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Carrot cake

No question carrot cake is a great American classic now popular all over the globe. I wanted to make an over-the-top carrot cake for my dad’s milestone eighty-years-young birthday tomorrow. Here is what I came up with: This cake is extra moist. INGREDIENTS: One 12-inch round cake pan, lined with parchment paper 3 cups of [...]
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Christmas cookies

I wanted to make cookies with a different shape,  something that would be more Christmas-like. I had these wooden molds that I used to make the German springerle cookies with. I used the angel one. I ordered them from www.houseonthehill.net INGREDIENTS: 3/4 cup softened butter, preferably unsalted 2 cups  sugar 1 egg 1 cup ground [...]
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Spiced Biscotti

A few days ago,  I stopped by  Wholefoods   to fetch something and a smiling lady came up to me with a tray and offered me a very thin biscotti with a smidgeon of blue cheese on top. The biscotti was thin and hard, sweet, studded with almonds and raisins; the sweet cookie was a [...]
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