Old-Fashioned Cuppa Cuppa Cake is a beloved Southern dessert made with equal parts flour, sugar, and milk layered with fruit and baked until golden brown. Popularized by the movie Steel Magnolias, this easy cobbler-like dessert can be made with peaches, berries, or even canned fruit cocktail for a simple old-fashioned treat.
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Super rainy here today, so time to bake. Here’s a great recipe to bring the wonderful smell of spices into the house. These cookies are addictive and really do make the house smell wonderful.
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I like this puff pastry dessert because it’s easy to pull together and looks like a lot more work than it is. If you can find a top quality puff pastry like Dufour, it really does improve it, But in a clench I’ve used Pepperidge Farms.
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I had been looking at this recipe for a long time, but as I’ve mentioned, I’m not much of a baker. Enter quarantine and I have plenty of time to hone my skills.
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This is a great way to use up any leftover apples or other fruit and handy if you’ve got some canned biscuits laying around as well. I’ve made it with bananas as well and it’s really good. Its super easy to make comes together really quickly.
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I love this cake and it is always a favorite at any gathering. It is rich, easy to prepare, with lovely coconut flavor and so moist. It is from Gaitri Pagrach-Chandra’s amazing book, “Warm Bread and Honey Cake” and it really is worth a try.
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This banana bread happens to be completely dairy-free and egg-free, which also makes it vegan, but that really wasn’t the point when I developed it. I wanted a rich, deeply flavored banana bread that didn’t rely on butter or eggs. The combination of very ripe bananas, brown sugar and maple syrup gives it an almost caramel-like flavor as it bakes.
For people who are lactose intolerant, baking can be a challenge, but this is seriously good and you’ll never miss the dairy or eggs.
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I had this maple sugar hanging around in the cupboard. I had bought it to make some Mennonite cookies and it just never happened, so I decided to figure out how to use it and I thought that maple sugar and sweet potatoes sounded like a great combination and they were indeed.
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