A simple decorating idea to welcome Spring, although I’m not really sure Spring came to the party because it is snowing right now here in Vermont. The wonders of New England haha. But these cupcakes, so bright and cheerful, lifted my spirits. There’s something about cupcakes that bring smiles to every face, so I […]
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Welcome to something completely different from my usual blog posts! I couldn’t resist the recipe challenge Healthy Solutions Spice Blends presented; I love trying new things and I love spice :). I’m not as confident in my cooking skills as my baking ones; I almost always follow a recipe with maybe a few tweaks here
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St. Patrick’s Day was yesterday, a day of copious drinking and revelry, but here at the LVB, we don’t use beer for drinking; that’s just silly. Beer is for baking! 🙂 My little brother, the expert on all things beer, and knowing I like the stout, got me this bottle of Speedway
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Happy Pi Day! Tomorrow, being March 14, or 3.14 is the celebration of the mathematical constant Pi. But tomorrow is even special-er than special in Pi day celebrations, because tomorrow’s date is 3.14.15 and the first five digits of the mathematical representation of pi is 3.1415. Such a day as this only comes about once
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I love pancakes. They remind me of lazy Sunday mornings and always make me smile. The one thing that’s always a struggle with pancakes and family breakfasts though is that they’re best fresh off the stove and so devouring of said pancakes becomes a staggered eating event and it seems one person is always stuck
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I don’t have any fun stories today, or baking adventures to relate, although I did make this cake several times before settling on just the right combination of spices and tweaking the recipe a couple times to get the texture perfect. But it was a rather mundane process; I mean I found it fun,
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