I don’t eat a ton of cookies, believe it or not. And, I like my cookies plain – Walker’s Shortbread does it all for me. Really, that’s ALL I need for a good cookie, sweet treat fix. Yes, I did love the Samoa chocolate-caramel-coconut cookies in my Girl Scout days of yore – but I…
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The secret to a really good cheesecake or pie is in the crust. It is the base – the foundation – of all good things. Just like pizza – you can’t have a good product without first developing the dough and the groundwork for all the goodstuff. And, I suppose, this is just like life….
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We are living in a crazy, crazy world right now.Sometimes I think I want things to just go back to the way they were – so that I could have my sense of normalcy.Yet, at the same time, the world needed this change. This wake-up call was and has been imperative.Despite the yuck, the anger,…
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I was reminded of my Raspberry White Chocolate Shortbread recipe recently and decided to take a new spin on the original winner. Dessert “bars” are so ever popular, as is the love of cheesecake, so I decided to combine them all into one this time. The use of mascarpone, rather than simple cream cheese, provides just…
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I had great intentions of gifting beautifully sweet mini lavender rose cheesecakes to a dear friend and his daughter. However, sometimes things in life don’t go quite as planned. This was one of those times. But I made it work. And it worked out quite well. Instead of little cheesecakes, these babies became little lavender…
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I’ve been absolutely dying to make this recipe ever since I whipped up a batch of my Easy Blackcurrant Jam. The idea has been spilling out of my head ~ literally ~ I’ve been spouting about it non-stop. Originally the idea was to make this into a cheesecake pie of sorts. I could see the…
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