Brownies, Cookies, Bars

How Chocolate Angel Food Cake with Bourbon Caramel Sauce became Brownies with Bourbon Caramel Frosting

If you’ve visited this blog for a bit, you know I live in Denver, Colorado. One mile high. Five thousand two hundred and eighty feet above sea level. Sea level being the place where recipes are written and then folks ‘up in the air’ have to revise for our altitude. I get it; I’ve been [...]

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Strawberry Squares

This recipe for strawberries that are mixed with egg whites, whipping cream and sugar and then frozen between layers of crunchy nuts was a favorite of mine a long time ago. I still remember the reason I didn’t make it very often though and why it eventually lost favor with me. It was a mess [...]

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Pistachio & Cambozola Cheese Sables with Denver Sausage & Wine for #Baketogether and #HappyHourFriday

Pistachio and Cambozola Cheese Sables with Denver Sausage and Wine

This weeks Happy Hour Friday is a bit different and I hope you’ll enjoy it; after all, beverages are only one component of Happy Hour and we need the accompanying foods too, right? I participate in a monthly event called #Baketogether that was started by my friend Abby Dodge. Abby is a former pastry chef [...]

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Homemade Biscoff Cookies with Biscoff Cream Cheese Frosting

Did you hear the roar when it was discovered that Biscoff Cookies (a conglomeration of the words Biscuit and Coffee) were first discovered available on store shelves. No longer relegated simply to passengers flying Delta Airlines; Biscoff cookies were now in STORES. Not many as it turns out but still, with some effort and a [...]

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Larimer Toffee Squares

Larimer Square is a bustling street in downtown Denver, one of those chi chi one block streets that harken to days when cities had main streets and you could go there to find a gathering of merchants. It was in fact the first main street in Denver, born during the gold rush of the mid [...]

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Christmas Meringue Cookies with White Chocolate Decorations

Have you tried macarons? You know…they are ALL the rage. I have and I’m left nonplussed. I thought maybe it was me, you know, a novice at the craft. The French cookie that requires seemingly perfect ingredients, perfect proportions and I’m sure, perfect altitude. I tried, I really did but even if I mastered the [...]

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Toffee Apple Bars with Caramel Frosting

A friend I’ve met on Twitter asked if I would do a guest post for her blog after the birth of her second child. How could I refuse? I met Kate and her blog Food Babbles when we both started participating in Abby Dodge’s #baketogether, an initiative by the lovely Abby that allows a group [...]

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MY Best – Brown Butter and Molasses Chocolate Chip Cookies #baketogether

Really…I’m not on a tangent about BESTS all of a sudden, it just happens that after a discussion on how I best like to make mashed potatoes that I wanted to post these cookies. I have tried so many recipes that people proclaim as the best. Whether they really think they are or are simply [...]

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Crash-O-Cookies from Dorie Greenspan

Dorie Greenspan lives in the realm of super hero for me. She’s shown not just great talent but also longevity as a recipe developer and cookbook author. Where I once ‘just’ knew her as a contributor to Bon Appétit magazine (I have been a subscriber for 35 years!) and a cookbook author, now through the [...]

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Dark Chocolate Brownies with Espresso, Toasted Walnuts and Salted Caramel Glaze

I seem to have food magazines everywhere. Bedroom, bathroom, foyer table, family room and or course kitchen…really, just everywhere. Sometimes they’ve been around long enough I see past them and that’s surely the case with the one where I got the basics for this absolutely decadent brownie. Food and Wine, July 2010. It had been [...]

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Salted Chocolate Toffee Squares

If there is one thing I’ve been in love with forever, it’s toffee. I think a Heath Bar resulted in my first need to have a cavity filled when I was a girl and nothing has changed. I love a brand of toffee made locally called Enstrom’s (though miss the days before they become so [...]

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Lemon Curd Squares with Rosemary – ‘In the Kitchen with A Good Appetite’

I bought several cookbooks in December, some for my birthday and others for Christmas (great excuses to get things I want for me!) and I’ve fallen in love with ‘In the Kitchen with A Good Appetite’ by Melissa Clarke who writes for the New York Times Dining Section. And that romance started long before I [...]

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Happy New Year and our Most Popular Posts of 2010!

The last day of the year, 2010. It’s been one heck of a year. For me, too much of it spent rehabilitating from the most serious injury I’ve ever had but thankful that it’s getting better, that my family is healthy and that I’ve been able to stay in touch with the ‘outside’ world through [...]

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The Best Sugar Cookies

For many years I would spend days each holiday season making decorated sugar cookies. I started the tradition in my twenties with a girlfriend and we made hundreds of cookies that we rolled, cut out, decorated and gave to friends. I continued on with that tradition for many years when my kids where small and [...]

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Pecan Butter Balls, Russian Tea Cakes or Mexican Wedding Cookies?

These cookies were made for our family by my Grandma Lizette every year that I can remember. I continued the tradition growing up and have made them with my children and for holiday gifts every year. No matter how busy the holiday season, not one has gone by that this cookie isn’t at the top [...]

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