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Maple Guinness Bacon Cupcakes are my contribution to the bacon craze. Its a salty and sweet combination with a light bacon-flavored buttercream and the bacon bits adding texture to the batter. The Guinness adds a rich deep flavor, offsetting the
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These peanut butter squares are the Hubby’s favorite square. They are smooth and creamy and have become one of my favorites too. The Rocky Road version is nothing to sneeze at either. These squares are not only super yummy, but
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When you need something chocolatey and comforting, chocolate chewy meringue cookies are the cookies to make. They are one of my all-time favorite cookies. You get that chew from the meringue, the rich chocolate taste from the cocoa, and they
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I’m not a super huge fan of cookies, but I do go through phases of craving them and monster cookies are at the top of my list when it comes to wanting a cookie. I love a crunchy texture and
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Fresh fruit is now showing up at the farmers’ markets and one of the fruits in season is apricots. I didn’t want to make my usual crisp and decided on an apricot cobbler. A quick look-see showed a recipe for
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I adore lemon bars. They are so bright and refreshing and make the perfect summer dessert. I found a lemon bars (with shortbread crust) recipe on Sally’s Baking Addiction. The only change I made was to add some culinary lavender
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I was going to make some berry muffins with streusel topping, but had some bananas I was going to make into banana bread.v So I mashed the two ideas and since when making muffins, it’s go big or go home,
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Rhubarb is starting to be plentiful in the stores and our tiny new rhubarb plant isn’t near ready to harvest. So that means the start of rhubarb everything. I recently made a rhubarb cream pie and just tried another old-school
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Apple betty, apple crisp, apple crumble, this old school, delicious dessert is not only easy to make, but loved by all. I had some apples that were at the end of their lifespan, and I really didn’t want to throw
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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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