dessert - Half-Size Bakes

Little black cake

If I were doing a keyword search for dessert these days, I'd probably be looking for "rich" and "warm". And "easy". In the aftermath of Thanksgiving, with Christmas baking yet to come, "easy" is definitely high on my list. Hence this pudding cake, which

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Boston cream pie

I don't know what it is about Boston. They seem to have an aversion there to calling things by their right names. I remember my disappointment as a child, when I found out what the "Boston Tea Party" really was. I mean, what kind

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A back number

I have an irrational fascination for old recipes. I love to read them and try to puzzle out what the original authors had in mind. I can spend a lot of time wondering what they might taste like. But often I don't actually try

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By any other name

I grew up calling them "butterscotch brownies". They are also called "blond brownies", or "blondies". If you do an Internet search for them, you'll find a dizzying variety of recipes, and not a lot of agreement on what they should be like. I'll put

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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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Peached

Apparently, I am nothing if not predictable. When I mentioned the other day that I was looking at peach cobbler recipes, my daughter rolled her eyes and informed me that I do this every summer. Every summer, I resolve to find a new cobbler

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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