tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86230121808581813922024-03-13T07:10:33.111-04:00Mission: PinpossibleNicole Franz is a copy editor and paginator at The News-Herald in Willoughby. She takes all those sweet recipes, grueling workouts, cleaning tips, money-saving tricks, do-it-yourself projects and looks that seem so cool on Pinterest and writes about how they really turn out.Nicole Franzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12975867997106385459noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623012180858181392.post-13598531607808555552013-05-12T09:00:00.000-04:002013-05-13T20:56:15.327-04:00Pumpkin cheesecake made easy, delicious<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So cheesecake is awesome. There’s really nothing better
than cheesecake. Unless you count pumpkin cheesecake that is, which I certainly
would consider better than regular cheesecake thanks to this pin for <a href="http://bit.ly/139fKTb">Easy PumpkinCheesecake from Mr.Food</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">First off I needed to make the Graham cracker crust,
which I <a href="http://bit.ly/10Bf3gf">blogged about here</a>.
But then I was able to get into this incredibly easy recipe for the pumpkin cheesecake.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It really is almost as easy as it looks.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1 egg yolk plus 2 whole eggs </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 packages (8 ounces each) cream cheese, softened</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Beat egg yolk and brush
onto pie crust. Bake crust for 5 minutes; set aside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In a large bowl, combine 2 eggs, cream cheese, and sugar,
and beat with an electric beater on medium speed until smooth. Add pumpkin,
cinnamon, and ginger and continue beating until well blended.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Spoon mixture into prepared pie crust and bake for 40 to
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Let cool, then refrigerate for several hours or
overnight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I only have a 9-inch pie pan. So right off the bat, we’re
working off a smaller pie crust. I prepped the graham cracker crust that I also
found on Mr. Food. I also don’t have a pastry brush, so I basically used my
hand to spread the egg yolk around onto the pie crust. It wasn’t elegant, but
it did work. So I baked my crust for five minutes and set it aside.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Looks pretty lovely now. Just waiting for me to finish the batter and dump it in.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I used Neufchatel instead of regular full-fat cream
cheese to make this recipe a touch healthier. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All the batter ingredients ready to mix.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I combined all the other ingredients in my trusty green
mixing bowl and grabbed my trusty hand mixer. I blended it until it got this
lovely orange sherbet color and an even consistency. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It was all I could do not to pour this directly into my mouth.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I poured as most of the mixture into the prepped pie
crust as possible, I probably had about a half-cup of the mixture leftover. (If
you do use a 10-inch pan as I did when I repeated this recipe at my parents’
house for a birthday get-together the whole mixture should fit in your prepared
pie crust.)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This one even turned out pretty.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I baked mine for 40 minutes to start then used a
toothpick to make sure the cheesecake was set. Then threw some aluminum foil
over it and put it in the fridge someplace my roommate wouldn’t find it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Despite all the waiting (refrigerating), this ended up
being truly easy and absolutely delicious. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Golden orange deliciousness.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I could not wait to try this. In fact, I might have eaten
the uncooked mixture that didn’t fit into my pie crust by the spoonful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So when I finally sliced myself a piece (and doled one
out for my roomie), I barely took the time to snap a photo before devouring my
slice of pumpkin-flavored cheesecake heaven. The dessert has that cheesecake
texture and consistency without as much denseness as a traditional cheesecake,
and it definitely channels that delightful, autumnal pumpkin flavor. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And the crust turned out perfectly. Not too crumbly, not too dry, but absolutely tasty.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The crust held together fantastically.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It was a big hit with my roommate and went over
splendidly at a family birthday celebration when I made it in a full-on 10-inch
pie pan. I definitely will repeat this one (and I know that my roomie will
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I've also blogged about making <a href="http://bit.ly/VtEk9Z">healthier cakes with packed pumpkin</a>, <a href="http://bit.ly/ZWaQ80">soft pumpkin cookies</a> that are hard not to scarf down and a <a href="http://bit.ly/Y7pWZm">pumpkin French toast bake</a> that will brighten any morning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">— Nicole Franz | <a href="mailto:NiFranz@News-Herald.com">NiFranz@News-Herald.com</a> | <a href="http://twitter.com/franzorfoe">@FranzOrFoe</a></span><br />
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</span>Nicole Franzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12975867997106385459noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623012180858181392.post-33333721399342377252013-05-06T10:16:00.000-04:002013-05-13T20:43:51.700-04:00Homemade graham cracker crust is easy as pie<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I really wanted to do something fun and special as a
treat for my roommate and me, and we’re both big fans of pumpkin-flavored
desserts and cheesecake. So when I saw a <a href="http://bit.ly/139fKTb">pin for Easy Pumpkin Cheesecake</a>, I was all about that.
But before I could get to the pumpkin cheesecake I needed to make the graham
cracker crust, which I <a href="http://bit.ly/139foMf">pinned here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Both pins are from Mr. Food and were easy to follow. But
for now, we’ll stick to the crust.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Here's how the crust turned out before I poured the pumpkin cheesecake mixture into it<span style="font-size: x-small;">.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1 1/3 cups graham cracker crumbs</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1/4 cup granulated sugar</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1/2 cup butter, melted<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In a medium bowl, combine graham cracker crumbs, sugar,
and cinnamon; add butter then mix well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Press mixture firmly into bottom and up sides of a 9-inch pie plate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chill in refrigerator at least 1 hour before filling.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The dry ingredients (plus a pinch of pumpkin pie spice, because I'm using this for pumpkin cheesecake)</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The most difficult thing about this was turning graham
crackers into graham cracker crumbs. I tried just smashing them in a mixing
bowl by hand (nominally successful) and using a potato masher (moderately
successful, but left a lot of larger crumbs). I tried putting a few in baggy
and crushing them by hand to get the fine crumbs I needed. That seemed to work
best once the graham crackers were already broken up somewhat. Mostly I just
kept getting frustrated, because I couldn’t seem to find a truly efficient way
to do this seemingly easy task. But eventually I managed to get 1 1/3 cups of
crumbs in my mixing bowl.</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_INZDaxew0c/UYdG-ouw88I/AAAAAAAAAbY/j79abXHNeko/s1600/mixing1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_INZDaxew0c/UYdG-ouw88I/AAAAAAAAAbY/j79abXHNeko/s1600/mixing1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A fairly blurry photo (sorry!) of all the ingredients including the scalding hot butter</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Adding in the sugar and cinnamon (and a pinch of pumpkin
pie spice, because I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">was</i> making
pumpkin cheesecake after all) was easy. I wish I’d melted the butter on the
stove, because I ended up using my microwave and had that awful exploding
butter problem that seems impossible to avoid in your average microwave. But I
microwaved it and managed to coat my microwave in a fine buttery coat while
managing to narrowly avoid scalding myself on hot butter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Once all my ingredients were in the mixing bowl I mixed
well, for well, a while. It was one of those recipes where you really work at
mixing it’s good exercise though right (I keep telling myself this so I feel
less guilty about devouring the delicious food I’m making). I kept mixing until
I got this doughy mixture to a fairly even consistency.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mixing by hand should get you something that looks like this and a workout</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Then I dumped the mix into my pie pan and started
