Sweet recipes including cookies, pies, cakes and other desserts.
Decorating cookies with wafer paper can be done a few different ways, but the common denominator is that wafer paper attached to a crumb-free surface best. There are a couple of ways to achieve this kind of surface, including royal icing, fondant, and modeling chocolate, each of which has a different flavor. So how do […]
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These homemade pumpkin cinnamon rolls are always a hit any time I make them. They’re especially nice during the autumn pumpkin spice season, though. I make them without the glaze because they’re sweet enough without it, but you can add a glaze if you’d like to. Pumpkin cinnamon roll recipe. For a recipe for fat-free
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This sunflower butter recipe for no-bake chocolate snack balls are really easy to make, only have four ingredients, and they’re gluten-free, nut-free, and full of fiber. If you use the chocolate Sunbutter that I did, they’ll also have a nice chocolate flavor, but you can use the regular if you prefer. These are like little
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I was at the post office when one of the clerks asked me if I’d ever made sunflower seed butter cookies instead of peanut butter. He said that his daughter was allergic to peanuts, so he was wondering about whether the sunflower seed butter would work if you baked using it. I hadn’t done a
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When you make a gingerbread house you’ll either want a recipe that’s really sturdy and is more for building, or one that is actually meant to be eaten and tastes good! The problem with the ones that taste good is that they usually include more ingredients that make them softer, so they might not stand
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I was poking around online and I started running across recipes that mentioned black cocoa powder. I hadn’t used this specific ingredient before, so I decided to get some to see if it was something I should pay attention to. And wow, yes, if you’re wondering whether the black cocoa powder tastes different, it does
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Nut cakes are a nice change from the basic white or yellow cake, and you can pair them with a lot of flavors that are more interesting than the basics. I used to use this nut cake recipe mostly for hazelnut and macadamia cakes, but you can also use it for walnut and pecan cakes.
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Okay, let’s cut to the chase…You can put anything together with vanilla cake. So any list is going to be a partial list of ideas, but I hope that these flavor combinations will give you some inspiration to come up with your own ideas. I’ll start with the basics then move on to more complicated
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Nut cakes are a nice change of pace from the usual vanilla or chocolate. Some nut cakes are made with a basic cake batter and flavored oils, and some have ground nuts in them, so there are a lot of ways to incorporate nuts into the cake if you want to serve something different. Almond
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When you’re making a gingerbread house, you need to make sure that the gingerbread recipe you’re using is the right kind for building, not a gingerbread recipe that you’re supposed to eat. There are different types of gingerbread, and the ones that you use for cookies aren’t necessarily going to work for making houses. The
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