posts tagged ‘caramel’

Caramel Stuffed Snickerdoodles: Taking your favorites one step further.

Recipe: Snickerdoodles

In the past, if I were to choose to make a batch of cookies, any flavor I wanted, I must confess Snickerdoodles would not have been at the top of the list. I mean, they’re fine, OK, pretty good.

And then PJ created her Superdoodles. I started to love Snickerdoodles more and more. But could I make them into a cookie I craved?

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Pecan & Salted Caramel Candies: turtle love.

Recipe: Pecan & Salted Caramel Candies

Just four simple players: caramel, chocolate, pecans, and sea salt.

Yet the the beautiful music these four friends make together – soft with crunchy, salty with sweet, nutty with chocolate with caramel – you’d think you were hearing a symphony, rather than a string quartet.

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Chocolate caramel stuffed monkey bread: It’s National Bundt Cake Day!

Recipe: Chocolate Caramel Stuffed Monkey Bread

Hurray, hurray, it’s a happy day! Today, November 15th is National Bundt Cake day. Join us for a quick look at turning your favorite sweet dough recipe into a choco-caramel filled bundt-tastic celebration of the day.

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Apple Upside-Down Cake: decidedly decadent!

Recipe: Apple Upside-Down Cake

Don’t you want to just pick up your fork and stab the computer screen right about now?

This apple upside-down cake, with its drizzle – no, make that a flood – of apple-flavored caramel, oozing over the top and dripping down the sides, is probably the most over-the-top apple dessert I’ve ever eaten.

Never mind probably; it IS the most ridiculously delicious apple anything I’ve ever had.

Trust me, it was SO tough when Sue and Andrea, my fellow test kitchen bakers, were testing this recipe. And testing, and testing, and testing…

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Cinnamon Buns: InSPIREd baking

Recipe: Cinnamon Rolls, Caramel-Nut Cinnamon Buns

Are you ready for some fun buns?

Cinnamon buns usually bring a smile to your face, but these bring a great big grin – maybe a little lopsided, but a smile as wide and high as a country mile. read the rest of this entry »

Florentiners à la Mama: Gesine Bullock-Prado comes to visit

Recipe: Florentiners à la Mama

I’m sure each of us in our own time have experienced serendipitous events where something fine and good and true arises from a sad or stressful situation. Sometimes it’s a small thing, like…

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B-I-N-G-O spells delicious: Salted vanilla-caramel icing

Recipe: Salted Vanilla Caramel Icing

Blame it all on Bingo. No, not Bingo the game but Bingo the dog. You know Bingo, right?

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New Orleans pecan pie bread pudding: soft and sweet as a Southern breeze

Recipe: New Orleans Pecan Pie Bread Pudding

I still remember my first bread pudding, back in the early 1990s…

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Caramel cheesecake: A backrub for bakers

Recipe: Caramel Pecan Cheesecake

I know how hard you’ve been working lately. Between getting ready for winter, cooking and baking for Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Oh, My Aching Back Tuesday, it’s all been sitting on your shoulders.  Personally, I think you deserve a break…

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Carol’s caramel corn: A sweet treat from a sweet lady

Recipe: Carol’s Caramel Corn

What could be better than a big bowl of freshly popped popcorn topped with a little butter and salt? Well honestly not much; but for me, my friend Carol Colby’s caramel corn rates tops on the list.

I’ve known Carol pretty much since I moved to town 16 years ago. She worked at the local post office; and before I met her, I was fascinated by her waist-length red hair. It was just lovely, and so is Carol. read the rest of this entry »