RECIPE: Oreo Peppermint Truffles

No baking required! (photo © Bella Baker)   For someone whose favorite ice cream flavor is Mint Cookie, these peppermint Oreo truffles were calling our name. This no-bake recipe produces a ball similar to a cake pop. No sticks are needed, but you can add them if you like (if you want to make pops,…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Decorate Christmas Cupcakes

Deck the cupcakes! Photo of Perfect Endings cupcakes courtesy Williams-Sonoma.   Today’s tip is inspired by these delicious cupcakes from Perfect Endings, a Napa Valley bakery that sells them online via WilliamsSonoma.com. You can buy or bake and frost your own cupcakes, then decorate them with festive elements. It’s a fun family activity. Consider: Chocolate…
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GIFT: Port Jammers, A Should-Be Holiday Classic

Dorrie Greenspan, baker extraordinaire and cookbook author, is one of our baking heroes. We’re excited about her newly opened cookie boutiques, Beurre & Sel, in New York City. For the holidays, Dorrie has created a more sophisticated version of her popular Classic Jammers: Port Jammers, pairing Fonsecta Bin 27 ruby port with classic French sablés,*…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Bake Shortbread Cookies

If you only bake one type of cookie this season, bake shortbread. Buttery cookies beloved by both children and adults, shortbread is accessible yet sophisticated. Dipped into chocolate, the cookie becomes even more beloved. Serve them to guests, keep the stash for yourself, give it as gifts. This particular recipe, from GoBoldWithButter.com, a website of…
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GIFT: Cupcake Of The Month Club

What we want for Christmas: Yummy Cupcake’s Cupcake Of The Month Club. Photo by GG Merkel | THE NIBBLE.   At the top of our favorite cupcakes list are Yummy Cupcakes, a Los Angeles bakery that we‘re lucky hasn’t opened up down the block from us. Otherwise, we’d be creating a new 12-step program: Cupcake…
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