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Baking

Baked Apples – Kids in the Kitchen!

So my daughter (9yrs old) has taken to baking (aka making a gigantic mess) in the kitchen.   And, with a lack of chocolate chips, cocoa powder, maple syrup, cream cheese, and half a dozen spices, what’s a girl to do?
We went for baked apples – in the microwave.
Per apple:
1.  Cut in half, and scoop [...]

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Perfect Baking Powder Biscuits!

Edited Oct/ 09 to be even BETTER (if you can believe it!)

This is an oldie but a goodie. And one of my favorites.
Ingredients:

3 eggs, beaten
1/2 cup buttermilk milk (1 tsp lemon juice & enough milk to make 1/2 cup)
1 Tbsp vanilla
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
2 cups flour blend for baking
2 tsp guar gum
pinch tsp salt
3 [...]

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Favorite Dessert This week: Cheesecake!

In an instant of sheer brilliance, we purchased a frozen cheesecake for our daughter’s 9th birthday party.  It didn’t occur to me before this, that the cake might actually be gluten free! Come to think of it, my favorite cheesecake is nothing more than eggs, sugar, and cream cheese!  So, yeah, in its truest sense, [...]

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Ice Cream Cake with Brownie Crust

This is better than DQ ice cream cakes by a LOOOOONG ways.  Give this a go:

[cref  #802 Brownie Recipe]
2 liters of ice cream
bucket of cool whip, defrosted
birthday candles

Bake brownies in 9×13 pan.  (I had to use several pans, and then layered the cake in a truffle serving dish.)
While brownies are cooling, remove ice [...]

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Today’s favorite cookie: Peanut Butter

Yummmmmy.  My favorite cookie recipe is our Peanut Butter cookies, simply because they are so easy.  Even our 8 year old can make these, with a little help.

1 cup peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg

Stir together.
Drop on ungreased cookie sheet by teaspoonful.
Press with sugared fork.
Cook 325 for 8 – 10 minutes.

Could it BE easier?

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Chocolate Molding

I went to a girlfriends last week for a chocolate demonstration.  We were going to learn to melt and mold chocolate.  And we were supposed to do it all – proper like.  This means I had to sneak into the kitchen to do my taste testing.  Because.  Um.  I just had to.
Here’s the how [...]

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Banana Cream Pie (Giveaway)

Scroll down to win a free pre-packaged version.
This has always been my go-to pie recipe.  Until we changed our diet to Gluten Free. (One reader uses GF to mean Good Food – cute, eh?)  So last week, I made an adaptation of this super easy desert but you aren’t going to get pictures.  Because, [...]

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Gluten Free Brownies

These are VERY delish!  All the credit goes to the Complete Gluten Free Cookbook (except I substituted my regular gf flour blend instead of the flours in the recipe).
Ingredients:

1 1/2 cup flour blend.
2 cups sugar
1/2 c cocoa pwd
1/2 tsp baking pwd
1/4 tsp salt
4 eggs
1 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup water
4 tsp vanilla

Directions:

Preheat oven to 325 – [...]

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