Totally Worth It!
One of the things that I love about Easter time is the Easter candy. My favorite all-time treat is a Cadbury Creme Egg. I just love them, milk chocolate, gooey uber-sweet center,...
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Holiday Goodies
Last Minute Gift Idea?
Try this one. Sorry I forgot to snap a picture, but everyone who’s had it has enjoyed it completely. I would have never thought of peanut brittle as a great gift- but...
A Pretty Cookie
This last Saturday at the cookie party I went to there was a cookie disaster. One of the ladies had found a recipe in her local paper for a chocolate covered cherry...
A Slightly Savory Cookie
This is a cookie that is slightly different, depending how you look at it. I was looking through my cookie magazines, and there was one that caught my eye that was just...
English Toffee
I tried a new recipe for toffee the other day. I think. The problem came when I was looking for a toffee recipe and I found this one in my Mastercook program...
The Lessons are Neverending
Just when you think you’ve made all the errors you possibly can this baking season…another one leaps out from the oven. Yesterday I spent some time testing some new cookies. One of...
A Lesson In Leavening
You would think that the candy failure would have taught me a lesson. Yet here I was trying to do too much at once, and then Andy mentioned gingersnaps. I had forgotten...
I Hate Candy Failure!
There’s nothing more disappointing to me. I tried a new recipe this morning for a peanut butter candy. The recipe was from a really reliable source, so I went ahead with it,...
Candy Season Has Begun!
As I was surveying my sprinkle collection the other day, my eye caught a small package of sucker sticks. I was excited! I didn’t realize I had any of those left, and...
A Quicker Caramel
I think I’ve posted about my caramel before. In the past it’s brought me angst as I became familiar with my electric stove and the pots I had available to me. I’ve...
Revisiting a Favorite
One of my favorite Christmas Cookies is my Mom’s Choco-Marshmallow cookies. They are a very simple cookie, a chocolate cookie is baked most of the way through before a marshmallow half is...
An American Family
One of the things that always come out this time of year is the idea of “time honored traditions.” Every other magazine or web page is asking what your favorite traditions are....