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Bluebird Cupcakes!

April 12, 2010

We moved to our present property in 2000 and although our new home was only a twenty minute drive from our previous property, the geography is totally different. We now lived adjacent to about 500 acres of county forest preserve and natural springs bubbled up out of the ground in the most curious places! Being [...]

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Caramel Pecan Cupcakes

March 8, 2010

Guess what! I finally found some photography classes and I couldn’t be happier! I signed up for 6-2 hour classes which are held on Saturdays from 10:00-12:00 pm, beginning March 13th. I am so excited! The classes are Digital Photography I and II, Introduction to DSLR Photography, Studio Lighting, Exterior/Interior Lighting and Filter Factor. I [...]

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Chocolate Caramel Cupcakes and the WINNERS!

February 25, 2010

We have our two winners of Marty Embry’s Coney Sauce Spice Mix! And the first name drawn out of the hat is… Jewel of The Tiny Jewel Box And the second name is… Bonnie of City Home/County Home Please send me your full name and home address so Marty and I can get your Jar [...]

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Pomegranate Cupcakes

December 28, 2009

OH MY…this has been a rough Christmas as far as weather! It snowed earlier in the week and we had about 6″ of the squishy white stuff on the ground. But on Christmas Day it started raining, sleeting and then into freezing rain for about 24 hours. It was miserable but the rain did melt [...]

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Cream Cheese Cookies — My Favorite Cookie!

December 21, 2009

When I was growing up every Christmas my Mom made Cream Cheese Cookies. She used her old-fashioned Cookie Press and made hundreds of little Christmas Trees, Camels and Wreaths. I remember the cookie sheets covered with green and red cookies laying on every flat surface of our kitchen and dining room. And I remember my [...]

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Welcome to the 1st HBinFive Bread Braid

November 15, 2009

For our first recipe for HBinFive we made Pumpkin Pie Brioche and we had the option of doing whatever we wanted with the dough. So as usual I went a little overboard to say the least. I mixed the recipe exactly as written except I did use fresh yeast. The directions said “Cover (not airtight), [...]

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Black-bottom Cupcakes

November 9, 2009

Black-bottom Cupcakes have been on my ToDo List forever it seems. And I was happy to check it off especially after I tasted them! WOW..what a deep, luscious chocolate flavor similar to a fudgy chocolate brownie and not like a cupcake at all. My filling sort of sunk into the cupcake! If I make these [...]

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Pumpkin Cupcakes with Maple Cream Frosting

October 26, 2009

FINALLY! Due to the pumpkin shortage I’ve not been able to bake anything pumpkin yet this year. I was near panic all week but on Saturday one of my local markets finally came through. Their canned pumpkin display consisted of a huge mound of box after box of pumpkin about 100 cases deep and stacked [...]