RECIPE: Warm Spinach Mascarpone Dip

Among our Eatin’ O’ The Green recipes for St. Patrick’s Day, this warm spinach dish is very popular. Who doesn’t love a spinach dip, with its glimmer of healthful green spinach blended into a creamy (and not so healthful) base? This recipe, from Vermont Creamery,is made even richer with mascarpone. It’s delicious as a kick-back…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Marzipan Cupcake Decorations

Just in time for St. Pat’s. Photo © Sprinkles Cupcakes.   Marzipan as a cake decoration goes back hundreds of years. It was so popular as a confection, it was used for centuries in Europe to cover wedding cakes, or to create the decorations that topped conventional frostings. But times change, and there’s less marzipan…
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RECIPE: Upside Down Irish Whiskey Cake

Irish whiskey cake: an upside down apple cake with a mascarpone filling. Photo courtesy Betty Crocker.   This cake was originally pitched to us as a holiday fruitcake—an upside-down apple cake with whiskey-soaked fruit. But we liked the idea of it for St. Patrick’s Day as well. The recipe, from Betty Crocker, was developed with…
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