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Jalapeño Popper Hasselback Sweet Potatoes: Review of The Camp and Cabin Cookbook

July 13, 2018 By Laura 3 Comments

Jalapeño Popper Hasselback Sweet Potatoes are smoky, savory delicious treats, whether served as an entree or side side, and whether served in the cool of your kitchen or outside around a campfire. A copy of The Camp and Cabin Cookbook was given to me for the purposes of an honest review. Affiliate links have been… 

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Butternut Chai Bundt Cake with Cream Cheese Swirl

November 7, 2017 By Laura Leave a Comment

Butternut Chai Bundt Cake with Cream Cheese Swirl

Butternut Chai Bundt Cake with Cream Cheese Swirl is the perfect treat for fall, softly spiced with chai tea and tangy from the cream cheese. Adagio Tea sent me some teas to play with, and this is one of the resulting recipes; Amazon affiliate links have been used to link to items I am discussing…. 

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Mexican Ramen Bowl

March 18, 2016 By Laura 12 Comments

Mexican Ramen Bowl

Mexican Ramen Bowl is fusion food done perfectly, as a warming Mexican soup spiked with homemade Salsa Negra is made slurp-able and comforting with curly ramen noodles. My family adored this dish and so will yours! In case you guys haven’t figured it out by now, I adore fusion ramen bowls. I have yet to… 

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Filed Under: beans, chicken, corn, cream cheese, easily made vegetarian, Mexican dishes, Ramen, soup, tomatoes Tagged With: beans, chicken, corn, cream cheese, fusion, mexican, ramen, salsa negra, soup, tomatoes

Cold Oven Cream Cheese Pound Cake Redux

September 30, 2015 By Laura 10 Comments

Cold Oven Cream Cheese Pound Cake--save some time not worrying about preheating your oven and create the most velvety, delicious pound cake!

This Cold Oven Cream Cheese Pound Cake is velvety rich with an elusive sweetness from Fiori di Sicilia that makes it one of the best pound cakes I have ever made! You might notice there is a castle in the background. And you might be surprised I did not feature it. But holy moly, as… 

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Caramel Swirled Cheesecake Bars: #CreativeCookieExchange

September 22, 2015 By Laura 13 Comments

Caramel Swirled Cheesecake Bars--unbelievable easy and so delicious! Completely from scratch!

Caramel Swirled Cheesecake Bars are deceptively simple and absolutely delicious. And they are easy to make from scratch with a homemade caramel sauce. Creative Cookie Exchange this month is all about layered bars, so keep reading to check out all the fabulous layers! Affiliate links have been used in this post to link to items… 

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Lemon Glazed White Chocolate Cream Cheese Pound Cake Mini Bundts: #BundtBakers

February 19, 2015 By Laura 25 Comments

Lemon Glazed White Chocolate Cream Cheese Pound Cake Mini Bundts with Blueberries

This versatile Lemon Glazed White Chocolate Cream Cheese Pound Cake can be used to make big bundt cakes, miniature bundt cakes (as shown) and shortcake baskets (see below). It is delicious with berries and worthy of being served at a dinner party. Keep reading to check out all of the other chocolate bundts from Bundt Bakers this… 

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Blueberry Cream Cheese Muffins

May 1, 2014 By Laura 15 Comments

dog photo bombing blueberry muffin photo

Blueberry Cream Cheese Muffins are simple, delicious and unrepentantly cake-like muffins that burst with blueberry flavor. Affiliate links have been used to link to items I am discussing. Some recipes are simple genius, and this is one of them. My girls and I scarfed these down–and every single time I have looked at the photos… 

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Cacao Nib-Cream Cheese Swirled Triple Chocolate Bundt Cake: #BundtBakers

February 20, 2014 By Laura 15 Comments

Cacao Nib-Cream Cheese Swirled Triple Chocolate Bundt Cake

Because sometimes, double chocolate just isn’t enough. Ha! Actually, this was entirely supposed to be double chocolate, white chocolate chunks in the swirl and cocoa in the cake. But then we had a mishap. And like all cake mishaps in my kitchen, we do not discuss them (watching Mommy fuss and fume and stomp is… 

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#BundtaMonth: M&M Cream Cheese Pound Cake

October 4, 2013 By Laura 20 Comments

M&M Cream Cheese Bundt Cake

As soon as the theme for October was announced in my Bundt A Month group, I knew I would be baking my bundt cake for the elementary school carnival cake walk. Why? Because the theme is candy, and who likes candy more than kids?  Plus, I had a sneaking suspicion I would use M&Ms, since… 

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Hi! I’m Laura and I am a recovering history major who has re-channeled all of my passion for learning about the history of different countries to learning about their food culture. That doesn’t mean every dish on here is strictly authentic, but it does mean that even my adaptations are not undertaken lightly. My goal is to show you–by doing–that these dishes are possible in your kitchen. Including desserts because I have quite the sweet tooth! Read More…

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