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Jalapeño Cheddar Bagels

Posted in bread, breakfast, tagged bagels, baking, cheddar, cream cheese, jalapeño, recipe, vegan on May 16, 2011 | 7 Comments »

I love bagels. It has been said that the road to my heart is paved with bagels. This is quite possibly true. Well, bagels and cupcakes. Cream cheese always weirded me out, and so I didn’t try it until my freshman year of college. I was headed back to school and my boyfriend at the [...]

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Mexican Chocolate Cupcakes

Posted in dessert, tagged baking, buttercream, cayenne, chocolate, cinnamon, cupcakes, recipe, vegan on January 24, 2011 | 15 Comments »

If there was ever a sassy cupcake, this would be the one. A dash (well, maybe more) of peppery cayenne, a sprinkle (okay, more than that) of spicy sweet cinnamon and the smoothness of the delectable chocolate. I used your traditional moist and rich chocolate crazy-cake recipe as the base, just adding the cinnamon and [...]

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Florentine Cookies

Posted in dessert, tagged almond, baking, caramel, chocolate, cookie, Italian, orange, recipe, vegan on December 26, 2010 | 9 Comments »

Have you ever had a florentine? A lacy, crisp little cookie with caramelized sugar, almonds, and a swirl of dark chocolate. These are one of my husband’s all-time favorite cookies. They sell them in a quaint little bakery in Boston’s Italian North End neighborhood that is both a local favorite and a magnet for tourists. [...]

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