As many of you have probably guessed, I love using fruit and/or vegetables in my baking, whether it’s in this Apple Cinnamon Coffee Cake, these heavenly Dark Chocolate Pumpkin Scones, my personal favorite–Peach Pie, or even these tragically failed blackberry squares. It’s my way of clinging to some last vestiges of healthiness and nutritional value whilst I
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Category Archive: ‘Desserts & Sweet Stuff’
Happy Chinese New Year, everyone! The Year of the Horse starts tomorrow, and being a Horse myself on the 12-year Chinese Zodiac cycle, this is only the second time it’s happened in my lifetime. It also–disturbingly–means that according to the Chinese calendar, I’m 24 years old. At 24, my dad was gearing up for his
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This is pumpkin granola is our family’s favorite granola recipe. It’s relatively low in sugar and fat compared to other similar recipes, and the inclusion of the pumpkin gives the granola the perfect crunchy, slightly “clumpy” consistency. We’ve tried the egg white trick that other cluster-loving bloggers and granola aficionados have suggested, but I’ve found
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The house is officially occupied again! We’ve all made the pilgrimage back to NJ for Christmas, and the holiday shenanigans have officially started. We barely had time to remove the thin layer of dust on the furniture and crank up the heat and hot water before it was time to break out the butter and
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I’ll keep the intro short on this one, folks. A couple months ago, I made this pie for the first time. My dad, the world’s nit-pickiest pie eater, with over forty years’ pie eating experience, named it the best pumpkin pie he’d ever had. It was there on Thanksgiving, and in all likelihood will be
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We’ve been having a bit of an obsession lately with 2 things: 1) King Arthur Flour’s baking blog Flourish, and 2) pumpkin. We’ve done their pumpkin doughnuts (or at least, a reasonable facsimile involving mini muffin pans and a creative muffin-to-doughnut hole mental transference) already, but our craving for the bright orange gourd continues! Today, we’re
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It’s October. Which means that although fall officially began on September 22, only now am I having visions of orange leaves swirling in the wind, hay rides, and apple cider. Which made me get really homesick, because back in NJ, we live just five minutes away from an apple orchard and cider doughnuts that make
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Heyyy ya’lllllllll (I like to pretend to be southern when making, talking about, and/or eating peach pie. It’s the whole Georgia peach thing, I think). I’m weird. Told you we’d have a peach pie recipe up on the blog before long. We made this pie in honor of the amazing local peaches that we have
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