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Perfect Party Cake

30 March 2008
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Its daring bakers time again! Quite honestly, I’m not sure how I manged to complete this month’s edition of Daring Bakers. All month I’d been planning to make this cake Easter weekend (also my mom’s birthday). It was going to be the perfect way to take care of this challenge. Unfortunately hubby’s grandfather got very [...]

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Chocolate Dulce de Leche Cookies

18 March 2008
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This post is long over due, but as I mentioned in my last post… life has been a little hectic! I received 2 little jars of Dulce de Leche from Blake Makes earlier this month. I had lots of ideas of what I could make… cupcakes, muffins, cake, tarts, truffles… then I decided I’d make [...]

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Lemon Meringue Pie

28 January 2008
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For my second daring bakers challenge, the assignment was to make lemon meringue pie as chosen by Jen of The Canadian Baker. As I’ve said time and time again, I’m a chocoholic so things like lemon meringue are new experiences for me cause I tend to only bake sweets that have chocolate and consume chocolate [...]

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Happy New Year!

1 January 2008

Happy New Year! Can you believe its already 2008?! This year has flown by! As we look forward into 2008 and all that it awaits us, I wanted to take a moment to look back and highlight a few of our favorite recipes from 2007; some are old family favorites and some are all new [...]

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Buche de Noel (Yule Log)

22 December 2007
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I’m proud to announce I am now a Daring Baker. December was the perfect time to join Daring Bakers as the Christmas baking season is upon us. What are the Daring Bakers? The Daring Bakers are a group dedicated to pushing the limits of their collective love — baking! Each month a challenge is set [...]

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