With holiday parties just around the corner, you’ll be needing some quick festive cakes at some point. This sparkly, whimsical cake can be decorated in less than…

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This holiday season here at KAF, we’ve been making merry with our delightful new cookie cutter, a classic roly-poly snow globe. I can’t begin to tell you the fun we’ve had creating our own versions of these kitschy vacation souvenirs. In fact…

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Double, double  toil and trouble, oven burn and icing bubble. Umm, well, not quite but I tried. Poetry may not be my thing but cookies are and have I got some great news for you.

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We’ve all had it happen to us. The last-minute phone call… the desperate party host… “HELP! I NEED A CAKE!”

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I adore my small-town Vermont life, I really do. Every week, every season has some special occasion or event that reminds me of how nice it is to live where just like that famous fictional Boston bar, “everybody knows your name.”

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“PJ, you need to decorate some fancy cupcakes for a Valentine’s blog post.”

ARGHHHH! Those two little words I (don’t) long to hear–

“Decorate.” “Fancy.”

I immediately go into whine mode.

“Can’t MaryJane do it? She’s SUCH an artist, so good at all that… stuff.”

All that picky, intricate, delicate, SUPREMELY IRRITATING DECORATING STUFF.

For which I have all the patience of a 4-year-old at a birthday party…

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As I write this, snow is falling outside our windows, changing the landscape from stark December black, brown, and gray to a softer mixture of white, pewter, and beige. The driving is horrible; for some of us, this morning’s normal 45-minute commute turned into a 3-hour nightmare of skids, slides, and slow progress. Nevertheless: it’s beautiful. Vermont’s snow-covered hills and mountains are just plain postcard-picture pretty.

Snow also makes the kitchen a warm and welcome hideaway, a refuge from the storm outside. Our King Arthur test kitchen (more…)