pressing. This was the second most difficult part of this recipe, because it’s
kind of difficult to fill in every bit of the pie pan when your hands are
buttery. But once I was done and had thoroughly washed my hands again, I tossed
my crust in the fridge.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Impressive, eh? Emphasis on the pressing that you'll have to do to get to this part</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://bit.ly/ZXU9wc">Read about how I filled this pie crust with some delicious pumpkin cheesecake!</a><i><br /></i></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Th<span style="font-size: x-small;">e finished cheesecake looks <span style="font-size: x-small;">s</span></span>o delicious</span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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</span>Nicole Franzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12975867997106385459noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623012180858181392.post-16952690660189059822013-04-25T09:36:00.000-04:002013-04-25T09:36:00.097-04:00Baked hard-boiled eggs make use of muffin tins, oven<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Something about hard-boiled eggs makes me think about
spring. Probably that whole connection to Easter. I love hard-boiled eggs, it’s
a perfect protein-packed snack or addition to any meal.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hard-boiled eggs in all there delicious glory</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Before I get started on this post though I have to confess,
I’ve never hard-boiled eggs on my own. I seem to recall helping my mom get the
egg rolling by putting water in a pot and turning on a burner, but that’s about
where I ended my involvement in hard-boiling. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But this pin I found months ago, makes hard-boiling
eggs seem so easy even I could tackle them, and it uses my favorite kitchen
appliance: the oven. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The <a href="http://bit.ly/ZqLEEG">pin</a>
is so simple a caveman could do it (sorry, Geico/cavemen everywhere). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It’s one of those great pins where the image tells you
everything you need to know. It’s just a picture accompanied by nine lines of
all-caps text, which claims to impart “THE BEST WAY TO MAKE ‘HARD-BOILED’ EGGS”
and that “NOT ONLY ARE THEY TASTIER, BUT THEY ALSO ARE MUCH EASIER TO PEEL!”</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My muffin tin looks like it's seen better days doesn't it?</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Instructions</b></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This includes a grand total of four steps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Place the eggs in a muffin tray so they do not move around”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Turn the oven to 325 degrees”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Pop in for about 25-30 minutes”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“and remove”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How it went</b></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I decided to start out with six eggs, which I put into my
muffin tin. I turned the oven to 325 degrees and set a time for 30 minutes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When, I pulled them out of the oven after the half-hour. I
let them sit for about five minutes than pulled two out and put them into a
container with cold water so that they’d cool off enough for my roommate and I
to try them and see if they turned out.</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ct98z278w_8/UXixaj-Lr2I/AAAAAAAAAZk/iJLv1JjVHYM/s1600/peeled+and+burnt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ct98z278w_8/UXixaj-Lr2I/AAAAAAAAAZk/iJLv1JjVHYM/s1600/peeled+and+burnt.jpg" height="480" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">See that burnt spot, not ideal. This was one of the eggs peeled from the 30-minute batch.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As it turns out, 30 minutes in my oven at 325 degrees will
overcook the eggs, making them rubbery and almost impossible to separate from
the shell. It also gave them these sweet burnt spots. </span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CdECCYV4Lxc/UXixbQWfuiI/AAAAAAAAAZs/LfZfdGE1Alk/s1600/peeled+badly.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CdECCYV4Lxc/UXixbQWfuiI/AAAAAAAAAZs/LfZfdGE1Alk/s1600/peeled+badly.jpg" height="480" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Not easy to peel when you overcook them. This one came out with some battle scars.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So I decided to go with batch No. 2. Two eggs in the oven
for 25 minutes at 325 degrees. I even cheated a little and pulled them out 30 seconds
early. These ones did turn out easy to peel as promised. </span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GUveMu5NiIE/UXixeL82wlI/AAAAAAAAAaI/U0RmqAGarFo/s1600/perfect+whole1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GUveMu5NiIE/UXixeL82wlI/AAAAAAAAAaI/U0RmqAGarFo/s1600/perfect+whole1.jpg" height="640" width="496" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Look at this perfectly peeled egg! This is what that pin was talking about!</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I don’t know about them being any tastier than eggs
hard-boiled in water, but it certainly seemed a lot easier to just turn on the
oven and place some eggs in a muffin tin than to bother with boiling water. </span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aYyzHZ7pIkY/UXixcblXZoI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/unQf8Mf5k5I/s1600/perfect+first+bite1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aYyzHZ7pIkY/UXixcblXZoI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/unQf8Mf5k5I/s1600/perfect+first+bite1.jpg" height="618" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Perfectly delicious and easy to peel, this was one of my 20-minute eggs. </span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I've tried this several times since my initial tryout of this trick, and I've found that in my oven the best results come about at 325 degrees and just over 20 minutes, so I'd update the instructions to 20-25 minutes and do some experimenting to hatch the perfect eggs in your oven.</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://bit.ly/16ZxDFw">Avocado egg salad</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I told you I’d be writing about this pumpkin French toast
bake and here it is after more than a month. Better late than never, I always
say. I made this as a birthday treat for my roommate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We work opposite schedules so I knew I wouldn’t be able to
do anything special with him like a birthday dinner or drinks that night, but
everyone deserves a special birthday treat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I saw <a href="http://bit.ly/12nyEru">this pin</a>
back in the fall, but didn’t get to it until winter had really set in, but it
was worth the wait for me. This appetizing pin links you to <a href="http://bit.ly/YOoqdw">foodgawker</a> and then refers you to
this <a href="http://bit.ly/XkmhZh">blog post</a> for
the recipe. The post is on the <a href="http://bit.ly/VYC7aY">Minimalist Baker</a> blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I love the concept for this blog. According to their about
section: “Minimalist Baker is a space for simple, delicious recipes. Every
recipe consists of 10 ingredients or less, requires a single spoon or bowl, or
takes 30 minutes or less to prepare.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The duo behind this lovely little blog is John and Dana
Shultz. You can follow John on Twitter <a href="http://bit.ly/14iXgNv">@johncshultz</a> and Dana <a href="http://bit.ly/Wq8r97">@danarshultz</a>. You can also find <a href="http://bit.ly/XQQ8VG">Dana on Pinterest</a> and they
have a <a href="http://on.fb.me/13zrSyq">Facebook page</a> for the Minimalist Baker. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Their blog has some fantastic art on it (way better than
what you’re getting here, sorry folks, I’m a word person), and they have a
nifty <a href="http://bit.ly/Z90eBi">recipes section</a>
that features some shockingly simple recipes (I’m eyeing the <a href="http://bit.ly/14iYnwP">baked sweet potatochips</a>, which have
just three ingredients and five steps).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But I digress. Dana’s picture-heavy post will make you want
to eat this. So you need to know how to make it first (or con someone else into
making it for you). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3½ – 4½ cups 1-inch bread cubes (depending on type of bread)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">7 large eggs</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 cups milk (any kind)*</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1½ tsp pumpkin pie spice</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">¼ cup pumpkin butter (or ½ cup pumpkin puree)*</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Those stars refer to notes highly recommending using pumpkin
butter and to use whatever milk you want (including skim for lighter, and soy
or almond for non-dairy). The recipe also notes that if you use pumpkin puree
it is important to compensate the flavor by “adding a bit more puree, pumpkin
pie spice, and a little agave nectar, brown sugar or maple syrup to the batter.
