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Hazelnut Linzer Cookies

05.12.2009 Baked

Each year that the holiday cookie spreads come out in food magazines, the Linzer cookies catch my eye.  Most often, they appear in bar form, constructed on a sheet pan, spread with jam, covered with a lattice top, and perhaps sprinkled with powdered sugar.  Thinking about the attraction now, it was the pastry that caught [...]

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German Chocolate Cake: Inside-out

05.04.2009 Baked

My sister celebrated a birthday recently, and since we both believe that sending a card or present across the country for this event is necessary, I’ve been trying to think of other ways to celebrate.  You know — it’s the thought that counts sort of thing.  Two years ago, I posted a tribute to her.  [...]

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Pastry Ring with Dark Chocolate and Cardamom

29.03.2009 Baked

One of the techniques I’ve shied away from has been making puff pastry.  Although I can be fairly tenacious, when I feel like I’ve worked diligently on something and it doesn’t turn out, I’m not willing to jump back to the task to get it right.  Let me adjust that — when it comes [...]

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Sugared Lemon Sandwich Cookies

07.12.2008 Baked

Day Seven of our 12 Days of Cookies Extravaganza brings a bit of sunshine on a day that surprisingly isn't, which makes it a very pleasant day to be baking.  I'd like to say that Bing is crooning holiday songs on the Bose and there's a fire crackling in the family room, but I'll have [...]

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I Say Cassata, You say…

22.07.2008 Baked

I’m sitting here eating cake.  It’s 10:45 am, I slept decadently until a quarter past nine, and no one is here but me and my cake.  And it’s not just any cake.
It’s Cassata.
I know.  I never heard of it before last week, either, but when you are in the company of the baking-obsessed and whimsical [...]

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Orange Cake with Mascarpone Creme

16.05.2007 Baked

I have many of Susan Branch's wonderful hand-written books.  Most are cookbooks, but a few are something you sit down with to peruse and reminisce about over a cup of coffee or tea.  They're cozy little books that happen to have great recipes in them that always turn out.  Always.  The sweetest book — literally [...]

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