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Booze Cakes: Confections Spiked With Spirits, Wine, and Beer

Booze CakesEvery once in a while, you want to have a treat that is a little more grown up  – no matter how much you like a classic chocolate cupcake. You’ll find more grown up treats that you can eat in Booze Cakes: Confections Spiked With Spirits, Wine, and Beer, a cookbook …

What is Candied Ginger?

What is Candied Ginger?
Ginger is a wonderfully spicy to cook and bake with, and the fresh root can easily be grated into everything from sauces to cake batter. But candied ginger is my favorite way to put this spice to good use. Candied ginger is ginger root that has been cooked in a sugar syrup until …

Bites from other Blogs

  • Usually, one of the best parts about eating waffles is getting to douse them with maple syrup as you eat. My Baking Addiction‘s Maple Chip Waffles infuse some maple right into the batter. Maple Chips look like brown sugar-colored chocolate chips and have an intense maple flavor …

Cookies for your inner geek

Science Cookies

Cookies are not generally geeky things, they fall more into the “all around” category of things that can be enjoyed by anyone. But once you move away from chocolate chip and peanut butter and into more complex cookies, it’s only natural that things will sometimes go to far. Besides, didn’t anyone ever …

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Silky is not an adjective that I’ve heard used much when it comes to describing brownies. So I was a little surprised to see it used to name the OtherWorldly Silky Fudgy Brownies from LunaCafe. LunaCafe says that the name comes from the fact that these souffle-like brownies have the …

Baking Bites Holiday Cupcake Contest Winners!

Bittersweet’s Mini Gingerbread Cupcakes

My favorite thing about the Baking Bites Holiday Cupcake Contest is seeing how creative everyone is with their cupcakes and their photography. Every single entry is just mouthwatering – and all of the designs and decorations can easily be recreated in your own kitchen, so I’m sure I’m …

Bites from other Blogs

Bites from other Blogs doesn’t usually get a theme, but with Christmas only two days away this week, I can’t resist making sure that there is a good collection of holiday goodies here.

Bites from other Blogs

  • If Christmas cookies aren’t your thing, why not try some holiday cupcakes? Alice and the Mock Turtle made up some very cute Snowman Cupcakes for the holidays and has some great tips on how you can make them easily at home. I think the most clever touch of the cakes …