Otherwise, it will lack that delicious fall, pumpkin flavor you’re going for.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. Cut any kind of bread into 1-inch cubes – I recommend a
crusty, whole grain variety, but sandwich bread will work, too. Just use enough
slice to fill a lightly greased 9×13 baking dish quite full.</span></div>
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pumpkin butter and pie spice until well combined. Pour over bread and push down
with a spoon or your hands until it’s all soaked and mostly covered. Cover with
saran wrap or lid and refrigerate overnight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. In the morning, preheat oven to 350 degrees, uncover and
top with brown sugar, additional pumpkin pie spice and nuts (optional). Bake
for 35-45 minutes or golden brown and no longer wet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. Serve immediately with maple syrup, honey or agave
nectar. Store leftovers in the refrigerator covered for up to a couple days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">First off, I should point out I did the first two steps in
the middle of the night when I got home from work and was trying to be quiet so
I wouldn’t wake up my roommate. </span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0Dt18JHJSMI/UTwnRmUyzBI/AAAAAAAAAX4/NqSuggDwLbI/s1600/PFT-bread.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0Dt18JHJSMI/UTwnRmUyzBI/AAAAAAAAAX4/NqSuggDwLbI/s1600/PFT-bread.jpg" height="300" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Regular-old store-brand wheat bread worked fine for me. And I got lazy and just ripped it apart.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Step one:</b> I went
with the leftover generic store-brand wheat bread that I had in my kitchen. It
does not qualify as “crusty,” but I had already bought it and it was getting to
the point where I needed to eat the bread before mold started to eat it
instead. I also did not slice the bread into 1-inch cubes. Because the bread
wasn’t “crusty” it seemed a lot easier to just tear about the bread into pieces
roughly equivalent to 1-inch cubes. About eight slices was enough to fill my
Pyrex dish. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Ooey-gooey, pumpkin French toast batter.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Step two:</b> I did
not use pumpkin butter, because I didn’t have any and didn’t come across a
crockpot recipe for pumpkin butter until after I made this (believe me, I will
try this with that pumpkin butter recipe and let you know how that goes and how
this recipe goes with pumpkin butter). Instead of using pumpkin butter I used a
heaping ½ cup of pumpkin puree and added about 2 tablespoons of syrup to the
mix. I don’t have fancy maple syrup, but the light store-brand syrup I did have
seemed to work OK.</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZAOQJPTsJD8/UTwnUXJIWjI/AAAAAAAAAYw/Z3zgYp4yEq4/s1600/PFT-pour.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZAOQJPTsJD8/UTwnUXJIWjI/AAAAAAAAAYw/Z3zgYp4yEq4/s1600/PFT-pour.jpg" height="300" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I attempted to pour with one hand and document it with the other.<br />If you think this is a bit blurry you should see the one I didn't use.</span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I also got a little generous with my pumpkin pie spice, but
look at <a href="http://bit.ly/XNBNLT">this picture</a> from Minimalist Baker. If that’s
only 1 ½ teaspoons of pumpkin pie spice, then I am queen of Sheba. </span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KMeh1Wl3kGw/UTwnUwggTCI/AAAAAAAAAZA/WTyf7sOB3b8/s1600/PFT-poured.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KMeh1Wl3kGw/UTwnUwggTCI/AAAAAAAAAZA/WTyf7sOB3b8/s1600/PFT-poured.jpg" height="640" width="476" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is what it looked like right after I poured the mix. Pay no attention to that sink full of dirty dishes.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The pouring over the bread this is easy. I attempted to
drizzle the mix over the entire thing, but pushing down the bread that wasn’t
covered with a spoon did the job of distributing the mix nicely. So I took
another picture, popped the lid on this sucker and called it a night.</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cB9aEG811Y8/UTwnVFt96UI/AAAAAAAAAZI/SltoWX_cBI0/s1600/PFT-soaked+detail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cB9aEG811Y8/UTwnVFt96UI/AAAAAAAAAZI/SltoWX_cBI0/s1600/PFT-soaked+detail.jpg" height="300" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here's how it looked up close after I evened it out. Sweet and soggy.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here's the full tray right before I popped a lid on it and tossed it in the fridge.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Bonus:</b> I had leftover packed pumpkin, so I used the helpful <a href="http://bit.ly/OpN1UY">ice cube tray</a> trick to save the pumpkin for my next adventure in pumpkin-flavored food. I just scooped out the pumpkin by the spoonful and packed it into an ice cube tray as best I could. One </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">standard sized
cube is 2 Tablespoons, 2 cubes is 1/4 cup, 4 cubes is 1/2 cup, etc. So I've got about a 1 1/2 cup of packed pumpkin for my next recipe. Once frozen I just popped them out into a labeled freezer baggy.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The packed pumpkin is a bit harder to get even than the pesto sauce was</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Step three:</b> Early
in the morning. Like super early for me. Like before 8 a.m. when I went to bed
after 3 a.m. early, I got up to pop on the oven and get this thing going because
I am the best roommate ever (no matter what he says when I accidentally wake
him up at 4 a.m.).</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Morning after a long night of soaking up liquid, this bread looks a little puffy,<br />but I would too if I spent all night soaking up liquor, I mean liquid. </span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Just before popping I jazzed it up with a little brown sugar and pumpkin pie spice</span></span></td></tr>
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I did spring for brown sugar and more pumpkin pie spice. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">I was a bit haphazard with my sprinkling of brown sugar and pumpkin pie spice, <br />but really is that something you're supposed to be precise about?</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I checked on the
French toast bake after 35 minutes and didn’t think it looked quite done yet. I
baked mine for the full 45 minutes.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Done<span style="font-size: xx-small;">, a.k.a. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">s</span></span></span>lice and dice 'em time</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It smelled so delicious, a lot like a less overwhelming pumpkin pie scent</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Step four:</b> I
dished out a hulking piece for my roommate and set out some syrup for him to
use. I went for a much smaller slice, because I was going to go back to sleep
once he left for work. I ate mine with syrup, too. </span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cP0fXMZ7xoM/UTwnT6_uyoI/AAAAAAAAAYk/mnsG-lf8eyE/s1600/PFT-plated.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cP0fXMZ7xoM/UTwnT6_uyoI/AAAAAAAAAYk/mnsG-lf8eyE/s1600/PFT-plated.jpg" height="480" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">My tiny little corner piece, drizzled with syrup</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It definitely needed syrup or a similar substitute (honey,
agave nectar) to sweeten it. But this breakfast delight was ooey-gooey goodness.
