Easy Shortcake Recipe, With Any Fruit You Like

[1] Easy peach shortcake: Slice the fruit, top a biscuit half with it and add whipped cream (photo © Kraft). [2] Americans are more familiar with the French-style génoise (zhen-WOZ), a strawberry shortcake that’s a sponge layer cake with whipped cream. Here’s the recipe for this cake (photo © Fun Cooking).   Sweet summer berries…
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PRODUCT: Pamela’s Figgies & Jammies Are Better Than Fig Newtons

It you like Fig Newtons—or wish you liked them more—there’s a better “Newton” in town. (The history of Fig Newtons and more Newton content follows below. It’s called Figgies & Jammies and the cookies are from Pamela’s Products, maker of delicious gluten-free cookies, bars and mixes. The flavors include: Mission Fig Blueberry & Fig Raspberry…
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Banana Split History & Recipes For National Banana Split Day

Yesterday for National Ice Cream Month we featured the “new” ice cream sandwich, a sandwich/sundae fusion. Today, it’s the “new” banana split in the photo: freed from its roots. The traditional banana split is a type of ice cream sundae made in a long dish called a boat (hence the alternate term, banana boat). The…
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