Treats
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Small Happy Things on my 43rd Birthday
I'm 43 today! That's a good number I think. A good age. I decided I just wanted a quiet birthday in this year because sometimes alone is my favorite way to spend a day. Must be an only-child thing. This lovely cake was made for me by my friends Meg & Zach and their most-beautiful-baby-in-the-world,
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Moose & Carrots
What do you get if you combine this (photo above) with this… And this… Give up? Ta-da! A 3 layer Carrot Cake! Which was made possible thanks to my daughter hand-grating 4 cups of carrots. 🙂 Here's the recipe: Carrot Cake Slightly modified from Maida Heatter's Great Book of American Desserts 1 cup raisins1 pound
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Irish Soda Bread
In looking up the origins of this bread, I found out this version might also be called "Spotted Dog". No matter whatcha call it though – tasty! I found the recipe here while browsing through Foodgawker. There must be about a zillion variations on this recipe, but I can vouch for this one and will
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Chocolate Crinkles
Not that we need anymore cookies after the holiday indulgence. But tonight we decided to make just one more batch. :) Love these chewy chocolate cookies. They manage to be both fudgy (sp?) & kinda light. Yum! Other than baking this evening, I've been working on several paintings. I have quite a few in-progress that
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Fall (Winter?) Baking
These are some of the lovely apples picked by my neighbor and her girls last Sunday…during our first snow! (Thankfully the snow didn't stick, but dang that was early.) They were nice enough to share the harvest with me, so I pulled out my favorite cookbook and made mini-apple pies. They're about 6" across and
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Nipping, Tucking & Baking
It may look like just any old shirt, but really it shows the results of my first "tweaking" job. I can't quite say it was a sewing job because I didn't make the shirt from scratch. But I did alter it to fit! I loved the shirt in general, but it was a way-too-big-for-me thrift
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Easter Delivery
Preparing some little Easter goodies for my co-workers. These were so fun and simple to put together! I started with the muslin gift bags from Flirtdeux shop on Etsy. Then just tucked in a bit of pale pink paper Easter grass and a chocolate bunny. The tags are made from images downloaded from Vintage Images
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Chocolate Nests
Love that little hen. :) You'll see more of those as I post the rest of my Easter basket project here soon. Did a bit of baking today. Well, maybe not baking so much as chocolate melting/stirring/squishing into muffin pans. Does that count? ♥
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Chocolate Chai Spice Cupcakes
Quite tasty! Another wonderful recipe from the Cupcake Blog. {This one was from back in her May 2006 archives.} They had a great, not-too-sweet, and kind of complicated flavor. I'm not sure if "complicated" is the right word exactly, but it's the one that comes to mind to describe how the fresh spices blend together
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Sweets
Normally, we don't have this much candy in the house. Really! :) This weekend though, we set up to decorate… Gingerbread houses! I've wanted to make one for years, but never quite get around to baking the house. Since they had these cute & already assembled ones at the grocery store, I decided to take