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How To Make Blueberry Muffins

Blueberry Muffins with Streusel Topping

I have no hesitation when I say that blueberry muffins are the best muffins in all of Muffin-Land. I mean, they’re perfect. Sweet enough to be a dessert, but still (kinda) healthy enough to be an okay breakfast, especially if you make them with whole wheat flour and serve with an omelet or some fruit [...]

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Strawberry Shortcake Recipe

StrawBunny Shortcakes

You know those cellophane bags of “shortcakes” you can pick up in the produce section, usually right next to the plastic sacks of “strawberry” glaze? Well, I have some bad news. I destroyed all of those in several small arson jobs. And I infested the factories than make them with toucans. I know, I know, [...]

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Guinness Cupcakes with Bailey's Butter Cream

Chocolate Guinness Cupcakes with Bailey’s Buttercream

Listen up because I’m about to tell you about the secret ingredient for the most moistest and deliciousest chocolate cupcakes in the Whole Ding-Dong Wuuurld! I first had these, or a version of them, at the Austin Bakes for Bastrop fundraiser we volunteered at last year. A fellow Austinite made hers for the sale and [...]

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Grapefruit Pie!

Still rocking the free Rio Star grapefruits I got from TexaSweet, I started thinking about some pie. I searched high and low until my fingers fell off and my eyes started bleeding, but the only recipes I could find for “grapefruit pie” involved strawberry gelatin. While I’m sure that’s a great recipe – why else [...]

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Peanut Butter Banana Cookies

NutterBallerz – Peanut Butter Banana Cookies

Gather round, ye nut-lovers, and hear this tale of how the Nutter Baller came to be among our fleshly bodies. That sounded gross. I apologize. I hope you’re still here so I can just tell you about this cookie that FAMOUS PASTRY CHEF ZAC YOUNG told me to make. He told me to make a [...]

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Pepperoni Pizza

Homemade Pizza … At Home!

I never made pizza at home before shooting this episode. I also had never had such delicious, perfect pizza anywhere before shooting this episode. Thanks to Brandon of Via 313 pizza, I now can make my own wicked-good pizza at home ANY TIME I WANT TO (provided I have a premonition to make the dough the [...]

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Ginger Snap Cookies Recipe

Gingersnap Cookies

Somebody please shoot me before I eat all these cookies. I really can’t stop and it’s getting to be a problem. If you enjoy the problem of irresistible cookies, then these gingersnaps are for you. They are snappy! They are gingery! They are really really good with milk and this coming from someone who doesn’t [...]

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Spicy Parmesan Poofballs, or Gougères

To Begin: Pâte à Choux, aka Choux Pastry I first learned how to make Shoe Pastry when I was living in New Zealand, dating the ChefBoy, and learning all kinds of neat-o Real Chef Things. Things such as: It’s actually spelled choux pastry. It took me more time that I care to admit to figure [...]

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