Category: Great Food

A Year Of Cupcake Holidays & More Cupcake Fun

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[1] Our favorite from Junior’s: the retro “Hostess cupcake” with a creme center (photo by Katharine Pollak | © THE NIBBLE). Here’s a recipe to make your own. [2] The first of numerous Hostess Brands snack cakes (photo © Hostess Cakes). [3] Something more conventional: a cupcake with blackberry frosting and a fresh blackberry (photo…
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HALLOWEEN: Food Fun With Pancake Molds

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Get ready for Halloween: For a bewitching breakfast, lunch or dinner on Halloween, go batty with pancake molds. A Williams-Sonoma exclusive, they’re easy to use. The set of three molds—these adorable bats plus a pumpkin and a haunted house—is $19.95. Pancakes—also known as flapjacks, griddlecakes and hotcakes—are an ancient food. While some type of griddle…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make Regular Or Sugar-Free Sorbet

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It’s easy to make sugar-free sorbet. Photo by Dusan Zidar | BSP. There’s a lot of good “No Sugar Added” ice cream out there, but it’s tough to find a sugar-free sorbet. If you’re on a sugar-free diet and miss sorbet, you can make it with unsweetened fruit juice or puréed fruit. Sugar or no…
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CHEESE: Piave Vecchio

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It’s Columbus Day, so let’s celebrate a great Italian cheese. Here’s a favorite cheese of professional cheese buyer and guest blogger Jeff Shearer, of Mandi Foods: As the long summer days turn over to the cooler nights of autumn, our food choices move away from the fresh cheeses and lighter dishes to more of the…
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