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How to Bake Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies + Video: Valentine’s Day Treats
Feb13

How to Bake Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies + Video: Valentine’s Day Treats

Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies for Valentine’s Day just seems like the perfect cookie for the occasion. Chocolate chips & maraschino cherry chunks inundate this rich, buttery cookie dough, creating flaky deliciousness upon baking. Surprise your sweetheart with these sweets. How to Bake Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies: Use a heart-shaped cookie cutter for romantic results! Type: Cookie Recipe Serve with: tea, coffee or...

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How to Bake Christmas Shortbread Cookies
Dec22

How to Bake Christmas Shortbread Cookies

These Christmas Shortbread Cookies absolutely melt in your mouth… It’s hard to stay away from your tins of these dainties, let alone everyone else in your household. How to Bake Christmas Shortbread Cookies: This is the first time I’ve shared this recipe. Tip: Because of the various & different sizes of cookie cutters you may be using, it’s difficult to determine yield, but I’ve found I usually get 5...

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How to Bake Marshmallow Squares
Dec20

How to Bake Marshmallow Squares

Marshmallow Squares are a tasty dessert I love to make & enjoy around the Holiday Season. These pretty squares have a lovely texture & flavor, with a marshmallow layer like a cloud. Believe me, they’ll disappear quickly! Perfect for Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter, baby & wedding showers. Try making green ones for St. Patrick’s Day. 😉 How to Bake Christmas Marshmallow Squares: This recipe yields about...

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How to Bake Coconut Brownies with Cream Cheese Icing
Dec20

How to Bake Coconut Brownies with Cream Cheese Icing

I don’t think I know anyone who does not like brownies, especially this recipe for Coconut Brownies with Cream Cheese Icing! It is just super delicious and everyone asks for more…and a few more. 😉 These goodies with their zebra striped deliciousness are a great treat anytime, but look especially wonderful on a Christmas dessert tray, or for a sweetheart for Valentine’s. How to Bake Coconut Brownies with Cream Cheese...

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How to Bake Christmas Fingerprint Cookies
Dec18

How to Bake Christmas Fingerprint Cookies

Christmas Fingerprint Cookies are always on the Turner family household repertoire for the Holidays. These delicious cookies take a little work & time, but the effort is definitely worth it because once tasted, they won’t be forgotten. This is the first time I’m sharing this Christmas recipe. Fingerprint cookies are another family favorite, and they are so very pretty when they’re done. These tender, buttery...

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How to Bake Christmas Oatmeal Frosties + Video
Dec17

How to Bake Christmas Oatmeal Frosties + Video

One of my most favorite, all-time Holiday treats – Christmas Oatmeal Frosties! My family feels it’s not really Christmas, unless we have my oatmeal frosties. I’ve made my frosties for the Holidays already, but I believe I will have to make another batch before Christmas because for some reason, they seem to be disappearing quickly! Now, this is the very first time I’ve ever shared this recipe…maybe even a...

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How to Bake Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake: National Chocolate Day
Oct28

How to Bake Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake: National Chocolate Day

National Chocolate Day is here and I’m sharing with you a Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake recipe below… But first, a few chocolate facts. Chocolate Facts: What is more decadent than chocolate & very few wouldn’t welcome such a tasty treat at any time. Chocolate & cocoa come from an evergreen tree genus, theobroma, “Food of the Gods.” Cocoa beans grow in a pod of a cocoa tree. They are both identically...

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How to Bake Rose’s Pecan Cookies
Sep22

How to Bake Rose’s Pecan Cookies

My sister, Rose, was a phenomenal home chef and baker. Among her many signature dishes, as well as experimental things she created, everything I ever had of hers tasted fabulous, was appealing to the eye, and there was never enough! I was perusing through some of my recipes I have saved, and came across this one of hers that is such a winner, and that I hadn’t baked in a long while. So, here is a superb recipe for pecan...

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National Pecan Cookie Day: Recipe of Nostalgia
Sep21

National Pecan Cookie Day: Recipe of Nostalgia

Are you “nuts about baking” cookies, cakes and breads? Good news, we’re celebrating National Pecan Cookie Day! I love baking, and especially with nuts… Ah, yes…Pecans, like most nuts, are high in fats and protein. Their oils carry nutrients & flavor, and that’s why they are so very delicious. Sometimes recipes indicated that nuts are optional, meaning that the recipe will be okay if you...

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Sure to Cure a Sweet Tooth: National Cream-Filled Donut Day
Sep14

Sure to Cure a Sweet Tooth: National Cream-Filled Donut Day

Whoever invented the donut, knew what would appeal to the masses… …But whoever invented the cream filled donut was a genius! Who doesn’t enjoy the taste of a lite, cakey donut filled with sweet cream and powdered with icing sugar? ~ Ingrid Turner I could dream about cream filled donuts… They are large and in charge, being larger than “regular” donuts since they are not missing the hole. Of course,...

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Lower Fat: How to Make Milk Glaze for Desserts
Sep11

Lower Fat: How to Make Milk Glaze for Desserts

Sometimes, a heavy icing is just unnecessary for dessert treats both baked and unbaked. Here is an alternative to those higher fat glazes you can opt to make for your sweets, and save a little on those dastardly love handles we carry around – Milk Glaze. Perfect for topping Hot Cross Buns, drizzled over berries, or atop Rice Krispie treats you’re eating right away. Such a simple recipe, and perfect for those times you...

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National Hot Cross Bun Day: How to Bake Hot Cross Buns with Milk Glaze
Sep11

National Hot Cross Bun Day: How to Bake Hot Cross Buns with Milk Glaze

Did you know that today is National Hot Cross Bun Day? Well, in the USA it is… Someone might mention “Hot Cross Buns” and this little ditty of a nursery rhyme pops into memory immediately! Hot Cross Buns. Hot Cross Buns. One a penny, two a penny. Hot Cross Buns! They are so silky, big & fluffy hiding their tasty, little morsels of goodness inside. Whether toasted or plain, they’re great! Typically made for...

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How to Make Flavored Finishing Sugars
May06

How to Make Flavored Finishing Sugars

Most of the time, sugar is, well, just sugar…Right? True…However, there are times when flavoring sugar for desserts, drinks, fruits, etc. can be simply amazing and truly perfect! A little something different…that “je ne sais quoi”! Typically speaking, you don’t use a lot when you’re talking about finishing or flavored sugars. They are simply to enhance flavor and give a marvelous twist. So,...

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