baking

Bake Back America!

February 29, 2008

Dear Ohio and Texas Readers (of which there may be three of you), I have been giving some thought to the Democratic presidential primary on Tuesday, and I really want y’all to get out and vote if you can. As an incentive, if you go out and vote for whomever you want on Tuesday, and [...]

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Bonna Bake Day 2007

December 23, 2007

For the last several years the Bonna kids and our Bonna Mom get together to bake the Christmas cookies for the upcoming holiday events: Christmas, Scandinavian Christmas and Christmas Eve Brunch. This “holiday” started out as a way for us to learn some of the Norwegian recipes that my grandmother baked for us every year [...]

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Guinness Chocolate Cake

October 23, 2007

I made a Chocolate Stout Cake for my Mom’s Birthday last week. Despite realizing I am not in fact the owner of a bundt pan, as this recipe recommends, it came out rather well. I went with a two layer cake instead and covered it with ganache in the end. Sadly, I don’t have a [...]

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Blueberry Buckle

September 11, 2007

During our recent trip to Maine, we came across a wonderful little blueberry crumb cake. Blueberries + crumb cake? Genius! It seemed like something that would be pretty easy to make, so as soon I got back to Brooklyn I started searching for recipes. Turned out blueberry crumb cake is actually called a blueberry buckle [...]

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