The syrup was just the icing on top of the proverbial cake. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The only
disappointing part of this recipe for me was that it wasn’t as pumpkin-y as I
expected. I think that using pumpkin butter would add more of that pumpkin
flavor into the French toast bake, but it was so easy to make that I can’t wait to retry this recipe with this
<a href="http://bit.ly/VVPrxX">crockpot pumpkin butter</a>
recipe. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And my roommate was happy to have a delicious, hot
pumpkin pie-esque breakfast before heading off to work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Love pumpkin? </span></h4>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I've also blogged about making <a href="http://bit.ly/VtEk9Z">healthier cakes with packed pumpkin</a>, <a href="http://bit.ly/ZWaQ80">soft pumpkin cookies</a> that are hard not to scarf down and an easy and delicious <a href="http://bit.ly/ZXU9wc">pumpkin cheesecake</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">— Nicole Franz | <a href="mailto:NiFranz@News-Herald.com">NiFranz@News-Herald.com</a> | <a href="http://twitter.com/franzorfoe">@FranzOrFoe</a></span><br />
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</span>Nicole Franzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12975867997106385459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623012180858181392.post-47226398295250812652013-02-03T13:02:00.000-05:002013-05-13T20:54:56.228-04:00Soft pumpkin cookies that are hard to not scarf down<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I love pumpkins. I love the way they look, and I especially
love how delicious it tastes while still being nutrition-packed and low-fat. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I’ve already shared how easy it is to make <a href="http://bit.ly/VtEk9Z">healthier cakes with packed pumpkin</a>,
but I haven’t really showcased my deep love of pumpkins on here yet. I’m going
to remedy that in the next few posts. (Spoiler alert! Expect crockpot pumpkin
butter, <a href="http://bit.ly/Y7pWZm">pumpkin French toast bake</a>, and an <strike>as-yet undetermined goodie that will
probably involve cream cheese</strike> <a href="http://bit.ly/ZXU9wc">pumpkin cheesecake</a>.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But <a href="http://bit.ly/WHx7FD">this pin</a>
for soft pumpkin cookies is the one that I’m pretty sure made me awfully
popular at my apartment complex in the leasing office and residential services
after I took a batch over to my roommate at work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The pin links to the <a href="http://bit.ly/WjsOSz">Honey and Butter</a> blog, which is written by
<a href="http://bit.ly/WjsUK3">Christi Park</a>. It
appears the blog hasn’t been updated in a while (October 2011), but it’s a very
clean, very navigable site, with plenty of categories and recipes you can look
through. I’m eyeing the <a href="http://bit.ly/SXR255">watermelon lemonade</a>
for when summer rolls around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But back to a more cold-weather recipe in these soft pumpkin
cookies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ingredients</b></span></h4>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kCEgrO5JC70/UQYTUDh-vfI/AAAAAAAAAWo/aTYuiYbayf0/s1600/full+tray.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kCEgrO5JC70/UQYTUDh-vfI/AAAAAAAAAWo/aTYuiYbayf0/s1600/full+tray.jpg" width="239" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They kept their shape better than I expected.</span></span></td></tr>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-shnsfSO60lI/UQYTTDQboBI/AAAAAAAAAWU/uxITtd_Ffmk/s1600/detail+on+tray.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour<br />
1 tablespoons cinnamon<br />
1/2 teaspoon baking powder<br />
1/2 teaspoon baking soda<br />
1/2 teaspoon salt<br />
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger<br />
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg<br />
1/2 cup granulated sugar<br />
1/2 cup dark brown sugar<br />
1/2 cup canola or vegetable oil<br />
1 1/2 cups chilled pumpkin puree (canned pumpkin)<br />
1 egg<br />
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line baking sheets with
parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, cinnamon,
baking powder, baking soda, salt, ginger and nutmeg. Set aside.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-shnsfSO60lI/UQYTTDQboBI/AAAAAAAAAWU/uxITtd_Ffmk/s1600/detail+on+tray.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-shnsfSO60lI/UQYTTDQboBI/AAAAAAAAAWU/uxITtd_Ffmk/s1600/detail+on+tray.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You can tell I used a spoon to dish 'em onto the cookie sheet.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. In a separate bowl, whisk the granulated sugar, the dark
brown sugar, and the oil together. Add the pumpkin puree and whisk to combine
thoroughly. Add the eggs and vanilla and whisk until combined.</span></div>
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and whisk until completely combined.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5. Use a small cookie scoop or a large spoon to drop a
rounded, heaping tablespoon of the dough onto the prepared baking sheets, about
1 inch apart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, making sure that the cookies
are just starting to crack on top and a toothpick inserted into the center of a
cookie comes out clean. The cookies should be firm when touched. Remove from
the oven and let the cookies cool completely on a cooling rack.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How it went</b></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I feel like I should knock on wood, because my last post
(gluten-free four-ingredient peanut-butter cookies) went smooth and now this
one went off without a hitch, too!</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sLheZWekxSY/UQYTS9FbD1I/AAAAAAAAAWQ/JFcMRm_dJmI/s1600/finished.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sLheZWekxSY/UQYTS9FbD1I/AAAAAAAAAWQ/JFcMRm_dJmI/s1600/finished.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These passed the firm-to-touch and toothpick tests.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I used canned pumpkin and didn’t chill it, and my spice
measurements were heaping measurements. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The only problem I encountered was that my whisk sucks.
Seriously look at it. I have to bend it back into a workable shape all the
time. It’s definitely seen better days. </span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H0OWrDu6m2A/UQdvlhFnslI/AAAAAAAAAXM/avTHd9Iz4EM/s1600/sad+whisk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H0OWrDu6m2A/UQdvlhFnslI/AAAAAAAAAXM/avTHd9Iz4EM/s1600/sad+whisk.jpg" width="201" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Maybe I'll buy a new whisk, but I'll <span style="font-size: xx-small;">prob<span style="font-size: xx-small;">ably <br />j</span></span>ust keep complaining about this one.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I had to work at mixing it up a little more because of that.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> This cookie dough is going to end up very similar to cake batter in that it is way runnier than your average cookie dough, but that's part of why these cookies are so amazing </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st">— they have a distinctly moist cake-like texture that makes them delightful.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-x-1MZnYG8y0/UQYTUMm3wxI/AAAAAAAAAWs/y-QKrNJgkTA/s1600/plated.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-x-1MZnYG8y0/UQYTUMm3wxI/AAAAAAAAAWs/y-QKrNJgkTA/s1600/plated.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I'm pretty sure this is an accurate representation of how many of these cookies my roommate ate.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I baked mine about 10 minutes on parchment paper-lined cookie sheets, and they
slid off the parchment paper like it was Teflon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Really, the hardest part of making these cookies was trying
to keep my roommate from eating them all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Love pumpkin? </span></h4>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I've also blogged about making <a href="http://bit.ly/VtEk9Z">healthier cakes with packed pumpkin</a>, a <a href="http://bit.ly/Y7pWZm">pumpkin French toast bake</a> that will brighten any morning, and an easy and delicious <a href="http://bit.ly/ZXU9wc">pumpkin cheesecake</a>.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">— Nicole Franz | <a href="mailto:NiFranz@News-Herald.com">NiFranz@News-Herald.com</a> | <a href="http://twitter.com/franzorfoe">@FranzOrFoe</a></span><br />
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</span>Nicole Franzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12975867997106385459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623012180858181392.post-47786897369327703172013-01-27T22:49:00.003-05:002013-01-27T22:53:21.685-05:00Gluten-free 4-ingredient peanut butter cookies as easy as advertised<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I love it when a plan comes
together. Why yes, yes I am channeling Hannibal Smith of “The A-Team”
(shout-out to my dad, brother Tony and roommate Chuck on that one), but it’s
just nice when something works out perfectly. Particularly a recipe that claims
to contain the blueprint to a perfect no-fuss baking experience.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-N_qMAff5EmE/UQXxOXxradI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/-Y81omJwzsY/s1600/finished+cookies+tray.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-N_qMAff5EmE/UQXxOXxradI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/-Y81omJwzsY/s1600/finished+cookies+tray.jpg" height="300" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Spoiler alert, yummy cookies await!</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Too often those “easy-to-follow,”
