I had to test my new handmixer and I could not let all the eggs and milk I had left over from baking cookies go to waste. Plus, I was visiting with one of my favorites today. So I made some cupcakes! Green Tea Cupcakes with Blackberry Buttercream to be exact. I used this recipe as a start,...

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This morning I was faced with two tasks. Figuring out what to do with all our leftovers and spending gift cards online. I've been pinning some possible gift card options all morning in between thinking about the giant mass of ham in the fridge. So what were we going to do with the 28 pounds of ham sent...

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I started baking at about 10 am and finished up at about 4:30pm. I baked mostly from a vintage cookie cookbook I picked up a couple weeks ago, and I ended up with some adorable treats! I had trouble finding baking powder and baking soda (probably because tomorrow is Christmas eve), so I made recipes that avoided them......

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However you spell it, this was an ambitious first attempt at baking these french confections.  First things first, Andrea and I spent a torturous morning at the Market District collecting ingredients, fighting crowds, and getting overheated. Everything was so easy when it came to deciding on flavors, grinding up the almonds, beating the egg whites, making the batter,...

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