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National Chocolate Cake Day – Two Cakes are Better than One!!

Today January 27 is “National Chocolate Cake Day”. I woke up planning on making my friend Kathy P’s recipe for Texas Sheet Cake and then decided I would make it as well as a 3 layered Dark Chocolate Salted Caramel Cake. The Texas Sheet Cake is a very simple and fast cake to make. Making […]

Homemade Strawberry Lemon Jam

Once you taste your own homemade strawberry jam, you’ll never want store-bought again! With the strawberries coming into season here in Oregon I need to get my water bath canner out and jars washed to make my strawberry lemon jam. The last few years I have been using the recipe for strawberry lemon jam from […]

Lemon Poppy Seed Bread Pudding

Here is my second bread pudding recipe for my 2015 bread pudding mission. This bread pudding is layered with a lemony cream and sprinkles of poppy-seed. If you think this is not enough lemon wait until you pour some warm lemon sauce over the top. A burst of lemon flavor is in every bite! Lemon […]

Gingerbread Cookies Gone Wild!

Gingerbread cookies in my house have “Gone Wild” this year. Living in the foothills of Mt Hood, Oregon I was inspired to make my gingerbread cookies shaped from nature. On a family trip to Yellowstone my husband surprised me with these animal shaped cookie cutters of a deer, salmon, bear, duck and tree. This gingerbread […]

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