Pumpkin Cheesecake with Sugared Pumpkin Seeds

I love a good pumpkin cheesecake, and this one is especially good.  The recipe comes from Food & Wine’s Best of the Best Cookbook Volume 10.  The first thing about this dessert that piqued my…

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Pumpkin Cheesecake with Sugared Pumpkin Seeds

I love a good pumpkin cheesecake, and this one is especially good.  The recipe comes from Food & Wine’s Best of the Best Cookbook Volume 10.  The first thing about this dessert that piqued my…

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Batty Battenburg Cake and Ghoulish Green Punch

This is a fun cake to make.  I made my first Battenburg cake this past spring, and I’ve been itching to make another ever since. If you love the bright flavor of almond (like me!),…

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Batty Battenburg Cake and Ghoulish Green Punch

This is a fun cake to make.  I made my first Battenburg cake this past spring, and I’ve been itching to make another ever since. If you love the bright flavor of almond (like me!),…

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Pumpkin Brown Butter Cupcakes with Cinnamon Frosting

I’m aware that the food world has no shortage of pumpkin cupcake recipes, but I’m sharing this one anyway. It’s my favorite because it doesn’t err on the “muffiny” side.  It is truly a pumpkin…

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Pumpkin Brown Butter Cupcakes with Cinnamon Frosting

I’m aware that the food world has no shortage of pumpkin cupcake recipes, but I’m sharing this one anyway. It’s my favorite because it doesn’t err on the “muffiny” side.  It is truly a pumpkin…

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Poached Pears in Puff Pastry Bed (Like Planting Fall Bulbs)

I love Fall, but it can be bittersweet if you are a gardener. I am not a gardener, but my mother is one of the extraordinary sort.  Her lawn is always impeccable and her flower…

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Sixlets Cake for a Blog Birthday

One year ago I was baking up a scratch-made confetti cake for this blog’s first birthday.  Not only was it fun to make – in a fling-sprinkles-everywhere kind of way – it was incredibly well received.  Many…

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Sixlets Cake for a Blog Birthday

One year ago I was baking up a scratch-made confetti cake for this blog’s first birthday.  Not only was it fun to make – in a fling-sprinkles-everywhere kind of way – it was incredibly well received.  Many…

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Portrait of Poe in Waldorf Astoria Red Velvet

I’ve been absent from the blogosphere for the past couple of weeks; maybe you’ve noticed.  I wish I could tell you that I was on a relaxing vacation, but instead I was recuperating from the worst cold…

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Portrait of Poe in Waldorf Astoria Red Velvet

I’ve been absent from the blogosphere for the past couple of weeks; maybe you’ve noticed.  I wish I could tell you that I was on a relaxing vacation, but instead I was recuperating from the worst cold…

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