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Candied Almond Bars

You know what I like about these bars? Everything. They were easy to make, very fast, tasty, they made the house smell delicious and they are a perfect fall treat for noshing on with a good sized mug of hot cocoa and whipped cream. They came about because I was sitting home alone, bored, getting [...]

Seven-Deadly-Layer Bars

It’s that time of year again. Fat Tuesday. Mardi Gras. Carnivale. For some people, “Paczki Day.” I, for one, enjoy Mardi Gras. Who doesn’t like shiny beads and socially accepted overindulgence? Monks. But we just won’t tell them about it. Anyway, I enjoy the festivities. There is, however, one thing that has always somewhat baffled [...]

the Great Recipe Experiment: #2-Cranberry Bars

Or alternatively titled, “Get Shortbread.” The second recipe I decided to try for my Great Recipe Experiment was for the Joy of Baking’s cranberry shortbread bars. Carrie and Sophia both said they’d be willing to sample these for me. I actually would have made them early last week but for the life of me, I [...]

The UnBaked

I know what you’re thinking: oh geez. Here we go again. Yet another post where she tells us about how she hates to bake but then bakes (delicious, delectable, decadent) desserts anyway. I just can’t take it anymore. I just can’t handle this gastronomical rollercoaster! Well, never fear. Because this time it’s different. I promise. [...]

Apricot and cinnamon are totally going together but don’t want anyone to know

So an apricot walks into a bar. Which would be funny if it weren’t so terribly sad, seeing that alcoholism runs rampant in the apricot population. It’s an epidemic. You can do your part to help quell this senseless march towards destruction by donating your dried apricots to a nobel cause: baked goods. I love [...]

Me Want Cookie or How I learned to stop worrying and love the (banana chocolate chip) bar

So this post is a shout out to Jill, of U-M’s Family Medicine Dept., who very sweetly gave me a book on cookies. No, no, the book on cookies. Better Homes and Gardens’ Ultimate Cookie book to be precise. 500 cookie recipes. Five. Hundred. Cookie. Recipes. Right now at this very moment, Cookie Monster himself [...]

Lemon Bars, or How Many Lemon Jokes Have You Got?

So this lemon walks into a bar. Bartender looks him over, thinks about it, says, “You know, I like you. You got a lot of a peel.” What do you call a benefit concert for sick lemons? Lemon aid. The local bar was so sure that its bartender was the strongest man around that they [...]

Bye-bye banany

I gained a new superpower in the last…oh, two hours or so. I mastered ice once. Now, I have mastered fire. Well, dry heat. The oven. Specifically bananas in the oven. I know what you’re thinking. Okay, I don’t know what you’re thinking, but if I were you, I would be thinking, “Who the hell [...]

“It happens every time; they all become blueberries.”

Josh is a fan of blueberries. A picky, picky fan of blueberries who will only eat fresh ones in season, never in pancakes, and who makes delicious blueberry muffins. Last summer we picked our own blueberries on a farm in West Michigan, near where Josh grew up. Because of that, we now have stacks of [...]