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Orange is your friend

As well as finding a new love for the combination of chocolate and raspberry, I also found new respect for chocolate and orange. This is a homage to one of my favorite candies by Lindt. They take a decadent dark chocolate and add thin slivers of almonds and citrus peel. Try my recipe. Almonds take [...]

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Merry Holiday!

Top of the mornin’ to you on this chilly Christmas day. Being a non-practicing Buddhist, I do not actually celebrate Christmas. But in the spirit of the holidays itself, I give you gingerbread cookies. Thanks to Tasha for giving me this idea! Now I am taking a long, long break from baking cookies… Recipe: Gingerbread [...]

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A Newbie on the Team

I give these powdered sugar delights honorable mention for the inclusion of chocolate and the ease of dumping all the ingredients into a bowl without worrying about creaming butter and sugar or sifting dry ingredients. Chocolate crinkles have a great cakey consistence and a dusting of chocolate flavor, perfect for people who are a bit [...]

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A Heavyweight in Diguise

These may seem like innocent, plain Jane cookies. You might be fooled by its pale exterior. You even might think it’s trying hard to be a reputable baked good with the dusting of sugar on top. But the moment you take a bite, the lemony-buttery goodness consumes the interior of your mouth. Be surprised by [...]

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The Old-New Reigning Cookie

For some unexplainable reason that I never tried to figure out, I always had a hard time making chocolate chips cookies soft and chewy. They always turned out crispy once baked and then just hard after a couple of days. Well, after a few unsuccessful tries, I gave up my quest to create the perfect [...]

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