RECIPE: Skeleton Gingerbread Cookies

[1] Try your hand at making skeletons WITH royal icing (photo © Grandma’s Molasses | Facebook. [2] Fresh ginger root is dried, then ground (photo © Silk Road Spice Merchant—which sells beautiful spices).   If you only use your gingerbread people cookie cutters for Christmas, you’re missing out on another holiday application: gingerbread skeletons for…
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FOOD FUN: Candy Corn Macarons

Dana’s Bakery makes delicious macarons; they’ve been a NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week, and a favorite gift we send to macaron lovers (the Macaron Of The Month Club is a luxurious gift for the connoisseur). The cookies are both tender and tantalizing, thanks to Dana’s eye for color and palate for flavor. We haven’t…
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HALLOWEEN: Trick Or Treat With Pumpkin Brownies

It will be a ghoulishly delightful change this Halloween when you serve Fairytale Brownies’ new Halloween brownies in Pumpkin Spice, with a Halloween label that features jack-o-lanterns and bats. Perfect for party favors, the individually wrapped, 3” x 3” dark chocolate brownies are also sold in bulk by the dozen, if you want to present…
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RECIPE: Halloween Or Thanksgiving Bundt Cake

The best seasonal bundt cake is a pumpkin bundt. Here are two versions, one for Halloween and one for Thanksgiving. You can use: A special Nordicware pumpkin bundt cake pan A single conventional bundt cake pan (for a shorter cake) Two conventional bundt cakes, to approximate the style of the specialty pumpkin bundt pan (it…
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RECIPE: Apple Streusel Bundt Cake

Remember the Tunnel Of Fudge Cake, a chocolate bundt cake with an inner circle of chocolate pudding? Here’s a sophisticated version for fall: a Bundt cake with a circle of apple streusel‡ (photos #4 and #5). Celebrate fall’s apple harvest with this apple Bundt recipe from Zulka, a family-owned business that makes premium sugar. National…
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