“simple” recipes end up being deceptively difficult (cough, <a href="http://bit.ly/UXTcRk">Brownie bites on steroids</a>, cough). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But this <a href="http://bit.ly/10TgoWo">marvelously manageable pin</a> of
four-ingredient peanut butter cookies was just as uncomplicated as advertised.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-APA9z0ISB7g/UQXxO2dvnoI/AAAAAAAAAVg/xcz991sRyfk/s1600/ingredients+in+bowl1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-APA9z0ISB7g/UQXxO2dvnoI/AAAAAAAAAVg/xcz991sRyfk/s1600/ingredients+in+bowl1.jpg" height="320" width="239" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Peanut butter and sugar (2 of the 4 ingredients)</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The pin links to a picture-heavy
<a href="http://to.pbs.org/VqZQTd">blog post</a> on the PBS Parents site called <a href="http://to.pbs.org/112Xo6Y">Kitchen Explorers</a>. It’s a
kitchen-focused blog that has a distinctively family-friendly air, with tons of
kid-approved and kid-focused recipes. </span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F-1F9Fgafck/UQXxMDFl8OI/AAAAAAAAAUs/DYSajN-rIaw/s1600/cookie+dough+pre-egg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F-1F9Fgafck/UQXxMDFl8OI/AAAAAAAAAUs/DYSajN-rIaw/s1600/cookie+dough+pre-egg.jpg" height="320" width="239" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Ready for egg, vanilla (the other 2 ingredients)</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This particular post is by <a href="http://bit.ly/10XtewY">Alice Currah</a> who happens
to also publish SavorySweetLife.com, a popular food blog that has an awesome
array of categories so you can easily navigate the site to find blogs on topics
like “Cake Decorating,” “Coffee Drinks,” “Beans and Legumes,” “Casseroles” and
more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But I digress, back to these
awesomely easy peanut butter cookies.</span></div>
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smooth or crunchy)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I doubled the recipe</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. and line a large baking
sheet with parchment paper.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mJ4FzuzQKYE/UQXxMJHdBeI/AAAAAAAAAUg/WxPurQ8172E/s1600/cookie+dough+ready1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mJ4FzuzQKYE/UQXxMJHdBeI/AAAAAAAAAUg/WxPurQ8172E/s1600/cookie+dough+ready1.jpg" height="320" width="239" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now that is some peanut-buttery cookie dough</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. Using a hand or stand mixer, mix the peanut butter, sugar,
egg and vanilla on low speed until well combined.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jqlvfU2IZJ8/UQXxL8d9QoI/AAAAAAAAAUc/iN9b3yU7-A0/s1600/cookie+balls+on+tray.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jqlvfU2IZJ8/UQXxL8d9QoI/AAAAAAAAAUc/iN9b3yU7-A0/s1600/cookie+balls+on+tray.jpg" height="320" width="239" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Resist the urge to just pop one in your mouth</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. Using a medium cookie scoop, scoop about 1 1/2 tablespoons
of dough 1 1/2-inches apart onto the baking sheet. If you don't have a cookie
scoop, drop the dough with a spoon.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Lz8Tc9ZDiWI/UQXxP4wE7BI/AAAAAAAAAV0/Xv2xM3o3PHQ/s1600/ready+to+bake4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Lz8Tc9ZDiWI/UQXxP4wE7BI/AAAAAAAAAV0/Xv2xM3o3PHQ/s1600/ready+to+bake4.jpg" height="320" width="264" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Criss-cross!</span></span></td></tr>
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pattern on the cookies.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0OL2CrHICDs/UQXxN6sEJOI/AAAAAAAAAVI/JBqdZfxYDoQ/s1600/finished+cookie+lovely.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0OL2CrHICDs/UQXxN6sEJOI/AAAAAAAAAVI/JBqdZfxYDoQ/s1600/finished+cookie+lovely.jpg" height="300" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So good!</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5. Bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes until they are golden
around the edges. Allow the cookies to rest on the counter for 2 minutes before
transferring them to a cooling rack.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4nuaizbeaLQ/UQXxNc10iMI/AAAAAAAAAU0/Mbl3ZCGgM68/s1600/crumbled+cookie1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4nuaizbeaLQ/UQXxNc10iMI/AAAAAAAAAU0/Mbl3ZCGgM68/s1600/crumbled+cookie1.jpg" height="320" width="292" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I'm virtually incapable of not crumbling at least one cookie, <br />but then again, it's a great excuse to eat one right away</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is so straightforward that even I couldn’t manage to
muck it up even though I doubled the recipe. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I hand-mixed the ingredients, starting with the peanut butter (I
used creamy) and sugar and adding the egg and vanilla after I already had a
pretty even consistency.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I don’t have a cookie scoop so I just dropped the dough with
a spoon, then delved in to leave that tell-tale crisscross pattern with a fork.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VyPCOdx1zE4/UQXxNS0vOUI/AAAAAAAAAU4/uoCZWa_np6o/s1600/crumbled+cookie2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VyPCOdx1zE4/UQXxNS0vOUI/AAAAAAAAAU4/uoCZWa_np6o/s1600/crumbled+cookie2.jpg" height="320" width="290" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yes, I have to <span style="font-size: xx-small;">eat this cookie right this second<span style="font-size: xx-small;">.</span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My cookies were perfect after 11 minutes, though a little
crumbly even after the requisite two minutes on the cookie sheet. Just be careful when you’re using a spatula to transfer them to a
cooling rack </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">—</span></span> or in my case a parchment lined tray <span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">—</span> and you’ll be as golden as
these cookies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These cookies were very soft (though I’m sure if you prefer
crunchy cookies baking them a little longer would do the trick) and delicious. They’re
gluten-free and I honestly thought they were easier to make and tastier than
traditional peanut-butter cookies with flour. </span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XqEiG4p5HsQ/UQXxNiKupKI/AAAAAAAAAU8/yBD_pnZ0lr0/s1600/finished+cookie+detail1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XqEiG4p5HsQ/UQXxNiKupKI/AAAAAAAAAU8/yBD_pnZ0lr0/s1600/finished+cookie+detail1.jpg" height="300" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I'm getting hungry just looking at these cookies!</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I can't wait to try them with crunchy peanut butter!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My co-worker <a href="http://bit.ly/UNVsgM">Cheryl Sadler</a> tweeted me <a href="http://bit.ly/11iacWP">this pin</a> back in
December. Here’s how the exchange went down:</span></div>
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@<a href="https://twitter.com/franzorfoe">franzorfoe</a> you should make this for your blog <a href="http://t.co/waubUaWO" title="http://pinterest.com/pin/125326802101952944/">pinterest.com/pin/1253268021…</a><br />
— Cheryl Sadler, MLIS (@nhcheryl) <a data-datetime="2012-12-08T23:55:33+00:00" href="https://twitter.com/nhcheryl/status/277562090401693696">December 8, 2012</a></blockquote>
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@<a href="https://twitter.com/franzorfoe">franzorfoe</a> also, bring it in for me to eat<br />
— Cheryl Sadler, MLIS (@nhcheryl) <a data-datetime="2012-12-08T23:55:44+00:00" href="https://twitter.com/nhcheryl/status/277562135750537216">December 8, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Those do look good! Just repinned it! RT @<a href="https://twitter.com/nhcheryl">nhcheryl</a>: @<a href="https://twitter.com/franzorfoe">franzorfoe</a> you should make this for your blog <a href="http://t.co/OqgcZh6F" title="http://bit.ly/YZdo8F">bit.ly/YZdo8F</a><br />
— Nicole Franz (@FranzOrFoe) <a data-datetime="2012-12-09T00:19:08+00:00" href="https://twitter.com/FranzOrFoe/status/277568025761300480">December 9, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And then when I was working with her the next day we had a conversation
about it. And then we had about a half-dozen other conversations about it until
I found a good reason to make this extravagant dessert that Cheryl had been
badgering me about: an informal Christmas party at The News-Herald. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Perfect, I thought, I’ll scour through papers for coupons and get a
good deal on cookie dough and Reese’s because of the holiday, and then make
this dessert that looks so easy. So very easy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now I don’t want to scare you off, because if you follow my tips you’ll
be fine, but my first attempt at making this was not easy. I learned the hard
way how to make these over-the-top chocolaty treats.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My ingredients (minus the oil and egg)</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Break-apart refrigerated cookie dough (I used the Nestle Toll House
Ultimates Chocolate Chip Lovers)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reese’s (I used the Miniatures) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Brownie batter (I just used the Betty Crocker Dark Chocolate Brownie
