ENTERTAINING: Haunted Castle Bundt Cake

There’s one sure way to make a haunted house disappear: Get some forks and call some friends. Photo courtesy of Sur La Table. Hey, guys, gals and ghouls: Take one of our favorite Bundt pans, the Castle Bundt, and turn it into a haunted castle with some simple decoration. The Bundt pan is available at…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Stony Brook Cookie Company

If you live in the vicinity of Geneva, New York, you can pop into the Stony Brook Bakery for warm, fresh-from-the-oven cookies. The rest of us have to order them by mail—slightly less warm, but sent fresh from the oven and arriving as delicious as if you’d baked them yourself (or as grandma baked them,…
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PRODUCT: WannaHavaCookie Gourmet Whoopie Pies

With 15 different cake and filling combinations to choose from, it’s impossible not to love these whoopie pies. The whoopie pie, actually a sandwich cookie, is attributed to an unknown Pennsylvania Amish woman, who first conceived of sandwiching two round, mound-shaped pieces of chocolate cake with vanilla frosting. As the story is variously told, the…
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