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I’ve been looking for a simple chocolate cake recipe, so that I could begin to avoid the convenience of box cake mixes without making my life too complicated, and something delightful happened. I found a simple chocolate cake recipe, yes, but even better: this cake is one of the best chocolate cakes I have ever [...]
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I made this pecan pie for Thanksgiving, and for Christmas I am going to make 2! Sorry pumpkin pie, but you’re going to have to share the spotlight with my new favorite pie, which is almost more of a tart - and well, you know how I feel about tarts: cherry cream cheese, plum with [...]
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Despite its name, you really don’t taste the cream cheese in this crust. Instead, the cream cheese lends a richness to the flavor, and the crust is flaky and light.
Butter - 8 Tblsp. (1 stick) - cold and cut into slices or cubes
All-purpose flour - 1 cup plus 2 Tblsp.
Salt - 1/4 tsp.
Cream cheese - [...]
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I like recipes where you do just a little bit of preparation the night before and the ingredients do most of the work while you’re sleeping. This is one of those recipes, and the results are amazingly delicious for such a little bit of effort. All you have to do is put frozen rolls in [...]
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Even though I’ve made a few cakes and a bread in a Crock-Pot, it still seems like a gamble to me, and perhaps that is part of the excitement. The Triple Chocolate Mess Cake in a Crock-Pot is easily one of the most popular posts on this blog, and so I thought I’d follow up [...]
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Apparently pumpkin and chocolate have been carrying on for quite a while and I didn’t know about it. They make a great pair, and this cake offers a delicious combination of slightly spicy pumpkin with chips of chocolate interspersed throughout. It’s a simple bundt cake with no frosting, so the taste of the 2 main [...]
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If there is such a thing as a tart binge, I’ve been on one, as evidenced by cherry cream cheese tartlettes, a plum cream cheese tart, an apple custard tart (that wasn’t blogged because the way I made the crust could not be recommended), and this one, a simple rustic apple tart, the simplest [...]
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It’s fall, definitely. Just last week I posted a Summer Harvest soup, and now summer seems so long ago. Here in Chicago, the days are suddenly much shorter, there’s dry dead leaves swirling everywhere as the wind blows in the new season, and there are pumpkins piled up in front of all the grocery [...]
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This is a rich and simple sheet cake, with the zucchini, pineapple and coconut balancing perfectly in taste and texture. The frosting is creamy and just sweet enough; I topped with chopped walnuts for crunch.
I don’t usually follow recipes so faithfully, but this one, from Tasty Kitchen seemed perfect as is — and it was… [...]
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This is a fairly easy flat bread that you can flavor with any herb. I used basil because I have so much of it in my garden, but you could easily substitute oregano, parsley or dill. I used fresh, but dried probably works well too. It’s a delicious, soft, slightly chewy bread with just a [...]
