Browsing All posts tagged under »baking«

How Not to Make A Pumpkin Cheesecake

January 4, 2012

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1. Consult recipe. Carefully make a list of ingredients. 2. Shop for the ingredients. Return home. 3. Find the bowl of crushed chocolate wafers in the fridge that you used for a previous recipe. Intend to use them for the crust. Forget if they have already been mixed with sugar and butter. Decide to compromise. […]

Easy Rules for Baking Success

December 10, 2011

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(The following is the sixth in my new series, “Old Posts to Dredge out on Slow Weekends Because When I Posted Them Originally People Cared More About the Economy and World Peace Than My Blog.” Although nothing has changed, it’s the start of a slow weekend.) It’s that time of year, again, when we discover that the flour […]

Chanukah Cookies a la Jonah (17 months) and NeNe (62 years and 17 months)

December 3, 2010

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Chanukah Cookies a la Jonah (17 months) and NeNe (62 years and 17 months)  ½ cup butter 1 cup sugar 1 beaten egg 1 tsp vanilla 1 ½ cups flour ¼ tsp salt 1 ½ tsp baking powder (This recipe is supposed to make 40 2” cookies, but Jonah and NeNe could only get about […]

Easy Rules for Baking Success

August 6, 2010

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LBL loves to bake. Pies. Cakes. Cookies. Clay pots. You name it, she will bake it. Along the way, she has noted several rules that are really important for a successful result: 1. Read a recipe first and see what ingredients you still need before starting to bake.  This will avoid the following when you are […]