mix and followed the instructions to add egg and oil)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Preheat oven to 350; smoosh 1.5 squares of break-apart refrigerated <span class="ilad">cookie</span> dough into the bottom of each well. Place Reese cup
upside down on top of cookie dough (or an Oreo!). Top with prepared box brownie
mix, filling 3/<span class="ilad">4 full</span>. Bake for 18 minutes!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Dark chocolate brownie batter. It took a lot of willpower <br />to just not devour this whole bowl by the spoonful.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How it went: First attempt</b></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Like I mentioned, my first batch did not go as planned. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I started by making the brownie batter, which went flawlessly. If you
can read, follow directions, successfully crack an egg, measure oil, and whisk
then you can make brownie batter as easily as I did. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I don’t have whatever magical pan is featured in the post. It has 12
squares and looks gi-normous if a full-sized Reese’s peanut butter cup fits so
seamlessly in it. I have a regular muffin tin, so that’s what I used. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">That's a lot of chocolate chunks</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I took the cookie dough and broke it apart, redistributing the
chocolate chips and chunks that fell off in an equitable manner. I then took
each individual piece and dumped it in one of the muffin wells that I had
thoroughly doused with non-stick cooking spray. I then smooshed the cookie
dough squares into the circular wells so they’d fit better. I just used my
freshly washed hands, though I suppose you could be more germaphobic than me
(it wouldn’t take much) and use a spoon. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Properly smooshed and ready for Reese's</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Then I placed a Reese’s Miniature on top of each cookie dough bit. I
tried to push one or two of them down into the dough so they wouldn’t stick
out, but with the cold cookie dough it was breaking the room-temperature
Reese’s up. </span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JeI194e4rEM/UO5gHzzwODI/AAAAAAAAASA/X8777LmHW0Q/s1600/First+batch+dough+reeses.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JeI194e4rEM/UO5gHzzwODI/AAAAAAAAASA/X8777LmHW0Q/s400/First+batch+dough+reeses.jpg" height="400" width="342" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">You can see the Reese's I destroyed trying to <br />press it into the cold cookie dough</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I abandoned that attempt and just rolled onward to the brownie batter
part. Now it said to fill three-quarters full, but because I was using regular
old muffin tins, the prepackaged cookie dough bits had already filled the
muffin wells halfway. So I just spooned enough brownie batter to cover the
cookie dough and drizzled it over the Reese’s minis as best I could to leave
space for the brownie batter to expand. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">This is where<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span>I started to feel like I was doing something wrong</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It doesn’t say how high to have your oven. So I’d split the difference
on the instructions on the cookie dough and brownie mix. Brownie mix called for
350 degrees. Cookie dough called for 325 degrees. I went somewhere in the
middle and once my oven was preheated I popped the suckers in and set a timer
for 12 minutes (I always set an early timer to make sure I don’t burn things). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After 12 minutes I pulled them out to check and did the toothpick trick
(sticking a clean toothpick in something you’re baking and if it comes out dry
it’s cooked through): Not finished. Tossed it in for the rest of the instructed
18 minutes, and pulled them out to cool, while I got ready for work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Once I was dressed and ready to go, I headed back to the kitchen to
take the dessert out of the muffin tin and transfer them to a plate to whisk
off to work. Here is where I hit my first major speed bump.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In trying to remove the brownie bite from the muffin tin, I attempted
to use a spoon to loosen the dessert from the pan and transfer it to the table.
I started to scoop up the bite and discovered the cookie dough wasn’t fully
cooked. I had a mushy treat that was not going to fly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I flipped the oven back on and tossed the whole tray back in the oven. I
looked at the clock 4:22 p.m. There was no way I was going to make it into the
office by 4:30 p.m. when this informal Christmas party was supposed to start,
but I’d already started this thing, and damn it I was going to see them
through. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I check on them after seven minutes, and thought, “They’re passable now
— solid enough to not give anyone food poisoning, but man are they ugly.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They look burnt. The dark chocolate brownie parts are very dark. It is
dark chocolate after all. There are spots where chocolate chip cookie peeks out
making it look even less appetizing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“But, hey,” I thought, “they smell delicious, and my co-workers are
journalists. We’ll eat anything as long as it’s free.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So with that ringing endorsement floating in my head, I clumsily and
hastily spoon them out onto my plate and cover the plate in aluminum foil. I’m
rushing so much I didn’t even bother to take a photo of them yet. I’ll snap one
when I get to the office. I toss on my coat, grab my gloves and purse, pick up
the plate and head out of my apartment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">This is where it all goes to
hell.</b> Jostling with my purse on one arm, trying to manage my keys and the
tray of brownie bites in one hand and dash down my hallway to the elevator in
heels, I manage to flip the whole plate of brownie bites. It’s a disaster. Most
land squarely on the carpet. Some land on top of those and two stubborn brownie
bites cling to the awkward space I created between the aluminum foil and the
plate while vainly trying to rescue the plate of goodies. I scoop up the ones
that didn’t hit the floor (maybe four or five), put them on the plate and scoop
up the rest of them and as many of the crumbs as I could manage onto the
aluminum foil. I rushed back to my apartment and put the plate of salvageable
treats on the counter for my roommate to discover when he comes home. Then —
frustrated and defeated — I dump the rest into the trash and dash off to work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How it went: Second batch</b></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now this was a much less stressful experience. I’m not going to go
through the whole set of instructions but I will tell you what I did
differently than give you them as handy-dandy instructions at the end of the
post. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The dough is perfectly soft and mushy, <br />but the chocolate retains its shape still</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I took the cookie dough that I pressed into the muffin tin and baked it
for about five minutes at 325 degrees, just enough so it would soften up, but
not enough that it was starting to turn brown. The chocolate chips/chunks
hadn’t even really started to melt much. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I pulled out the tray and then pushed a Reese’s miniature right-side-up
halfway into each cookie. </span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y5VEdg-rMJ4/UO5gJxNa0-I/AAAAAAAAASs/cNDCJkREVMs/s1600/Second+batch-dough+with+reeses.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y5VEdg-rMJ4/UO5gJxNa0-I/AAAAAAAAASs/cNDCJkREVMs/s400/Second+batch-dough+with+reeses.jpg" height="300" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">This is going swimmingly. </span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Then I poured enough brownie batter over each chocolate chip
cookie/Reese combo to cover the Reese completely, leaving the same amount of
space left over. Then I baked them for about 10 minutes at 350 degrees and
pulled them out to check with the toothpick trick. They needed just a little bit
more time, two minutes or to completely firm up. </span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vucxVr0VeZ0/UO5gIxpmwuI/AAAAAAAAASU/vUTgXvPn6l4/s1600/Second+batch-all+in.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vucxVr0VeZ0/UO5gIxpmwuI/AAAAAAAAASU/vUTgXvPn6l4/s400/Second+batch-all+in.jpg" height="300" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is what I expected the first batch to look like before I baked it, <br />dropped it and destroyed my hopes and dreams for overwhelming <br />chocolaty peanut-butter goodness on that first day.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Then I pulled them out to cool for about 15 minutes. Then I used a
butter knife to loosen the brownie bites from the sides of muffin tin. Then I
used a spoon to scoop them out into a container with a lid, because I learn
from my mistakes. A few of them still broke up, and they still looked
absolutely ridiculous, but I successfully got some of them (the ones my
roommate didn’t devour) to work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Results</b></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While these look awful, they taste amazing. My roommate ate most of the
ones I salvaged from the first batch, but when I got home for work, I tried one.
