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We made these last year, and they are delicious and beautiful, so we wanted to share again – we hope you’re cozy and baking with your loved ones this holiday season! Originally posted on December 16, 2013. ***** In my …

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We can’t stop sharing cookies with you. We’re sorry, but not that sorry, because it’s the Christmas season which means cookies. It’s the one time a year that making four kinds of cookies in one weekend isn’t considered crazy….right?! These …

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I’m only a recent convert to the fabulous religion of tapioca. I don’t know if it was the seven-year tastebud change-over, or the fact that I had only ever heard tapioca pudding in reference to hospital food and never gave …

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With the holidays around the corner, we can all acknowledge that sweets and spirits are slowly taking over our days. Between the cookies, candy canes, and holiday parties supplying free libations we may be losing sight of some of our …

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In my house at Christmas, there are several cookies to be made – usually gingerbread, Italian spice cookies, chocolate chip cookies, anginette cookies, and of course, chocolate pixies. These cookies are some of my favorites – they are chocolate cookies, …

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Who cooks out of cookbooks anymore now that we have this crazy thing called the Internet? Oh wait. I do. Here is how to make an easy and tasty no bake dessert! The trick was not to have loose flour …

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How do you tackle baking for the blogger on her birthday? It’s not an easy task, but it sure was fun! Step One: Send her a really weird email like the following: “In a hypothetical situation where you were to …

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Update: We have a new and improved version of this tutorial! Go here. Happy Valentine’s Day! One year ago, Jessica sent Mary and I this blog post by I Am Baker for a photo shoot about hearts in weird places. This totally qualifies. …

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I’d like to start a new kind of post on our site, for recipes that either just didn’t hit it or didn’t explain the recipe enough. I’m sure you’ve all been there before: in the kitchen, recipes ready, ingredients in …

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July’s challenges included one of us in school full time and the other with a broken finger, so we only managed to get around to one of our three proposed recipes. For Paul’s birthday, I figured we could do cupcakes, …

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