Jane M. posted an article on Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal - Dec 11, 2009, 1:30 pm
Well, it's two weeks until the big day and there's no denying that bakers of all stripes are now in the thick of hardcore cookie-production. Can't you just hear the well-oiled gears of the...
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Jane M. posted an article on Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal - Dec 4, 2009, 12:40 pm
Just as night leads to day, so Thanksgiving led me to this recipe. Thanksgiving? Yes, that's right. We spent Thanksgiving afternoon and evening with my husband's family (my mom- and dad-in-law...
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Jane M. posted an article on Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal - Nov 27, 2009, 12:19 pm
Did I tell you that I recently joined the Daring Bakers? Well I did, and this month I took part in my first challenge recipe--cannoli! Just in case you're reading this and you're unfamiliar ...
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Jane M. posted an article on Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal - Nov 24, 2009, 6:13 pm
Just in case you haven't yet decided exactly which crowd-pleasin' dessert you're going to whip up for the big day, here's a really good carrot layer-cake recipe that I can recommend wi...
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Jane M. posted an article on Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal - Nov 18, 2009, 1:14 pm
Carl Sagan, the late American astronomer, uttered my favorite pie quote of all time. He said, "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." That's beautiful ...
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Jane M. posted an article on Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal - Nov 13, 2009, 1:53 pm
Remember that ice-cream making attachment that I bought for my KitchenAid mixer a few months ago? I first talked about it in June, when I made mango ice cream--does that ring a bell? Well, anyway, sin...
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Jane M. posted an article on Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal - Nov 5, 2009, 8:29 pm
They're unimposing little berries, firm and shiny. We find them fresh on market shelves only in the fall, for a couple of months. Kind of easy to forget about them the rest of the year. Oh, they p...
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Jane M. posted an article on Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal - Nov 2, 2009, 7:41 pm
My baking objective this past Saturday was to make a simple, tasty, and relatively wholesome cranberry coffee-cake. I found what looked to be a promising recipe on the King Arthur website (a site whic...
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Jane M. posted an article on Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal - Oct 27, 2009, 4:02 pm
If I received a cupcake for every single time within just this past week that I've either heard, read, or spoken the word "pumpkin," I think I'd have enough inventory to open a bakery. Hallow...
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Jane M. posted an article on Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal - Oct 22, 2009, 3:35 pm
... the rapturous scent of my peanut butter & jelly bars cooling on the counter, he made the split-second ... freshly baked pan of peanut-butter & jelly bars, cooling on a kitchen counter. Residents...
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Jane M. posted an article on Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal - Oct 17, 2009, 2:22 pm
... link). In terms of what I altered: I changed the extract amounts and the salt amount slightly; I used superfine sugar instead of granulated (but feel free to use granulated if you want to); I us...
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Jane M. posted an article on Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal - Oct 13, 2009, 11:30 am
Consider yourself in luck! I'm going to spare you my usual gigantic preamble. Really. I am. There's a first time for everything, right? I just wanted to share this recipe while you're sti...
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Jane M. posted an article on Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal - Oct 8, 2009, 4:28 pm
I made a Sacher-Torte yesterday. I'd never made it before. "Oh, that's nice . . . but what exactly is Sacher-Torte anyway?" Perhaps you're asking that question . . . if so, it's a goo...
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Jane M. posted an article on Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal - Oct 7, 2009, 6:08 pm
Okay, so I know I whined to you about cake decorating mishaps in another post just this past August, but now I think I've pretty well topped myself. The cake-wreck you see here is not the stuff of...
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Jane M. posted an article on Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal - Oct 2, 2009, 7:01 pm
Sometimes it's hard to decide just what to put into a recipe, especially an inherently flexible recipe like a quick-bread. There are so many choices. It can be a wee bit scary--that terrifying c...
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Jane M. posted an article on Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal - Sep 27, 2009, 6:19 pm
It all starts innocently enough, with a dark, shiny acorn squash. It's there, on your kitchen counter. Mystified, you try to remember what you were considering making when you bought it. Well, no ...
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Jane M. posted an article on Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal - Sep 26, 2009, 1:32 pm
Apples, apples, apples--yes, they're most decidedly still on my mind, and so we have today's scone recipe. This is a really good one, that I adapted, from Marion Cunningham's little gem, T...
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Jane M. posted an article on Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal - Sep 20, 2009, 7:48 pm
... a birthday cake is supposed to be. Three layers high, with the classic, simple, American-style buttercream . . . rich, sweet, and completely chocolatey. No extraneous frills allowed. No foil-cov...
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Jane M. posted an article on Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal - Sep 18, 2009, 8:22 pm
Apples have been on my mind lately. More specifically, apples in cakes. And if we're narrowing it down even further, the famous apple cake they sell at IKEA (the gargantuan Swedish furniture and h...
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Jane M. posted an article on Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal - Sep 15, 2009, 2:00 pm
"Oreos?" I'll say it again, in case you missed it . . . "Oreos?" Spoken as a question, that one little word murmured just about anywhere in the U.S. almost always engenders an immediate affirmat...
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Jane M. posted an article on Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal - Sep 13, 2009, 1:53 pm
My husband, Andy, has a few friends over to play poker about once a month, and every September he organizes a small tournament that starts on a Saturday afternoon around 2:30 pm and can go into the we...
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Jane M. posted an article on Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal - Sep 7, 2009, 11:26 am
I bought a pint of fresh blueberries yesterday and the vendor who handed it to me, at the farmer's market, remarked matter of factly, "Last week for blueberries!" Guess there's no denying it n...
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Jane M. posted an article on Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal - Sep 4, 2009, 5:25 pm
Chocolate bread pudding wasn't really on my agenda this week, one might say it just happened. And what a happening it was. Of course, for typical American-style bread pudding you need typical Ame...
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Jane M. posted an article on Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal - Sep 1, 2009, 8:29 pm
It's been unseasonably cool here lately, and people keep saying things like, "Well, I guess summer's over." Personally, I think the days of chillier than average temperatures are simply a late...
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Jane M. posted an article on Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal - Aug 29, 2009, 6:51 pm
You may recall, as I've mentioned it once or twice in the past, that I'm not much of a yeast baker at all. My confidence level with any sort of baked goods requiring yeast has always been slig...
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Jane M. posted an article on Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal - Aug 26, 2009, 8:19 am
It's a quiet, rainy Wednesday morning here in Berkley, Michigan. My 13 year old son's skateboarding camp has been cancelled for the day, so I let him sleep in. He just rolled out of bed, at hi...
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Jane M. posted an article on Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal - Aug 24, 2009, 10:30 am
... I guess everything can't be all bad, can it? Banana cream pie even looks comfortingly retro, don't you think? There's all that soft, fluffy, whipped cream on the top. That's .....
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Jane M. posted an article on Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal - Aug 20, 2009, 11:05 am
Peaches, not unlike other foods, have been known to loom rather large in our vocabulary. To wit: "She's just a peach of a gal" . . . or . . . "What?! The plumber's not coming until tomorrow??...
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Jane M. posted an article on Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal - Aug 16, 2009, 2:03 pm
Last night I found myself in a rare situation. No one around here at home but me--all night long. It's nice to have such a night now and again. You can do just about whatever you want, within reas...
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Jane M. posted an article on Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal - Aug 12, 2009, 8:24 am

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Jane M. posted an article on Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal - Aug 8, 2009, 2:31 pm

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Jane M. posted an article on Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal - Aug 6, 2009, 7:33 pm

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