This week’s host was Betsy, and she chose French Macroons. They were a tad pricey, due to the need to use almond flour, but not so much that they wouldn’t be worth making for a special occasion. The end result is a cute little sandwich cookie. The recipe itself was pretty simple….it takes a little [...]
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This was my week to host and as I browsed through the cookbook trying to decide what to choose, I really had no direction. I wasn’t in the mood for anything in particular, so I just marked a few recipes that looked good to me and hoped one would stand out. When I came to [...]
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This was a fun week and one that I’ve looked forward to as soon as I saw it posted as Jesse’s choice. It was a nice break from all of the sweet stuff we’ve been making, and it’s always nice when a week of baking can knock out a meal as well! I decided to [...]
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This week’s post comes to you from the the nation’s capitol! I wasn’t sure I’d get this recipe done, as I’m on vacation visiting my sister. She’s a fellow Bake 52′er, but she also just moved in the last week, so I wasn’t sure her kitchen would be put together enough to do any baking. [...]
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I’m fairly new to this whole pie thing and this is the first real fruit pie that I’ve made. I’ve never had strawberry rhubarb pie before, and was a little apprehensive because rhubarb just screams vegetable to me. Owen even asked if it was strawberry celery, since it…well, looks like red celery. On the other [...]
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Wow! Can you believe we are 15 weeks into the year? I can’t. I also can’t believe that I have baked something every week for 15 weeks straight….that’s more than I’ve baked in probably the last 5 years combined! This week’s host was Courtney, and since I know that she doesn’t really care much for [...]
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First off, I must apologize for my lack of pictures with this post. Sometimes my house seems like chaos when I’m trying to bake and picking up the camera for a picture or three would simply put me over the edge! Even with my limited Spanish, I knew right off that this cake was going [...]
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I’ve been excited about this week for a while for three reasons. First, one of my favorite movies of all time is Amélie, and one of her favorite things to do is crack the sugar on Crème Brûlée (I would have included a clip here, but everything I found on youtube included inappropriate scenes….the copy we [...]
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You know a recipe is going to be good when the it directs you to roll the dough out not on a lightly floured surfaced, but a lightly sugared surface! I had hight hopes for this one! This week’s pick was Palmiers, a cookie I had not heard of before. When I read that it [...]
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I wasn’t worried about this recipe at all. Bread? No sweat. I decided on Sunday morning that I’d make it to go with dinner that night, but when I started reading the recipe, I learned that it’s a two-day process. There was a one-day option, but I wanted to stay as true to the original [...]
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It’s no secret that I’m not a chocolate lover. However, I do enjoy a good brownie, and the lunchbox brownie was a good brownie….nothing spectacular, but better than what you can make from a box, and just about as easy too. When I don’t need a ton, it will make a good alternative to my [...]
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I was kind of dragging my feet when it came to making this recipe…for some reason, it just didn’t look that good to me (probably that silly nut issue again). Had I only known how yummy it would be! I did leave the walnuts out of about 1/3 of the roll, just so that I could [...]
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