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Black Forest Zuccotto

I actually wasn’t ever going to post this recipe, we had it last night, and while it tasted great, it really didn’t meld together like I wanted it too.
And then, we had it for dessert again tonight. And it was perfect after sitting in the fridge overnight, so….I can put two and two together sometimes [...]

 

Lemon Buttercream Icing

I knew this was coming.
I knew this was coming and I just stood there like a deer in the headlights, waiting. Because when I perfected my icing recipe to my taste and liking, we all knew that I had to add lemon. Because that’s what I do to everything and anything I can. Add lemon.
Because [...]

 

How To: Make The Best Buttercream Icing

I have found my icing recipe, it’s perfect and I won’t fiddle around with it any more. Promise. Ok, well maybe one day I will try adding a couple drops of lemon juice to it, to give it a little pizazz. You know me and lemon. It’s bound to happen one day that the two [...]

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Grandma Marion’s Christmas Pudding

This is the loveliest idea for pictures we have done ever; we took a beloved, traditional recipe and made it together as a family, while my friend Rebecca memorialized it for all eternity in pictures, she’s another of my oh-so talented phot0grapher friends. You can take a peek at her work at Rebecca McKay Photography. [...]

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Easy Chocolate Truffles

Truffles mean that God is a woman. I’m just going to put that out there and leave it at that.
These are the easiest truffles that you can find to make, and that is saying something. Good truffles take some patience and time and a little artistry once in a while, and these require that as [...]

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Pineapple Slice

This is another one of my grandma’s recipes, and one of my favorites. Oh, fine, they are all my favorites. It’s a given. This is a light, airy, just sweet enough dessert that now has taken top place in my husbands heart over the old one, cherry cha-cha, another family classic.

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Space Ship/Rocket Birthday Cake

This was supposed to be a space shuttle, this cake was not in any way, shape or form supposed to look like it did. It was supposed to look like the one on the Berry Crocker website. The bleepers at Betty Crocker though, sneakily used a white cake. My crumb layer failed so completely at [...]

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The Best Brownies AKA Chocolate Chewy Wonders

Ever since I made delicious, chewy brownies and promptly lost the recipe for them, I have been searching for a recipe that creates the same chewy-riffic, chocolate bliss that I once experienced. In the searching I learned a few things, how not to mix the hell outta them when you put in the flour, and [...]

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