Category: Cookies-Cake-Pastry

RECIPE: Make A Creamy Cannoli Pie

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Like cannolis? You can enjoy the same creamy ricotta filling and chocolate chips—baked into a pie. Enjoy this recipe, courtesy Eagle Brand condensed milk. If you want to add the crunch of a cannoli shell, add pieces of sugar cones to the pie filling. Ingredients 1 nine-inch unbaked pie shell at room temperature (we prefer…
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Red, White & Blue Grilled Angel Food Cake Recipe & The Original Fanny Farmer Recipe

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You can grill more than fruit for dessert. Have you ever grilled cake? While the grill is hot, toss on slices of pound cake or angel food cake. Serve them with grilled fruit and whipped cream or ice cream. Here’s an easy red, white & blue dessert for July 4th, courtesy of McCormick: Grilled Angel…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Host A Pie Baking Contest

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It’s [pie] party time! Photo by JaclynNussbaum | THE NIBBLE.   Looking for a summer entertaining idea? How about a pie baking contest? Guests who can bake can show off their chops; non-baking guests will be thrilled to taste a pie buffet. You can go freestyle, or take advantage of this new boxed kit: Pie…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: German Chocolate Cake

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German Chocolate Cake has a coconut-pecanfilling and frosting. Photo © H.D. Connelly |Fotolia.   Today is National German Chocolate Cake Day—a day we don’t mind celebrating in the least. German Chocolate Cake is a chocolate layer cake filled and topped with a coconut pecan frosting. The cake has nothing to do with Germany. It is…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Decorate With Fondant

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Use fondant to make cupcakes that looklike Dad. Photo courtesy WhiptCream.com.   If you’ve been to enough weddings, you’ve probably had fondant. It’s used to cover cake, as an alternative to icing. What is fondant? Sometimes referred to as edible Play-Doh, fondant is a sugar and water mixture cooked to the soft-ball stage, then stirred…
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