Category: Cookies-Cake-Pastry

RECIPE: Strawberry Shortcake – Tiramisu Fusion

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[1] Today’s recipe: an Italian spin on strawberry shortcake (photo courtesy King Arthur Flour). [2] You can buy strawberries year-round, but summer strawberries are (no surprise) the sweetest (photo courtesy California Strawberries). A traditional strawberry shortcake combines strawberry, whipped cream and biscuits. It might have been a way to use leftover biscuits (photo courtesy Driscoll’s…
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Two Stout Recipes: French Toast Chocolate Stout Cake

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Following our recent recipes for Chocolate Cheesecake Stout Pops and a Chocolate Stout Float, we have stout for breakfast (French toast) and stout for dessert (a rich chocolate cake). Why stout? Stout is more popular in recipes than other beers because its more robust flavor carries through in the cooked recipe. Here are the history…
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FOOD FUN: Lumberjack Cake

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This impressive Lumberjack Cake was created by Elizabeth Marek of Artisan Cake Company of Portland, Oregon, and author of Visual Guide to Cake Decorating. Another of her works of art is the Lumberjack Cake, inspired by her husband, who chopped down their Christmas tree in a lumberjack jacket. Jenny Keller of Jenny Cookies Bakeshop in…
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RECIPE: Strawberry-Rhubarb Bars With Cream Cheese Frosting

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Strawberry rhubarb bars, ready for dessert or a cup of tea (photo © Adore Foods). Strawberry and rhubarb, spring produce for a spring food holiday (photo © Dessert First Girl).   June 10th is National Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie Day. (There are more rhubarb holidays, including January 23rd, National Rhubarb Pie Day, and October, National Rhubarb Month.)…
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RECIPE: Peanut Butter Pretzel Brownies

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[1] Peanut Butter Pretzel Brownies (photo © Bake Or Break via Go Bold With Butter). [2] Brownies just might be our favorite finger food (photo by Katharine Pollack | © THE NIBBLE).   Sweet and salty treats and desserts have been a hot combination for a decade or so, beginning with salted chocolate and salted…
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