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Samoas are one of the most popular Girl Scout cookies for good reason: they have a fantastic combination of flavors. The cookies consist of a butter cookie base that is topped with a rich coating of caramel and coconut and drenched with chocolate. The Girl Scout cookie version – also known as …

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Gear and Gadgets

Wilton Heart Whoopie Pie Pan

January 28, 2011

Cake-like, cream-filled whoopie pies are enjoying a huge surge of popularity right now as a retro treat at bakeries and restaurants. They’re easy to make at home, too, and while they’re usually just made free-form on a baking sheet (much like regular cookies), some cake pan manufacturers are now coming out with …

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Gear and Gadgets Product Reviews

Beyond Gourmet Unbleached Baking Cups, reviewed

January 27, 2011January 12, 2012

Unbleached baking cups
I have an extensive collection of baking cups and have a wide variety of sizes and colors that I choose from each time I bake. For holidays, it is usually easy to choose a themed cupcake wrapper, but for everyday baking, it can be nice to use something a little more understated, especially …

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Baking How-To's and Tips

Whole milk vs low fat or skim milk in baking

January 27, 2011June 16, 2013

Many baking recipes call for milk as one of the main ingredients. Many recipes will call for a specific type of milk – whole milk, low fat, skim – and others will simply call for it without specifying the fat content. This brings a couple of questions to the surface: what is …

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Puddings, Custards and Mousses Recipes

Dulce de Leche Creme Caramel

January 26, 2011

Creme caramel has a bit of a bad reputation as being difficult to make, but this is one myth that should be busted because it is nowhere near as difficult as it looks. Actually, you might want to keep the myth going just so you can impress dinner guests by bringing out perfectly …

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Baking Foodies and Chefs

Bites from other Blogs

January 26, 2011

When a whole pie is just too much, perhaps a smaller dessert might be in order – like the Mini Banana Cream Pies that Jumbo Empanadas baked up. These tarts are very simple and consist of layers of custard and sliced bananas. The tarts are each about the size of …

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Sweet Stuff

Wilton Micro Heart Sprinkles

January 25, 2011

One of the easiest ways to dress up a cake or cookies for a holiday is to top them off with some colorful sprinkles. I am always tempted by the seasonal sprinkles that hit the baking aisle during the holidays – trees for Christmas, bats at Halloween and hearts at Valentine’s Day – …

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Baking

Where can I find natural food coloring?

January 25, 2011

Food coloring can be added to food for a variety of reasons and is used to enhance the natural color of a dish as well as to introduce decorative color to one. The latter is particularly true in baking, where you might want to tint a frosting for a birthday cake or get …

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Samoas Scones

Wilton Heart Whoopie Pie Pan

Beyond Gourmet Unbleached Baking Cups, reviewed

Whole milk vs low fat or skim milk in baking

Dulce de Leche Creme Caramel

Bites from other Blogs

Wilton Micro Heart Sprinkles

Where can I find natural food coloring?

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