And, wow, they are insanely rich and very chocolaty. I’m not sure how my roomie
managed to eat multiple brownie bites on steroids in one sitting (I’m pretty
sure he ate three or four from the first batch in one night and at least five
from the second batch over the course of 24 hours).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The ones I managed to bring into work went over very well with The
News-Herald Christmas Eve-eve workers. Cheryl and the rest of the Sunday-night
crew raved about them. One of my co-workers, <a href="http://bit.ly/VQK0wb">Jim Finlayson</a>, even
inspired the name I’m calling these decadent delights by saying, “It’s like a
brownie bite on steroids.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After all the feedback I received, I can’t imagine using full-sized
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, because these are excessive enough with the
Miniatures. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I can, however imagine using homemade cookie dough. In fact, if I repeat
this recipe, I’ll probably make homemade chocolate chip cookie dough and leave
out the chocolate chips. Then I can place a smaller portion of cookie dough in
each muffin well to make these brownie bites on steroids a little smaller,
maybe just brownie bites that hit the gym regularly. </span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AdFCL06WWW8/UO5gGdSQwRI/AAAAAAAAARo/U_Cte7eEMSc/s1600/Finished+batch2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AdFCL06WWW8/UO5gGdSQwRI/AAAAAAAAARo/U_Cte7eEMSc/s400/Finished+batch2.jpg" height="300" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Seriously these look awful and burnt, but I promise they're not. <br />They're delicious.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">New-and-improved brownie bites
on steroids</b></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ingredients </b></span></h4>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NUsrwv89XAY/UO5lMUN4AZI/AAAAAAAAATQ/gXJFMtXcuhw/s1600/Brownie+bites+on+steroids.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NUsrwv89XAY/UO5lMUN4AZI/AAAAAAAAATQ/gXJFMtXcuhw/s640/Brownie+bites+on+steroids.jpg" height="640" width="308" /></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chocolate chip cookie dough (with or without chocolate chips,
prepackaged or homemade)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reese’s miniatures</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Brownie batter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Preheat oven to whatever temperature at which you would usually bake
chocolate chip cookies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Take the cookie dough and place enough to fill about a quarter to a
third of each well in the muffin tin, pressing into sides. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bake the cookie dough for about five minutes or however long it takes
for the dough to warm up and not start turning brown. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Take the tray out, push a Reese’s Miniature halfway into each bit of
cookie dough. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Enjoy awkard-looking treats that taste amazing!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">— Nicole Franz | <a href="mailto:NiFranz@News-Herald.com">NiFranz@News-Herald.com</a> | <a href="http://twitter.com/franzorfoe">@FranzOrFoe</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Follow my <a href="http://pinterest.com/franzorfoe/mission-pinpossible">Mission: Pinpossible board</a> on Pinterest.</span>Nicole Franzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12975867997106385459noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623012180858181392.post-80651423537630070672012-12-10T11:31:00.000-05:002013-01-09T21:47:13.863-05:00Cake bites, cake balls, cake pops or whatever you call 'em are recipe for popular treat, if you have the time<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I discovered the wonder of cake bites (also known as cake
balls or cake pops when they’re plopped on a stick) on Christmas two years ago.
My sister-in-law Karen (still my brother’s girlfriend at the time) had been
bringing them to family gatherings for a while, but I’d refrained from eating
any in an attempt to moderate my dessert intake (a vain attempt when you’ve got
a sweet tooth like I do). </span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9Nup_wWiD70/UMVyu0kFJFI/AAAAAAAAAOk/D0EHDr-r30s/s1600/Cake+bites+finished+on+tray.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9Nup_wWiD70/UMVyu0kFJFI/AAAAAAAAAOk/D0EHDr-r30s/s1600/Cake+bites+finished+on+tray.jpg" height="292" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Dark chocolate-covered German chocolate-coconut pecan cake bites<br />and white chocolate-covered pumpkin spice-cream cheese frosting cake bites</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Long-story short, after all the Christmas parties are over,
Karen realizes she forgot to bring the cake bites to some of the parties she
attended. As a result she brings a bunch of these chocolate-covered confections
over to a little post-Christmas get-together. And I tried one. And then two.
And then somewhere between six and 26 of these delightful sugary confections. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Since I started this blog, I’ve been wanting to do a post
about cake bites, but I never saw any pins for cake bites that linked to an
actual recipe or list of tips (a lot of the cake bite-related posts just link
to pictures, which are absolutely useless for my blogging purposes). So after
months on Pinterest I took matters into my own hands and searched out cake
bites in the search bar. After a few variations, (cake bites, cake pops, cake
balls, cakepop, cakebite, etc.) I happened upon a <a href="http://bit.ly/SKm51A">very helpful pin</a>
that linked me to a <a href="http://bit.ly/SKm8KU">post about cake balls</a> on The Pioneer Woman’s website. I had never heard of The
Pioneer Woman, a.k.a. Ree Drummond, before, but she’s a best-selling author,
award-winning blogger, and she has a TV show that airs at 10:30 a.m. Saturdays on
the Food Network. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The post actually uses tips and techniques from <a href="http://bit.ly/Rki4nw">Bakerella</a>, a blogger who
focuses on her baking and decorating attempts. She has made a ton of gorgeous
cake bites and pops and offers a whole range of helpful suggestions with The
Pioneer Woman in the blog post I used as instructions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Because I was planning on bringing them into work to share
with my co-workers, I opted to make two types of cake bites: Spice cake with
cream cheese frosting covered in white chocolate and German chocolate cake with
coconut pecan frosting covered in dark chocolate. If those are crowd-pleasers
then I don’t know what would be. </span><br />
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* 1 box cake mix of your choice. Red Velvet is always pretty (<a href="http://bakerella.blogspot.com/2007/12/red-velvet-cake-balls.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">here</span></a> is Bakerella’s tutorial on her site), and Devil’s Food is
my favorite.<br />
* 1 container of ready-made icing. Any color will do, but Bakerella loves Cream
Cheese.<br />
* Candy Melts or Chocolate Bark (see notes below)</span><br />
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* Waxed paper </span><br />
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chocolate-covered German chocolate-coconut pecan frosting cake bites a.k.a.
