RECIPE: Hazelnut Praline Cake

“Hazelnuts make the best desserts,” says one of our favorite food bloggers, Vicky of Stasty.com. I feel like a lot of desserts are almond based, and poor old hazelnuts never get a look in. Hazelnuts are more complex and work well in both sweet and savoury dishes. “This is a different kind of cake than…
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FOOD FUN: Make This Oreo Layer Cake Or Ice Cream Cake Recipe

If you eat the filling from an Oreo separately from the cookie, will you do the same with this cake? Meant to emulate a giant Oreo cookie, you can make this recipe from Kraft as is, with a creamy filling, or turn it into an ice cream cake with Oreo ice cream. You can make…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Miniature Peanut Butter Cups

Add flavor and flair to your favorite baked goods and desserts with miniature peanut butter cups. These peanut butter nuggets are great for baking or garnishing. They’re not traditional peanut butter cups, in that there’s no chocolate enrobing the PB. What they are is peanut butter chips shaped like miniature peanut butter cups. They’re a…
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RECIPE: Mini Mice Cookies

We love these meeses to pieces. Photo courtesy CalRaisins.org.   These mini mice cookies are “no eek, no squeek,” say the folks at California Raisins. MINI MICE COOKIES Ingredients For 24 Cookies 3 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter 3/4 cup sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 egg 1/2…
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GLUTEN FREE: Among Friends Hand-Crafted Baking Mixes

Phil ‘Em Up combines chocolate chips and dried cranberries. Photo courtesy Among Friends Baking Mixes.   Our gluten-free products editor, Georgi Page, tastes lots of gluten-free baking mixes. We’re as happy as she is when she finds something she likes. One of the hardest things about being gluten-free has been the difficulty of not being…
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