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Daring Bakers November: Delicious Caramel

This month’s recipe was Caramel Cake with Caramelized Butter Icing courtesy of Shuna Fish Lydon, as published on Bay Area Bites. Sounds tasty, right? The recipe involved a great deal of butter, sugar, and making your own caramel syrup to be used as part of the cake. Since Rich’s birthday is November 9th, I decided […]

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Sparkle Sparkle!

Wow, this month really got away from me. I can’t believe it’s nearly December! Ever since Sugar High Friday ‘All that Glitters‘ was announced, I knew I wanted to participate, and I knew exactly what I wanted to make.  These Peanut Blossom cookies are so simple but so tasty, and are a popular treat during […]

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Daring Bakers Pizza

Holy, look how time flies! It’s once again that time of the month where the Daring Bakers take over food blogs everywhere with their delicious creations. This month’s Daring Baker’s challenge was something everyone loves – pizza! What’s that you say? Pizza’s really easy? Well, I can’t really argue with that. But it was chosen […]

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For Thanksgiving, to my lovely Mouseycat

Sorry I’ve taken a bit of a hiatus, folks. I’ve got more posts about Halifax on the way, and a few other things as well.  But I needed some time away from internet things. Thanksgiving here in Canada was the weekend of October 11th.  I had all kinds of plans to bake and cook and […]

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Daring Bakers go Vegan!

Hi from the magic of auto-posting!  This month’s Daring Baker’s challenge reveal day is September 27th, but I’m going to be out-of-town on that day, so I’m writing this on September 15th and crossing my fingers that the auto-post feature works!  If you’re reading this on the 27th, I guess it has. This month the […]

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