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Hot stuff! Crème brûlée cake
Crème brûlée… cake? Isn’t crème brûlée that rich, inch-thick slab of vanilla cream covered with a crackly-crisp, caramelized sugar crust? Yes. So how does cake enter into this? The King Arthur Flour...
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Pizzelle with pizzazz!
Ah, Easter! Another holiday, another occasion to make pizzelle. I didn’t grow up Italian; I never heard of, saw, or tasted a pizzelle till after I’d married my Italian husband, and began visiting...
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Take a walk on the wild side: Zebra Cake
Do you remember the first time you made a marble cake? I do. I remember thinking it was the coolest thing in the world to blob the chocolate batter into the vanilla batter like the 5 pips on a die....
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For Valentine’s Day: VERY vanilla cheesecake bars
Love at first bite. SUCH an overworked expression, but still… when you’re talking cheesecake, the tiniest bite is capable of sending you into paroxysms of ardor. The richness of the cream cheese! The...
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B-I-N-G-O spells delicious: Salted vanilla-caramel icing
Blame it all on Bingo. No, not Bingo the game but Bingo the dog. You know Bingo, right? He’s the dog on the Cracker Jack box, along with Sailor Jack. I think those two characters played a large role...
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Kickoff to summer: frozen yogurt
Although summer doesn’t officially begin until June 21, I’ve always considered Memorial Day the real kickoff to the season. Having put away the fleece (at last) and resurrected the outdoor furniture...
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Gluten-Free Yellow Cake: as good as…? No comparisons necessary!
Isn’t this just the nicest looking yellow cake? Close/fine texture, yet still moist; high-rising, not crumbly… and the crown of chocolate doesn’t hurt, either! I’ve surveyed a number of people...
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Vanilla Sugar Cookies: it takes a community to build a cookie.
AJ Quigley, a regular on King Arthur’s Baking Circle community, emailed us this recipe with the following message – “I ran across one of my favorite sugar cookie recipes years ago in one of those...
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Gluten-Free Orange-Vanilla Shortbread: lots of cookie without the crumble.
I could sense some doubt when I mentioned making a gluten-free shortbread. I heard, “You can’t do that, it just won’t work” enough times to almost start believing it myself. I was like the kid who was...
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Vanilla Rice Pudding: The best there’s ever bean
A few years ago, I wrote a blog about bread pudding and how until I had my first bowlful, I wanted nothing to do with it. For a long time, I felt the same way about rice pudding, Rice to me belonged...
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Double-Vanilla Whoopie Pies: move over, chocolate
Growing up, I was an inveterate chocolate lover. Chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. Oreos. Chocolate cream pie. And, of course, chocolate ice cream. My brother, on the other hand, was Mr....
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Elvis has left the building. But the cake’s still here.
Did you know that Elvis’ favorite cake, one he enjoyed on his birthday AND at Christmas every year, was vanilla pound cake? I grew up loving chocolate cake. Still do. But over the years I’ve also...
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Strawberries and Balsamic à la Mode: not your average ice cream sundae
Move over hot fudge and butterscotch, we’re breaking the rules and giving you a run for your money. Sprinkles and whipped cream need not apply. You must dare to try this unlikely combination of sweet...
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Gluten-Free Rollout Cookies with Apple Cider Glaze
Have you given up your favorite holiday cookie decorating tradition along with gluten? Were you thinking rollout cookies were an unattainable luxury of the past? I’d like to change your mind. I’ve...
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Naked Apple-Vanilla Pie
Even those of us who like to make pie crusts don’t always want to make pie crust. Some days I just want to make a nice bowl of filling, cook that up and eat it with the ice cream topping it was born to...
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Vanilla White Chocolate Drops
Believe it or not, there are people in this world who prefer vanilla to chocolate. I’m not one of them; but I have to admit, I sometimes waver. Especially when confronted with a dish of homemade...
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The Icing on the Cake
In the beginning, there was cake. Or maybe there was icing. Perhaps frosting? Wait, wait, maybe glaze came first? Forget the chicken and the egg: think cake. For every cake and every occasion there’s...
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Vanilla Sea Salt
It isn’t very often that two simple ingredients come together in a new way that changes the essence of both, while still allowing each to shine. But such IS the case with simply amazing Vanilla Sea...
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Fudge Swirl Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream
What do Wavy Gravy, Zen Butter, Creamed Cod, and Kitty Kitty Bang Bang all have in common? Believe it or not, they’re all ice cream flavors. As Bill Shakespeare once wrote, “What’s in a name? That...
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Gluten-Free Strawberry-Vanilla Whoopie Pies
Whoopie pies? Whoop-dee-do! That’s how I USED to feel about them. But things are different now between me and the big whoop, and I’ll tell you why. I’ve had gluten-free whoopie pies on my task list for...
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