Tag: baking
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Fondant Fun!!
Birthdays are very celebrated in our family. We have celebrations with my family and celebrations with Patrick’s family. This means that I get to make two cakes for Savannah each year. As these celebrations were drawing near I went through some very tough decisions like what kind of cake to make? How am I going…
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Carrot Cookies with Orange Frosting
“Carrot cookies?” my sweet husband said in that, “okay my wife is nuts” tone. I promise they are good. The sweet flavors from sugar and carrots make a yummy combination. You don’t even realize your eating carrots. Carrot Cookies 1 cup cooked mashed carrots1 cup shortening1 cup sugar1/2 tsp. lemon or orange flavor2 1/2 cups…
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Grandma’s Banana Bread
Grandma almost always had banana bread in her freezer when I was growing up. I thought she just really liked banana bread. Now I know why – no one wants to eat a brown banana. No matter how many bananas I buy, I almost always have a couple that don’t get eaten.
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Marble Cake
As a young mother it was, and still is, tradition to make a special dessert for Sunday dinner one of our favorites was cake, in particular any kind of chocolate cake. One day I decided to try making a marble cake and it soon became my son Robert’s favorite and after over baking it one…