Tag: baking
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Banana Bread Studded with Pears & Chocolate
When I was a little girl, I would avoid eating the bananas my mom kept in the house. I’d let them get brown and freckled in anticipation of what would naturally happen next. She would make banana bread. Unfortunately, at some point, she caught on. One look at this loaf and I think even a…
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Chocolate Pumpkin Muffins
This may be one of my favorite recipes yet. These chocolate pumpkin muffins are tender, and their flavor is complex. When they are fresh out of the oven, each bite is punctuated with pockets of melted chocolate. Also, they can be made relatively quickly. Which makes me wonder, what are you waiting for and when should…
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Strawberry Almond Muffins
Strawberry Almond Muffins taste like the best parts of spring. Slightly nutty and studded with bright berries, these little beauties took me three tries to get right. When making the first batch, I accidentally turned off the oven. The second didn’t have enough flour. Despite the mistakes, every round still tasted pretty good, but in my…
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Explore: Chocolate Cupcakes with Vanilla Whipped Cream Icing
I made these chocolate cupcakes for my friend Sarah’s Oscar party. The recipe is quite simple, and Martha Stewart, who let’s face it knows a thing or two about cakes, created it. I topped each one with vanilla whipped cream, which is light and so easy to make. The effect is classic and fancy, and…