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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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Because coffee was our April ingredient, I thought it important to tackle a dessert that brought out the wonderful taste of coffee (coffee flavored cake whilst drinking coffee? Yes, please!) I found this recipe from PW, and decided that it …

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You may or may not know that I usually don’t do banana. Not because I don’t like them – I do like a banana now and then! I just subscribe to the idea that one should eat locally sourced produce, …

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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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March’s Food Network Magazine is the chocolate issue. Jeff brought it to me at work, which meant that it went around the cubes, and landed in the hands of Jasmine. Whose birthday happened to be last week. So she marked …

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For Christmas, my boss got me this Breville mini-pie maker. This past weekend I finally got to use it to make mini apple pies. I’d never made an apple pie from scratch (or any dessert pie, for that matter!) and …

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So all of you may know that being gluten free can be easier at some moments, and difficult at others. For example, meals at home can be adapted, where restaurants quickly become tricky territory. And bakeries? Unless they’re gluten free …

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A few weeks ago we had a bake off for work, but I didn’t have much time to get my recipes together, nor did I have the time to make some elaborate, fancy baked good (read: outrageous brownies.) I wasn’t …

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This month, Rebecca and I decided we would make pumpkin cake balls for our coworkers and our work Halloween party! Emeril seemed to have a pretty great pumpkin cake recipe, so we used his for the cake: 1 cup plus …

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When your roommate asks for cookies, obviously, you make her cookies. A few weeks ago, we were having a not so good day at the Cottage (aka my apartment). Cookies were very necessary. I scoured the intermet looking for the …

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