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Lemon Blueberry Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
As promised, I took another set of cupcakes for a test drive last weekend in preparation for my upcoming baby shower! I thought it would be appropriate to complement the chocolate peanut butter cupcakes with something very opposite. I chose Lemon Blueberry Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting because they seemed the perfect counterpart. Instead of rich and heavy, they are light and fresh! Pick your poison! (Oh, that actually makes me feel kind of glum when I consider the fact that sugar is actually poisoning us. #tryingnottothinkaboutit ) Well, moving on! My husband was my co-taste-tester. His memory is somewhat selective when it comes to trying my food. If he…
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Ina’s Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting
Do you ever experience recipe overwhelm? Like, how many different ways are there to make chocolate cupcakes? Obviously, as a certified Type A lunatic, I envision myself finding 20 recipes and testing them all side by side because I want to be sure I found the best one. How can you just randomly point your finger into the ether and choose a cupcake recipe if you haven’t taste-tested it alongside all its competitors? (Maybe you’ve seen the Crate and Barrel commercial with Reese Witherspoon testing cranberry sauce recipes? So relatable.) Most recently, I wanted to find, as I mentioned above, a great chocolate cupcake recipe. I searched the internet as…
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Snowball Cookies
It’s about that time of year again when I throw caution to the wind and forget all my resolutions to eat and be healthy and refocus my attention on cookies instead. It’s the time when I indulge in nostalgia and buy extra sugar, flour, and butter, casually forgetting how I told myself maybe it would be best not to have much of these things in the house. When the holidays roll around, all bets are off. (And I’m easily swayed by the manipulative world of the Food Network telling me that eating indulgent food will improve the quality of my life.) We kicked off the season with this recipe for…
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Chocolate Peppermint Ganache Cookies
The holiday season has officially begun, and even though we likely all overate this week5, today is nevertheless a day when I feel like celebrating by breaking a few rules. I try pretty hard all year, but no matter what I tell myself, I know that at Christmas, I will feel slightly cheated if I don’t get to enjoy making and eating a few cookies with a bunch of butter and sugar. Not “breakfast cookies,” not “date-sugar” cookies, not “sneak-in-a-vegetable” cookies, just regular old nostalgic Christmas cookies. BUT! Since this is to be treated as a celebration and a rare occurrence, when I do make some naughty cookies, they have to…
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Bobby Flay’s Banana Bread
Mmmm….. I promise I do make other foods besides bread, but I’ll be damned if bread isn’t at the top of my favorites list. Every bread from toasted pita chips to chewy bagels, whole grain toast, muffins, potato rolls, King’s Hawaiian, garlic bread, ciabatta, croissants, crackers, pizza crust, and, of course, one of the world’s most beloved breads, the banana bread.
