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Small honey cake from The Exceptional Dessert, shown with a a jar of honey from Savannah Bee Company (a NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week, also certified kosher). Photo by Erika Meller | THE NIBBLE. The Jewish new year, Rosh Hashanah, begins on Friday at Sundown. If you need a gift or a treat, head…
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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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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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August is Brownies at Brunch Month. It may sound unusual, but who’s going to complain? You don’t have to serve fudgy chocolate brownies first thing in the morning. Try blondies, zucchini brownies and recipes with dried fruit. If you can’t bake up a fresh batch, consider the Cinnamon Blonde Sweeties from Sugardaddy’s Sumptuous Sweeties. They’re…
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Madeleines are small buttery cakes with a distinctive shell shape. This French delight is named for Mary Magdalen (the French name for Magdalen is Madeleine). Food historians believe that the recipe originated with nuns from a convent once dedicated to her, as nuns traditionally raised money by baking and selling sweets. Many people liken the…
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