Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

20 September 2010
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Sorry I’ve been slow to post lately. I have a big backlog of photos & recipes but haven’t had time to edit/proof lately. The new job is keeping me really busy ( and life too)! Fall always keeps us on the road a bunch and weekends fill with family trips and visitors, which makes it [...]

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Mini Chocolate Zucchini Cakes

10 June 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

6 June 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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Lemon Yogurt Cake

4 May 2009
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Lemon Yogurt Cake. Honestly, its something I skipped right past when I got my Barefoot Contessa at Home cookbook years ago. I’m just not that into citrus desserts. Hubby loves them though and as I bake more goodies for him, my fondness of all things citrus is growing. This was definitely a lemon cake but [...]

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Foodbuzz 24,24,24: A Night of Texas Hold 'Em

1 March 2009
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We love entertaining and don’t do it as much as we should but we’re working on it! One of the things we’ve been trying to stick to over the last 8-9 months is having a regularly scheduled game night. We’ve had 3 or 4 to date and they’re always a hit. The thing we haven’t [...]

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Cheesecake Pops

27 April 2008
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Its that time again… daring bakers time that is! This time it was cute little cheesecake bites! When I first saw what this month’s challenge , I was thrilled because I’ve never made anything like this and hubby LOVES cheesecake. The downside of this month’s challenge… I don’t particularly care for cheesecake much. Although, maybe [...]

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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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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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Pumpkin Sheet Cake

5 October 2007
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I’ve been dying to make something with pumpkin all week but nothing sounded that great (well pumpkin roll did but I wanted to try something new). I actually intended to try something very different since pumpkin roll is the only thing I’ve ever made with pumpkin! I know what a shame but we’ll change that [...]

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Icebox cake

12 August 2007
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My husband will tell you that cheesecake is his favorite dessert, and cheesecake is what he always requests for his birthday. But I think this recipe might just be his real favorite. I had never heard of nor seen such a concoction until after marrying my husband and the only place I’ve ever seen it [...]

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Cake this good… well it must be from Texas!

30 July 2007

Saturday evening, 6 family members joined us for dinner. Its been awhile since I’ve made any sort of cake so I knew what I wanted to make for dessert. I grabbed my cookbook to find my Grandmother’s recipe for Texas Sheet Cake… I knew I had the perfect dessert for our BBQ. Our cousins ohh [...]

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