Heart Shaped Donuts

As a child my family and I would spend most weekends at the beach house. Here’s a picture of my mom with me and my siblings. I am the littlest one sitting with mom. I have fond memories of my dad getting donuts on Sunday mornings as a treat.  My favorite kind of donut was the Boston Cream donut with powdered sugar. I can almost taste it! The…

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Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Check out my recipe for Chocolate covered pretzels and try instead to dip fresh strawberries in chocolate and let them set in the refrigerator for a few minutes. Then to make more perfect looking lines try using a pastry bag with a fine tip.  I like the color combination of the milk  and white chocolate. These were made my 16 year old, my creative genius! Easy, delicious…

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It’s party time!

Try my Party Sugar Cookie at your next party celebration! Start with multicolored jimmies.                                       When your dough forms together it will look like this.  Two cookies in a row on parchment paper.                    Let them cool for five minutes.                                          And that’s the way the cookie crumbles! YUMMY!                  

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What we can learn from the upside down cake

A baker somewhere during the 1920s created the upside down cake not necessarily by mistake, but somehow the upside down cake became a delicious sensation. You see back then you had to bake using a cast iron skillet, so fruit would go on the bottom and the cake batter on top and then you would put the skillet over the fire. How genius when you…

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