RECIPE: Robin’s Egg Cheesecake

For spring, we love a “robin’s egg” cake: a speckled exterior, garnished with some chocolate Easter eggs. Last year we made this Speckled Egg Malted Milk Egg Cake. This year, McCormick sent us a speckled cheesecake recipe, developed by Amanda Rettke of I Am Baker. For step-by-step photos and a video, visit Amanda’s recipe page.…
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TIP OF THE DAY: One-Pan Main & Side (Lamb & Zucchini)

Our pots and pans don’t go into the dishwasher: They need to be hand-washed. While hot sudsy water and a Scrub Daddy do the job, we wouldn’t overlook the opportunity to save our manicure. So we were all ears when Good Eggs sent us this recipe to cook the main and the side in one…
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RECIPE: Carrot Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

[1] and [2] Mini carrot cupcakes are a lighter version of dense carrot cake. Here’s the recipe (photos © Kraft). [2] These carrot cupcakes have a pinch of ginger and spiced cream cheese frosting. Here’s the recipe. [3] Shred extra carrots and add them to a salad (photo © Stylepresso). [4] Lactose intolerant? Use Green…
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Overnight Breakfast & Brunch Casseroles: Cinnamon Buns & Blueberry Muffins

February 21st is National Sticky Bun Day. Sticky buns and cinnamon rolls were the biggest treat of our childhood breakfasts: Better than waffles or pancakes. The Horn & Hardart Automat, Americas’s first fast food chain, had such popular items that customers clamored to take them home. They set up a retail arm to package and…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make Easter Eggs Filled With Cake!

Steph of The Cupcake Project created a recipe called How to Make Cupcakes in Egg Shells. But, if you decorate the eggs before serving, you have Easter Egg Surprise: an egg with cake inside. It’s fun and memorable: Most people won’t have seen anything like it. Here’s the recipe. We took it one step further,…
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