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Sweets

Mini Chocolate Zucchini Cakes

June 10, 2010
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I’ve been doing some baking recently with butter! I know, strange way to start a post but this really is exciting for me. The last year has been so full of whole wheat, low fat baking goodies that its nice to be baking occassionally with the good stuff. Weight watchers has been good to me. I haven’t [...]

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Dorie’s Perfection Pound Cake

June 6, 2010
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I forgot how much I loved butter until I made this pound cake. haha. But really, I haven’t made anything with this much butter in probably well over a year. I’m constantly cutting fat in recipes and I never bake anything that requires much more than one stick of butter, simply because I worked too [...]

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Pineapple Sherbet

May 4, 2010
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I’m not sure how May snuck up on me; time really does go faster as you get older. Speaking of getting older, May means birthdays for both hubby and I  Which means I need to start experimenting with some cake recipes! I rarely make cake but our birthdays give me a good excuse to experiment [...]

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Strawberry Sherbet

April 15, 2010
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It’s not quite summer yet, but I was ready to bust out the ice cream machine! The temps are already reaching the 80s after all. I love making homemade ice cream but I’ve done little of that the last few years, as I can’t seem to pull of lower fat ice cream. Anyone have a [...]

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Double Chocolate Chip Cookies

March 10, 2010
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Sometimes a girl just needs some chocolate. I don’t bake much anymore. My waist line can’t afford it. Well it could if I went to the gym, but its been months since I set foot in the gym so in the meantime cookies are not my friend. Oh but they are. These chocolate cookies are [...]

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Pecan Sandies

December 17, 2009
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Cookies, cookies galore! Its amazing I haven’t gained an ounce this season yet. I guess weight watchers did me good in helping me moderate portions, etc. cause so far so good! I haven’t tracked points in months but have managed to maintain my weight so I’m a happy camper. These suckers though… there was nothing [...]

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Soft Sugar Cookies

December 7, 2009
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I have no idea when I started enjoying sugar cookies so much. Don’t get me wrong, I’d still prefer chocolate *anything* 9 times out of 10 but somehow these sugar cookies have made their way into my favorites! Sneaky little buggers! But if you give them a taste, you’ll know why. They’re delicious. Soft and [...]

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