VALENTINE’S DAY: Send A Cake To Your Valentine & To A Veteran

Send a gift to a loved one and a veteran. Photo courtesy Bake Me A Wish.   BakeMeAWish.com’s Valentine’s Day Freedom Cake is a Valentine gift with real meaning. When you send a cake to a loved one, Bake Me A Wish will also send a cake to a veteran in a VA Hospital in…
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RECIPE: Cherry Almond Rugelach

Cherry-themed recipes work both for Valentine’s Day (February 14th) and Washington’s Birthday (February 22nd, celebrated nationally on President’s Day, which falls this year on February 16th). National Rugelach Day is April 29th. There’s nothing better with a cup of tea or coffee than homemade rugelach. Try this recipe from QVC’s David Venable. The history of…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Heart Shaped Valentine Desserts

You’ve got time to plan a special heart-shaped Valentine dessert. We cruised through Amazon.com and found these heart-shaped pans and molds for inspiration: Heart-shaped bundt pan Heart-shaped cakelet pan, three-tiered individual cakes and more Heart-shaped 9″ cake pan Heart-shaped 10″ cake pan Heart-shaped donut pan Heart-shaped foil baking cups for cupcakes or custard Heart-shaped giant…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: Bake An Epiphany Cake

In France, the holiday season continues into January with the feast of the Epiphany on January 6th, the 12th day after Christmas. For the occasion, pastry shops are filled with galettes des rois, Epiphany cakes. (The name actually translates to kings’ cake; a galette is a flat pastry cake.) The cake is traditionally—more of an…
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RECIPE: Trois Crèmes Cake

In Mexico’s popular Pastel de Tres Leches or Tres Leches Cake, three forms of milk—condensed, evaporated and whole milk—are poured over a baked vanilla sponge cake to create a very moist comfort food. Here’s a Trois Crèmes Cake that uses crème fraîche three different ways for a much more sophisticated effect: a crème fraîche cake…
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