Fudgy brownies without butter cut into squares on parchment paper
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Brownies Without Butter

Yes, you can make brownies without butter, and they come out fudgier than you might expect. Swapping butter for oil gives you a dense, chewy brownie with a shiny, crackly…
Creamy green smoothie with oats in a tall glass, topped with rolled oats and a banana slice
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Green Smoothie with Oats

green smoothie with oats A green smoothie with oats is what you make when a plain spinach-and-banana blend leaves you hungry an hour later. The rolled oats add body and…
Slice of small batch hummingbird cake with cream cheese frosting and chopped pecans on a white plate
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Hummingbird Cake

small batch hummingbird cake If you love the idea of hummingbird cake but don't want to bake a giant three-layer cake for two people, this small batch hummingbird cake was…
Glazed baked apple fritters cooling on a wire rack with a bowl of cinnamon apples in the background
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Homemade Apple Fritters

baked apple fritters Baked Apple Fritters (No Deep Fryer Needed!) These baked apple fritters give you all the cozy, cinnamon-apple flavor of the classic fair-food treat, without a single drop…
Small batch apple cinnamon rolls topped with cream cheese icing in a baking dish
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Apple Cinnamon Rolls

small batch apple cinnamon rolls There's something about the smell of cinnamon rolls baking that instantly makes a kitchen feel like fall, and adding real apple pieces to the mix…
How to Roast Pumpkin Seeds
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How to Roast Pumpkin Seeds

It’s officially time to start carving pumpkins, and with carved pumpkins comes pumpkin seeds.  You could, of course, throw these away along with the skanky pumpkin guts with nary a…
How to Make Pie Crust Roses
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How to Make Pie Crust Roses

Today, I bring you part two in my pie crust embellishment series.  This one is probably my personal favorite: roses!  These look really impressive, but as was the case with leaf…
Unicorn Poop Cookies
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Unicorn Poop Cookies

Unicorn Poop Cookies Another week, another cookie. Can anyone really blame me, though? I can’t think of anything more satisfying than a soft, sweet cookie (ok, maybe a warm slice…
Grasshopper Whoopie Pies
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Grasshopper Whoopie Pies

Grasshopper Whoopie Pies — Mint Chocolate Cream Filled Cookie Sandwiches These grasshopper whoopie pies combine rich chocolate cookies with a fluffy mint marshmallow cream filling. Easy homemade recipe using fresh…
Pomegranate Lime Tart
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Pomegranate Lime Tart

Pomegranate Lime Tart - Mastery Guide For Baking - Pro Tips - Easy Baking For Beginners Back in July, my husband and I went to a barbecue at his research…
Crumb Cake
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New York Crumb Cake Recipe

New York Crumb Cake Recipe — Easy Homemade Entenmann's Style Coffee Cake I’ve been thinking a lot about my grandparents lately, and all the little things that remind me of…
Spiced Apple Pie
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Spiced Apple Pie

Spiced Apple Pie Recipe — Easy Homemade Apple Pie with Pie Spice Spiced Apple Pie recipe in Apple season is upon is, so naturally that means it is the season…
Chocolate Cherry Cake with Molasses Cream Cheese Frosting
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Chocolate Cherry Cake

Chocolate Cherry Cake with Molasses Cream Cheese Frosting - Pro Mastery Guide For Baking - Beginner To Pro - Best Tips For Baking We’re finally at the end of the summer…
Caramel Apple Cupcakes
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Caramel Apple Cupcakes

Caramel Apple Cupcakes - Easy Baking Recipe - Home Baking Tips - Mastery Guide For Baking Caramel apples may start disappearing from grocery stores soon, but that doesn’t mean that…
Bear Claws- Attempt 2 (The Easy Way)
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Bear Claws

Bear Claws - Easy Recipe For Bear Claws - Chocolate Bear Claws I still plan to conquer puff pastry in the future, but considering the results I got from the…
Rock N’ Roll Cookies
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Rock N’ Roll Cookies

Rock N’ Roll Cookies With Frosted Almond Fingernails - How To Make - Easy Home Baking Tips & Tricks These cookies have been in the pipeline since before I started this…
New and Improved Strawberry Pie
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Strawberry Pie

Easy Recipe of Strawberry Pie - Make Strawberry Pie At Home -Pro Tips You might recall that my husband and I created a chocolate strawberry pie many moons ago that we ended up…
Adventures in Mirror Glaze
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Adventures in Mirror Glaze

Adventures in Mirror Glaze / Easy Home Baking Recipe / Pro Tips For Mastery In Baking I finally got around to trying out mirror glaze, and I must say that I…
Yggdrasil Braided Bread
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Yggdrasil Braided Bread

