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Banana Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting: comfort cakes
Banana cupcakes with peanut butter frosting and honey-roasted peanut topping. Raise your hand if this sounds good. *raises her hand* I’ve been a fan of the banana/PB combo since time immemorial – or...
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Beyond Greek yogurt – a baker’s secret.
High-rising, whole wheat blueberry muffins… Light, tender whole-grain pancakes… Ooey-gooey buttermilk cake… What do all of these treats have in common? Give up? The answer is… Liquid whey. See that...
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Gluten-Free Lemon-Berry Shortcakes: Peeking in on Summer
There is a wonderful Norwegain book that I read with my children about three sisters who go out to pick strawberries for their mother. The girls run, giggling, out into the meadow; a picnic basket...
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Strawberry Cream on Shortbread: crunchy, creamy, (in)credible
Mousse. No, not the stuff you put in your hair. And surely not the large, antlered animal drivers here in northern New England worry about meeting some dark night on the road. I’m talking mousse, as...
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Elvis has left the building. But the cake’s still here.
Did you know that Elvis’ favorite cake, one he enjoyed on his birthday AND at Christmas every year, was vanilla pound cake? I grew up loving chocolate cake. Still do. But over the years I’ve also...
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Citrus Surprise Grapefruit Cake: Surprise! It’s 100% Whole Wheat!
Ah, the giddy days in the kitchen. You know the ones, where you suddenly see Al Pacino’s face in your morning toast, or you sing “Heard It Through the Grapevine” while measuring out your raisins...
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Strawberry Rhubarb Icebox Cake: now THAT’s stacked with flavor
By now, you probably know of our deep and abiding love for Vanilla Dream cookies. They’ve shown up in blogs, on Facebook, and have spawned plenty of spin-off recipes (see Chocolate Dreams). Most of...
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Lemon Meringue Cupcakes: Pie baker or cupcake maker: Where do you fit in?
So, did the title of the blog get you riled up? No worries, I’ve no intention of starting a turf war nor am I trying to stick labels on anyone. I was just pondering the other day where I fall in the...
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Apple Spice Whoopie Pies: apple pie à la mobile
While I do so love a good apple pie, it isn’t really my favorite thing to bake. I’m much more of a cake gal myself, especially if said cake involves lots of creamy buttercream filling and icing. Bring...
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Pumpkin Doughnuts: BAKED to perfection
If you’re going to bake just ONE THING this month (or this week, or today – choose your preferred frequency)… Let it be these pumpkin-cinnamon doughnuts. As a test baker here at King Arthur Flour, I...
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Easy Cake Pudding: a deep, dark secret…
You know what the best parts of baking are? First, imagining the final product when you’re reading a recipe. And second, imagining the final product when there’s NO recipe – when you’re playing the...
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Nantucket Cranberry Cake: seize the season
PLOP! The sound of cranberry sauce being dropped from its can onto a serving plate. “Ahhhhh….” The sound of an appreciative dessert-lover enjoying a bite of buttery, tender, tart-sweet cranberry cake....
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Boston Cream Pie: classic Sunday dinner dessert
Here in the King Arthur Flour test kitchen we often get folks poking their head in the door, asking quite literally, “What’s cookin’?” The responses to what we’re making that day can range from “Yeah,...
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*The icing on the Baking Sheet cake: Swiss buttercream and a new DVD
The right recipe, the one that knocks people’s socks off and gets requested by 3 out of 5 diners, can be hard to come by. Bakers and cooks everywhere have their own arsenal, library, cache, toolbox, or...
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Turkey Cake: Gotta hand it to the kids
Given my penchant for mismatched socks, funky earrings, and Mickey Mouse, it usually doesn’t surprise folks to learn I was a preschool and kindergarten teacher for many years before coming to King...
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Caribbean Rum Cake: Bring the islands home to your house
What is it about the tropics that makes people so relaxed? Everything proceeds at a much slower and more civilized pace. Wound-up businessmen trade ties for tan lines, and harried mavens literally let...
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Brooklyn-Style Cheesecake: the dairy, dairy best
“WOW… This is the best cheesecake I’ve ever tasted.” – Halley, my boss. “This is really good. In fact, I think it’s the best cheesecake I’ve ever had.” – Jeff, my co-worker. “Hey, this cheesecake is...
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Christmas Upside-Down Cake: turn over a new holiday tradition
There’s Christmas fruitcake. And then there’s Christmas fruit cake. The difference a single space between two words can make is nowhere more evident than here. Fruitcake, bane of many a lame joke...
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Gluten-Free Lava Cakes: I DO mean to burst your chocolate bubble!
There’s something about warm chocolate melting inside a moist, dark, rich cake that never seems to go out of style. For years it has been a regular on dessert menus standing alongside its only...
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“The Baking Sheet” newsletter: baking, writing, LEARNING
A beginner baker in a world full of experts. That’s how I felt starting my first day working for “The Baking Sheet,” our print newsletter, last January. Little did I know I would spend most of my year...
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