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Carousel Bundt Pan — Attempt 1
One of my Christmas presents from my parents was this cool bundt pan in the shape of a carousel. Tonight was my first attempt at making a cake with the pan. I used a Death by chocolate bundt cake...
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Carousel Bundt Pan – Trial 2
I tried baking with my carousel bundt pan again this time I didn’t make the mistake of topping it with powdered sugar, and I think it turned out better than last time. Instead, this time around, I...
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Carousel bundt cake – trial 3
This time around I decided to try Bitch, PhD’s suggestion of using colored sugars or rainbow sprinkles anchored in the horses with butter. (I had thought about using colored sugar, etc., but couldn’t...
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Tribute to Summer dinner
Our weather has been miserable hot and miserable humid, so I decided that we needed to celebrate summer a bit. My method? Grilling! We went out this morning and bought a little grill (Weber’s Smokey...
View ArticleBaking without gluten
My Mom recently discovered that she has trouble digesting gluten, so has switched to a gluten-free diet. For those of you unfamiliar with gluten, it’s in everything, or at least seems to be. The main...
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Christmas baking
Last weekend I did most of my Christmas baking (and some of you work friends have already sampled it). I made seven different kinds this year more than what I was planning, but a couple of them were...
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Christmas Past: Baking cookies
Part of my family’s holiday traditions growing up was a fair amount of Christmas baking. Mom would start baking sometime after Thanksgiving, and by the end, we’d have six or seven varieties of cookie....
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Happy Birthday Andrew!
Yesterday was Andrew’s birthday. We spent a quiet evening celebrating his 35th year, with dinner and cake. Inspired by Chocstress over at Chocablog, I decided to make a Dalek Cake. That’s Andrew with...
View ArticleYummy Key Lime Bars
I went scrapping with Laurie last weekend, and when I go up to her place, I usually bring a treat of some sort. This weekend I made up a recipe after seeing key limes at the grocery store. It turned...
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Gin-GRR-Bread Habitat Contest 2011
Longtime readers may recall that last year I entered the inaugural Gin-GRR-bread Habitat Contest at the National Zoo. My entry turned out better than I had ever expected, and I was fairly certain I was...
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