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One true love

My, my, things have been busy. I haven't posted a recipe in months. Oh, I've done plenty of baking, but life keeps distracting me from the important business of recording recipes. This must stop! Herewith, a recipe for Valentine's Day. My love for all

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Great minds don't always think alike

The best thing about self-imposed rules is you can break them whenever you want to. My general rule for what I put on this blog is that it is something I have made and enjoyed enough that I intend to make it again. After

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Spring!

I remember my grandmother as a stout little old lady who walked with a cane. But in her heyday, she loved to bake and was locally famous for her angel food cake. Weddings, picnics, and school outings were all made special by Anna Flanagan's

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Vanilla Beane

My mind wanders a lot when I'm baking. As I was making this cake, I was absently pondering Suzuki Beane, a book I loved when I was a kid. Published in 1961, it is the first-person story of Suzuki, a little girl who lives

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Heart's Desire

Here at Half-Size Bakes, there are certain holidays we always celebrate at home: New Year's Eve, Mother's Day, and Valentine's Day. Even when restaurant dining was a regular part of our lives, we avoided restaurants on those days, which we thought of as the

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Winterlog

Part of the Pandemic Baking Adventure for me has been about trying new things. Back in former days, I would think about trying a new recipe, but I was busy with a lot of other things and just didn't have the mental energy to

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Hail and farewell

Remember back in March? The joke going around then was that we should send the year back and ask for a refund, before the warranty expired. I keep remembering that now, and wondering if we should have tried harder. Just like everyone else, I've

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Perfect Noir

"Because it's so perfectly dark." That's what I said when a friend of mine asked me why I liked The Maltese Falcon. And I stand by that: it is dark. And perfect. And funny in spots. And tragic, and confused. You know. Like a

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A Hallowed Dessert

Host: Welcome to another exciting installment of "Things that go with chocolate"! Today's episode features an intriguing new contestant – a zesty fruit-forward little number that's both a color and a flavor – let's give it up for our guest star: Orange! Orange, tell us a

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Round like a lemon

Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat. – from the folk song "Lemon Tree" by Will HoltWhen I was a kid (a very literal-minded kid, I guess), this lyric used to

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Quarter-pounder for the king

Sean I'd say the best one came from Tupelo Mississippi – The ProclaimersPound cake has a long and venerable history in America, originally brought to the country by colonists from England. Cookbooks were by no means unheard-of, but were far less commonly available than today;

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Joyous

Ever since I was a small child, I have been convinced that chocolate cake is hard to beat. If I'm ever wondering what would make a nice dessert, chocolate cake immediately springs to mind. This cake has the added bonus of a mocha icing:

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Harvest Time

I asked Tech Support what dessert he would like for Father's Day, and he asked for spice cake. He's like that: very fond of old-fashioned bakes like spice cake and peanut-butter cookies. He is a great admirer of the basics, done to perfection. What

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Angelus Cake

Follow my blog with Bloglovin The first thing I did when I got this half-size angel food pan was cackle maniacally over its adorable half-size cuteness. The second thing I did was make chocolate angel food cake. I remembered have made one (full-size) in