Yggdrasil Braided Bread typically refers to a robust, multi-stranded braided loaf inspired by Nordic mythology and medieval Scandinavian baking traditions. It is an enriched dough (often using ingredients like dark…
Pan de Muerto
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Pan de Muerto

Pan De Muerto-Day of the Dead Bread- Easy Recipe - 40 Minutes Easy Recipe This week, I wanted to bake something for what has become one of my favorite holidays: Day…
Caramel Apple Pie
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Caramel Apple Pie

Caramel Apple Pie/ How to make " Caramel Apple Pie" Easy Baking Recipe / Homemaking Fall weather seems to have come and gone, and somehow I haven’t published an apple…
Mary Berry’s Lemon Drizzle Cake
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Mary Berry’s Lemon Drizzle Cake

Posted onAugust 17, 2018 by Katie Gaffen We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you another Great British Baking Show classic: Mary Berry’s signature lemon drizzle cake!  I wanted to try…
Macarons: Round Two
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Macarons- Easy Recipe

Macarons- Easy Recipe / Home Baking / How To Bake Macrons At Home As I mentioned previously, I wasn’t about to let macarons get me down.  After the first failed attempt,…
Baking Fail: Macarons
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Baking Fail: Macarons

I finally decided to surrender to the trend and try my hand at macarons.  I knew it would be difficult, but I secretly expected that as long as I was careful,…
Grapefruit Oatnut Muffins
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Grapefruit Oatnut Muffins

Happy New Year!  I hope everyone’s off to a great start to 2016 so far (and adjusting faster to writing 2016 in dates than I am)!  I don’t know about…
Red Velvet Beet Brownies
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Red Velvet Beet Brownies

Red Velvet Beet Brownies - How to make Red Velvet Beet Brownies - Easy Recipe Home Baking I bake interesting and delicious things all the time (if I do say so myself), but…
Pecan Lace Sandwich Cookies
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Pecan Lace Sandwich Cookies

Pecan Lace Sandwich Cookies / Easy Recipe / Pro Tips / Mastery Guide Christmas really snuck up on my this year.  Thanksgiving happened, and then BAM!  Everyone was posting pictures on…
Pumpkin Spice Rugelach
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Pumpkin Spice Rugelach

Pumpkin Spice Rugelach - Easy Home Making- Pro Tips To Mastery In Baking - Home Baking Happy Hanukkah to all who celebrate! In case you’re jonesing for some cookies that…
Cinnamon Tart
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Cinnamon Tart

Cinnamon Tart Recipe — Silky Brown Sugar Custard Tart (Easy & Foolproof) If you have ever wanted a dessert that tastes like pure cinnamon in every single bite, this cinnamon…
Buffalo Bagel Chips
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Buffalo Bagel Chips

Buffalo Bagel Chips/ How to make " Buffalo Bagel Chip" / Best Snacks While Watching Football Match Sorry for the delay today! Life got in the way a bit this…
Summer Peach Cookies
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Summer Peach Cookies

Summer Peach Cookies / Easy Home Making Tips / Pro Mastery Guide In Baking / Sometime in the past two weeks, the idea popped into my head to do a…
Bake N’ Take Personal Quiches
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Bake N’ Take Personal Quiches

Over the past few months, I’ve developed the habit of cooking a large batch of something-or-other over the weekend, dividing it into portions, and taking one portion to work with…
Belmont Jewel Cupcakes
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Belmont Jewel Cupcakes

This past weekend, American Pharoah became the twelfth horse to win the Triple Crown, and the first to do so in 38 years.  It also happened to be the first year…
Rainbow Cinnamon Rolls
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Rainbow Cinnamon Rolls

Unless you live under a rock, you’re probably aware by now that our country made a historic advance in equality last week.  I was in the mood to celebrate, so I decided…
American Flag Cherry Blueberry Pie
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Homemade Fruit Medley Pie

Once again, we had a holiday weekend to celebrate with themed baked goods. Independence Day also happens to be my grandmother-in-law’s birthday, so I had the perfect excuse to make…
Watermelon Slice Cookies
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Watermelon Slice Cookies

Watermelon Slice Cookies / How to make it Recipie We’ve made it to the third and final week of our Christmas Cookies in July series! I was hoping to get…
Root Beer Float Meringue Cookies
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Root Beer Float Meringue Cookies

I Wanna Bake’s “Christmas Cookies in July” series continues this week with some delightful root beer float meringue cookies.  I adapted the recipe from Joy of Cooking’s meringue kisses recipe to better…