RECIPE: Apple Streusel Bundt Cake

Remember the Tunnel Of Fudge Cake, a chocolate bundt cake with an inner circle of chocolate pudding? Here’s a sophisticated version for fall: a bundt with a circle of apple streusel. Celebrate fall’s apple harvest with this recipe from Zulka, a family-owned business that makes premium sugar.     RECIPE: APPLE STREUSEL BUNDT CAKE Ingredients…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Halloween Cocktail Party

Toast All Hallow’s Eve with a Vampire Elixir. Photo courtesy Belvedere Vodka. There’s still time to invite friends to a Halloween cocktail party—costumes optional. Create your cocktail menu from these cocktail recipes: Bloody Eyeball Martini Bloody Vampire Martini Brandy-Based Cocktails Drunken Pumpkin Pie Candy Corn Cocktail Gin-Based Cocktails Harvest Moon Cocktail Kahlúa-Based Cocktails Pumpkin Divine…
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RECIPE: Triple Peanut Butter Cookies

Back to school time always makes us think of our Nana’s peanut butter cookies. Nana was a traditionalist—just peanut butter and chopped peanuts. But for an extra bit of fun, add peanut butter baking chips, which are the third peanut component in these triple peanut butter cookies from Zulka Morena. Variations: Substitute toffee chips, chocolate…
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TIP OF THE DAY: 50+ Ways To Eat Pierogi

October 8th is National Pierogi Day. Pierogi* are dumplings of Central and Eastern European origin, traditionally stuffed with cheese, fruit, ground meat, mashed potato or sauerkraut. They can be served boiled baked or fried/sautéed, usually in butter with sautéed onions. Pierogi is the Polish word. In Russian the term is pelmeni (don’t confuse pierogi with…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: National Homemade Cookie Day

Start preheating the oven: October 1st is National Homemade Cookie Day. Here are some of our favorite cookie recipes. We could do chocolate chip, America’s favorite cookie; but we’re really in the mood for these Gingerbread Bars With Cream Cheese Icing. In honor of the month of October—the beginning of “pumpkin season”—we’ll add some pumpkin…
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