Tonight I’m having dinner at a friend’s house, and since she’s doing the cooking I offered to bring something to share. She said how about desert? …Perfect! I can totally handle that. I decided brownies were in order. And while I don’t mind regular from the box brownies, I thought I’d try my hand at [...]
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Last weekend I went to an apple orchard with a group of friends. Since then I’ve been searching for a great recipe (or two) to make with all the apples I picked. I tried an apple crisp earlier this week, but it called for lemon juice. While it looked good, I could only taste Lemon [...]
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So the big day finally arrived on Sunday. It was time to make the Princess Cake. I made two recipes of the Yellow Cake from earlier. Three layers were 8 inch rounds, and one was baked in a bowl to make the rounded top of the skirt. Then I made a double recipe of buttercream [...]
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I started out the day intending to open a jar of spaghetti sauce and make some meatballs to dress it up a bit. Patricia continues to push me to make more things from scratch, so when I told her my plan she of course was opposed. She told me I could make the sauce myself. [...]
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Every time I pass a candy store I’m tempted to go in and pick out a treat. Usually if I give in and pick something out, I get some toffee. So I decided I would try to make some for myself. Below is the recipe I used, though I would cut back a bit on [...]
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