Cherry Meringue Slab Pie Recipe For Washington’s Birthday

Here’s our weekend baking project, a cherry dessert for George Washington’s birthday, February 22nd. This dessert has a tender crust and tart cherry filling, topped with melt-in-your-mouth meringue. Created by Kathryn Dawley of Gray, Maine, we present it here courtesy of Taste Of Home. What’s a slab pie? It’s a pie that has been sized…
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A Sticky Toffee Pudding Recipe For National Sticky Toffee Pudding Day

January 23rd is National Sticky Toffee Pudding Day, celebrating a classic British dessert that is too seldom found in the U.S. But let’s put an end to that: There’s a delicious recipe below. Sticky Toffee Pudding is not a pudding as Americans know it, but a steamed sponge cake with toffee sauce. Sticky toffee pudding…
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Weekend Baking: Citrus Tart Recipe With Coriander Crust

We love lemon tarts or citrus tarts of any kind. So we were excited to try this citrus tart with a buttery crust flavored with coriander (photo #1). It’s a spin we’d never have thought of: ground coriander mixed into the dough. The flavor of coriander (photo #2) is sweet and a bit citrusy. It…
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Food Fun: A Chocolate Milkshake Recipe For Halloween

[1] A fun milkshake for Halloween (photo © Half & Half Magazine). [2] Use your favorite vanilla ice cream (photo © Talenti Gelato). [3] Add your favorite chocolate milk (photo © Fairlife). [4] If you haven’t had stroopwafels, thin Dutch cookies with a caramel filling, here’s more about them (photo © 3 Bros Cookies).  …
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Raspberry Pots De Creme Recipe For National Pots De Creme Day

August 27th is National Pots De Crème Day, celebrating one of the three classic custards of France. The other two are crème brûlée and crème caramel. Here’s more about the differences. A note about pots de crème (plural) versus pot de crème (singular): Since the custard is always made in a batch of four or…
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