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A collection of the latest recipes I have found.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Frosting Cake

Chocolate Peanut Butter Frosting Cake

The chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting is our new favorite birthday cake. It is a simple two layer chocolate cake from Hershey recipe with really de...

Steel cut oats

Steel cut oats

There are some overnight steel cut oat recipes but seems like slow cookers on low should be 4-6 hours so overnight is too long. This recipe allow you to put...

Cinnamon buns

Cinnamon buns

Really like this cinnamon buns recipe from the Americas Test Kitchen Bread Illustrated cookbook. We made these on Christmas morning and have made them since...

Nutmeg cake

Nutmeg cake

I really like the latest Joanne Chang cookbook Pastry Love. I have all of the other Flour and Joanne Chang cookbooks. The pictures are really great and there...

Popovers

Popovers

For my birthday I got a nice popover pan. The pan is much deeper than a muffin pan a seems thicker and more sturdy. Popovers are fairly simple just consist...

Kimba fish toy

Kimba fish toy

Kimba really likes her new fish toy. She tosses it around and freaks out chasing it. Sometimes she will deliver it to us in her mouth with a lot of pride. ...

Sourdough pretzels

Sourdough pretzels

Sourdough pretzels are my favorite way to use my sourdough. I make pretzels every few weeks. The dough is similar to a pizza dough mostly flour, water, yeast...

Naan bread

Naan bread

Naan bread is an Indian flat bread. It can be made in a tandori oven but can just be made in a skillet if you don’t have a tandori oven. The dough is simil...

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chocolate Chip Cookies

One of my favorite cooking youtube channels is Whats Eating Dan? from Americas Test Kitchen. I like his episode on chocolate chip cookies. I learned the ch...