Category: Food Holidays

FOOD FUN: Strawberry Cake Pops

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Strawberry-themed cake pops. You can use any flavor of cake that you like. Photo courtesy Bella Baker.   February 27th is National Strawberry Day. What better activity than to make these luscious strawberry cake pops from Lauryn Cohen of BellaBaker.com. If you’ve never made cake pops but think they’d fit in with family and entertaining,…
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RECIPE: Strawberry Salsa As A Sauce Or A Salsa

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How about something special for National Strawberry Day (February 27th): strawberry salsa. In addition to serving with tortilla chips, strawberry salsa is delicious over grilled chicken, fish or pork. This recipes was adapted from TasteOfHome.com. You can customize it by adding other fruits to the strawberries. Mango, grapes, pineapple, pomegranate arils and stone fruits are…
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Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Recipe For National Banana Bread Day

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[1] Banana bread with chocolate chips and nuts. We highly recommend the optional chocolate glaze in the recipe (not shown) (photo © Lulu Durand | iStock Photo). [2] Don’t want chocolate chips or nuts? How about blueberries? Here’s the recipe from Driscoll’s (photo © Driscoll’s). [3] Fancy banana bread: baked in a rectangular pan, topped…
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Best Cherry Pie Recipe For National Cherry Pie Day

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[1] This cherry pie gets a fancy lattice top (photo © Cherry Marketing Institute). [2] Mom’s cherry pie (photo © Eric Hood | iStock Photo). [3] How artistic are you? This pie has an extra-special crust fashioned by Carey Nershi (photo © Carey Not Carrie | Vermont Creamery). [4] Look for pitted cherries in water,…
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FOOD FUN: Green Tea Fortune Cookie Cake Recipe

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At last: an idea to repurpose the fortune cookies that so many of us acquire from Chinese food take-out. This Green Tea layer cake is made by Baked NYC, one of the most popular bakeries in New York City. The cake has three almond white cake layers, frosted and filled with green tea buttercream. You…
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