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carmen makes: Holiday treats made by friends in SC
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A diary of baked goods, knitted things, and other meticulously crafted creations. Tuesday, December 29, 2009. Holiday treats made by friends in SC. I hope everyone had a great holiday! But I did want to take a minute to share some photos of a couple of my favorite holiday creations other people made that I got to enjoy when I was at home. These are truffles made from Oreos and cream cheese, dipped in white chocolate and decorated with dark chocolate and powdered sugar. The hat is made from a small ch...
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carmen makes: Chocolate-Champagne Truffles
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A diary of baked goods, knitted things, and other meticulously crafted creations. Sunday, December 20, 2009. This weekend I had my chance: my friends went out of town and I got up early to finish my holiday errands before the afternoon shopping rush, leaving one whole day to myself to cook up whatever confection I pleased. Not to mention we had a big beautiful snowfall on Saturday night to make staying in the next day feel even more romantic and cozy. As well as this truffle recipe. Makes about 3 dozen.
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carmen makes: December 2009
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A diary of baked goods, knitted things, and other meticulously crafted creations. Wednesday, December 30, 2009. Pecans are a Southern treat; pop-up stores and mall shopping carts are peddling them all over my hometown during the holidays, and my family is known to ship candied, chocolate-covered, chocolate-and-toffee-covered, and butter-roasted gift sets of them to each other for Christmas, birthdays, and other occasions (a gift card just doesnt remind one of home in quite the same way! Links to this post.
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carmen makes: Baked Alaska
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A diary of baked goods, knitted things, and other meticulously crafted creations. Sunday, January 3, 2010. My friends and I rang in the new year in style, with a potluck-style dinner for which I was happily assigned dessert duty. I don't normally have the opportunity to cook one big thing for a group so I racked my brain for the most extravagant thing I have wanted to make that I could think of; it wasn't hard to decide I wanted to get ambitious and make Baked Alaska. That recipe is available here. I got...
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carmen makes: Lemon Sandwich Cookies
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A diary of baked goods, knitted things, and other meticulously crafted creations. Sunday, January 17, 2010. With all the sandwich-style sweets that have been popping up everywhere in the past couple of months (whoopie pies predicted to be the "dessert trend of 2010". In this popular book. And all over Tastespotting. With me, where we sampled a few of their dainty little cookies. In contrast to the chocolates and the heavy, over-spiced root-vegetable pies of winter. I wanted to make this cookie for my...
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carmen makes: Vegan Chocolate Bundt Cake
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A diary of baked goods, knitted things, and other meticulously crafted creations. Thursday, January 14, 2010. Vegan Chocolate Bundt Cake. This past weekend I attended my first Kirtan chanting event at Laughing Lotus yoga studio. And to get myself hyped up before I went to it, I flipped through the December 2009 issue of Yoga Journal. A lot of my coworkers liked it so much they even asked for the recipe, which I posted after the cut. Vegan Chocolate Bundt Cake. 1 3/4 cup freshly brewed coffee. Heat the co...
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carmen makes: January 2010
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A diary of baked goods, knitted things, and other meticulously crafted creations. Tuesday, January 19, 2010. Carmen Makes on My Frying Pan. Many thanks to Ben. For featuring my cookies on My Frying Pan. Be sure to check out his recipes too. I have my eye on these banana chocolate macadamia nut pancakes. Links to this post. Sunday, January 17, 2010. With all the sandwich-style sweets that have been popping up everywhere in the past couple of months (whoopie pies predicted to be the dessert trend of 2010.
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carmen makes: Oma's Pecan Tarts
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A diary of baked goods, knitted things, and other meticulously crafted creations. Wednesday, December 30, 2009. Pecans are a Southern treat; pop-up stores and mall shopping carts are peddling them all over my hometown during the holidays, and my family is known to ship candied, chocolate-covered, chocolate-and-toffee-covered, and butter-roasted gift sets of them to each other for Christmas, birthdays, and other occasions (a gift card just doesn't remind one of home in quite the same way! Prepare the doug...
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carmen makes: Chocolate-Covered Cherries
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A diary of baked goods, knitted things, and other meticulously crafted creations. Saturday, January 9, 2010. Every Christmas, I give my dad a box of cordial cherries. They're a favorite in his family, probably because his mother used to make them from scratch when he was a kid. I wasn't old enough to try my grandmother's cherries before she passed away, but I do remember my grandfather and my great-grandmother always keeping the boxes of Queen Anne's cherries. Adapted from Allrecipes.com. 1 pound chocola...
