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This rum cake was a fond memory of the Hubby’s and although I couldn’t find my mother-in-law’s Rum Cake recipe card, he did remember that it was from a newspaper clipping. So, with a bit of browsing, I was able
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Going through my recipes, I noticed that my recipe for Caramel Peanut Topped Brownie Cake was missing the cake recipe. This was a delicious cake! Very rich though, so you don’t need a huge slice.
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We went to the farmers market this weekend and I bought a dozen farm eggs. Only to get home and realize I still had 3 cartons to use. I then went on a search for a recipe that would use
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My usual go-to for using up old bananas is banana bread or banana muffins, but I wanted to kick it up a notch. I dug up Ina Garten’s banana cake recipe. It turned out wonderfully and I only added some
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For Easter dinner I had the inspiration (and craving) to make a Mounds Cake. Chocolate cake with heaps of coconut icing. I found a recipe for the icing on Sally’s Baking Addiction. I chose it as it seemed to make
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Due to the extraordinary year it’s been, my birthday was a very quiet affair. Where we are, things weren’t super locked down and we were able to have 2 couples over for a visit. I didn’t feel like doing a
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I love lemon desserts and so does a friend of ours, whose birthday was this month. Due to the whole quarantine situation we couldn’t celebrate in-person. As I knew she loved lemon sweets, I decided to make a lemon pound
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I don’t know why I wanted to make blueberry coffee cake, except for the fact that I wanted blueberries for dessert. It’s early blueberry season for and I have 2lbs of blueberries that are crying out to be eaten. Some
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So Christmas cake seems to be a must-have staple for the holidays. Unfortunately, it’s horrible. The main thing that ruins a Christmas cake are those nasty maraschino cherries and fruit. Followed closely by that even more nasty, sugary, crusted icing
Read moreSo last night was a quiet, yet fun New Years Evening with some friends. I made a roast, garlic chive mashed taters, peas, the most important food group of gravy, and the usual trimmings like pickles, olives, cheese, buns, etc.
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