All Posts Tagged With: "Baked Goods"

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Cut-Out Shortbread Cookies

If you haven’t noticed yet, it’s already mid-October. Amazing how time flies. It is now time for holiday season food and themes! At least in my house… This weekend my younger brother and I made these cookies and spent quite a while decorating them. I wanted to practice decorating for future Christmas cookie baking, and he [...]

12Oct2008 | | 6 comments | Continued
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Chocolate Whoopie Pies with Marshmallow Filling

Oreo Cakesters, meet your nemesis: Megan’s Whoopie Pies. I can only imagine what my life would have been like years ago if I would have had these during lunch in elementary school. Amazing, probably. The traditional whoopie pie is usually made with a shortening based vanilla filling. I find that too sweet and sometimes too grainy, so [...]

8Oct2008 | | 2 comments | Continued
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Peach Queen Cake with Dulce de Leche Buttercream Frosting

I had the wonderful privilege of spending several days this summer in North Carolina with my two brothers. We love the mountains and wanted to get away and go hiking. We rented out a beautiful, quaint cabin in Weaverville, which was about 15 minutes from Asheville. Asheville is one of my favorite cities because the [...]

5Oct2008 | | 4 comments | Continued
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Chocolate Chip Cookies: Extreme Sugars

Believe me when I say these are the some of the best chocolate chip cookies I’ve ever had. They have the texture, chewiness, and brown sugar taste chocolate chip cookie lovers crave. The secret ingredients are Demerara sugar, dark muscovado (MUSK-A-VEY-DOH) sugar, and toasted oats. These sugars may be unique and unheard of to most people. But [...]

5Oct2008 | | 1 comment | Continued
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Triple Chocolate Scones

I baked these scones the other day and I couldn’t believe their lightness. Yes, they are “triple chocolate”, but they are not overwhelmingly decadent and manage to retain a delicate taste. Despite the added chocolate, these are more traditional than my Cinnamon Roll Scones. Better yet, each scone only has half a tablespoon of butter! Use light hands [...]

4Oct2008 | | 1 comment | Continued
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Southern Comfort Apple Pie

Last week my brother and I went to a local U-Pick apple orchard and loaded up on apples. It’s always been something our family does each Fall. We left the orchard with three sacks of apples and a nice jug of apple cider (orchards always have the BEST cider). Apples are great for picking because [...]

18Sep2008 | | 3 comments | Continued