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The Hubby’s birthday cake is traditionally a devil’s food cake mix with his mother’s fluffy pudding icing. This year, I left it until the last minute and realized I didn’t have a cake mix on hand, so I went searching for
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I was looking for a recipe for monster cookies that flattened out, yet were still chewy, and I found a great recipe on A Sassy Spoon. The only changes I made were in the additions. Instead of just chocolate pieces,
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I wanted to make something besides the usual pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving and saw a recipe for pumpkin cheesecake in a Better Homes & Gardens Pumpkin Recipes magazine. When I was reading the recipe, I was a little skeptical on
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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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Poppyseed chiffon cake is an old-fashioned recipe and I discovered it when my mother-in-law made it years ago. It’s like an angel food cake that has been glammed up and was one of my favourite desserts that she made. Poppyseed
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This delectable chocolate coffee ice cream is from Nigella Lawson’s No-Churn Coffee Ice Cream and is ridiculously easy to make. I put a twist on it, using chocolate sweet and condensed milk. I have a small addiction to the Keg’s
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As I had a few bananas that were perfect for banana bread, it was time to whip up another loaf. But as the Hubby is a huge chocolate lover, I wanted to do a chocolate banana loaf. I found this
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I love pumpkin pie for the holidays, but being lactose intolerant means that I have to take the time to make homemade lactose-free sweet and condensed milk. To keep the work to a minimum this time, I looked up a
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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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The Hubby loves caramel popcorn and I’m quite the fan myself. (I usually like a good salted buttery popcorn instead.) We were at the farmers market today and I pointed out the bags of caramel popcorn to him. He commented
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