To Paddle or Whip: that is the question

Ok. So you have a recipe and it says to "cream some butter with sugar" or "whip the cream with ...

Cream Puff Swans

Cream Puff Swans Makes approximately 16-18 swans Cream Puff Dough 1 cup water ½ cup unsalted butter 1 cup all-purpose ...

Hardware store or a baker’s paradise?

Did you ever wander through a hardware store, and see so many items that could be used in the kitchen? ...

Teaching egg whites how to relax…

In any meringue recipe, the recipe always calls for room temperature egg whites. Why, you might ask? Good question. This ...

Chocolate Éclairs Recipe

Chocolate Eclairs Makes approximately 24 éclairs Cream Puff Batter 1 cup water ½ cup unsalted butter 1 cup all-purpose flour ...

Chocolate Peanut Butter Tart Recipe

Makes 1 10-inch tart Crumb Crust: 2 cups chocolate cookie crumbs (any crème filled chocolate sandwich cookie will do, finely ...

Raspberry Linzer Torte Recipe

Raspberry Linzer Torte Makes 1 10 inch torte Linzer Dough 2 cups walnuts 1 cup cake scraps or other firm ...

Macarons (French Macaroons) Recipe

Macarons (French Macaroons) Makes about 60-65 macarons or about 30-32 sandwiched cookies 1 1/3 cups blanched, sliced almonds 2 cups ...

Coconut Macaroons Recipe

Coconut Macaroons Makes 2 ½ dozen macaroons 4 cups shredded, sweetened coconut 1 cup +1 tablespoon granulated sugar 1 heaping ...

Chewy Almond Macaroon Horseshoe Recipe

Chewy Almond Macaroon Horseshoes Makes about 20 cookies 2 8-ounce packages almond paste, crumbled into pieces 1 cup granulated sugar ...