“That thing was crazy” cake bites)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1 can packed pumpkin </span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-koL5wQlpXIU/UMVywFUl_6I/AAAAAAAAAO0/MjoftTQVdZc/s1600/German+chocolate+cake+with+coconut+pecan+frosting.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-koL5wQlpXIU/UMVywFUl_6I/AAAAAAAAAO0/MjoftTQVdZc/s1600/German+chocolate+cake+with+coconut+pecan+frosting.jpg" height="320" width="261" /></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What I used (White
chocolate-covered pumpkin spice-cream cheese frosting cake bites a.k.a. “Don’t
change anything” cake bites)</b></span></div>
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instructions, but there’s a lot of them, and they can <a href="http://bit.ly/SKm8KU">all be found here</a>
so I’ll just tell you how it went and highlight the instructions that didn’t
seem intuitive or got lost in translation. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I didn’t bake the cake to the instructions. I cheated to
make it healthier by using packed pumpkin instead of oil and eggs (<a href="http://bit.ly/VtEk9Z">which I posted about here</a>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So after baking up the Betty Crocker’s Super Moist German
chocolate cake and Duncan Hines Signature spice cake mixes with packed pumpkin
and letting them completely cool overnight. I started up on Day Two of cake
bites.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I took the German chocolate cake and started by scooping it
into my largest mixing bowl and stirring it around with a spoon until it was
all crumbs. I then added the Betty Crocker Rich & Creamy coconut pecan frosting.
Using my best judgment, I ended up using the whole tub, because the thicker
icing with its coconut flakes seemed to need those extra spoonfuls to get the
mix to a uniform consistency. </span></div>
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several dozen by hand (made about 50), putting them on wax paper I’d laid out
on cookie sheets. The German chocolate cake bites had a pretty stiff
consistency while I was rolling them out. I put them in the fridge and let them
sit for about an hour and half. Before I started the melted chocolate phase.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After I washed and dried my large mixing bowl I dumped the
spice cake into it and repeated the process of crumbling up the cake. I added a
little more than four-fifths of the Betty Crocker Rich & Creamy cream
cheese frosting and mixed it up until I got a smooth consistency. While I
rolled these up (somehow managing to make a wide variety of sizes, I blame
distractions) I noticed the consistency was much softer than the German
chocolate/coconut pecan ones. Maybe I used too much icing, but seriously the
instructions for how much icing to use is “a little less than the full tub,
actually.” Not exactly specific. The cake bites held their rounded shape before
going in the fridge, but they seemed much less crumbly than the mixture
pictured in The Pioneer Woman’s post, and they were way more moist than the
German chocolate ones. I left them in the fridge for about two hours.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dark chocolate melted and ready for dipping</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">On to the melting:</b>
I used Hershey’s dark chocolate chips for the German chocolate ones and Nestle
white chocolate chips for the spice cake ones. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fun fact:</b> Giant
Eagle doesn’t carry bark chocolate (like the handy-dandy Kroger store brand
ones that I grew up using featured in the pin) anywhere that I could find in
their Willoughby store. I’m fairly certain this made my experience way more
difficult than necessary. I miss Kroger more than any other regional thing
being up here in Northeast Ohio. The combination of excellent prices, great
store brands and wide variety of inventory is completely unmatched in my grocery
shopping experience. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My first cake bite looked so perfect</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They got messier as I went on</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Back to the cake
bites:</b> I followed the melting instructions for dark chocolate chips on the
back of the bag to great success. It was a lot of melting in the microwave for
small increments at lower power and then stirring until the chocolate was at
the desired consistency. I just used a cereal bowl and started by dropping the
balls one at a time in the mixture. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I didn’t really follow the whole “drizzle chocolate over the
top with a spoon” because it seemed too time-consuming. I attempted Bakerella’s
“tap the spoon on the side of the bowl” trade secret to some success. It seemed
to make my cake bites look better, but really made a total mess of the side of
the bowl. The sides were caked in chocolate and after a while I was just
sloshing around more chocolate kind of defeating the purpose.</span></div>
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bites ready to go back in the fridge to set up. You can leave them out to set
up, but I had another batch to make so it seemed easier to just let the candy
coating solidify in the fridge. I set aside the leftover chocolate coating to
use to spruce them up later. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And here’s where
things got really off-track. </b>I pulled out the pumpkin spice-cream cheese
frosting cake bites and tossed a bag of the white chocolate chips in a cereal
bowl. I swear I followed the melting instructions on the bag to the letter, but
I definitely had some problems here. I managed to overcook the white chocolate
a bit to the point where it started to harden, so I added in water (I remember
reading somewhere that a bit of hot water can help rescue overcooked
chocolate). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Long-story short, I ended up throwing out a whole lot of white
chocolate coating. On my second (and final) attempt at melting the white
chocolate I did much better, but the coating ended up a lot thicker than the
dark chocolate and was much harder to work with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It was a rather frustrating experience, and I failed to take
pictures of it, probably because I was covered in white chocolate and ended up
making a huge mess. Oh well. They ended up looking a lot less pleasant than the
dark chocolate covered ones, but they were still delicious. I put them in the
fridge to solidify the coating.</span></div>
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chocolate-coconut pecan frosting cake bites and got fancy. I had seen a pin
somewhere (but for the life of me can’t track it down) telling me an easy way
to drizzle icing or glaze or whatever over items was to put the mixture into a
plastic baggy and then cut off a tiny piece of the corner. I drizzled white
chocolate over about half the dark chocolate cake bites, then I reheated the
dark chocolate and repeated the process over the rest of them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Pioneer Woman post says Bakerella used a squeeze bottle
(a nifty way of doing it if you have one lying about) and suggests using a
spoon if you don’t have a spare bottle, but the baggy trick worked like a charm
and had no cleanup time.</span></div>
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close to two hours working on these the second day what with the melting,
dipping the cake bites, drizzling, transferring in and out of the refrigerator,
dishes, etc. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But my co-workers couldn’t stop raving about these little
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into the spice cake bite.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And shortly after walking off with one (I think a dark
chocolate one), Entertainment Editor <a href="http://bit.ly/TWTSnh">Mark Meszoros</a> messaged me: “That thing was crazy. Don't let me eat another one on the way out.
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And then I took the leftovers to my family’s Thanksgiving
celebration, where I got similar positive feedback.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Heck when I got back from vacation, a full two weeks after
initially making the cake bites, my co-workers were still talking about the
cake bites. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Find Bakerella on <a href="http://bit.ly/XHQ8f1">Pinterest</a>
and <a href="http://bit.ly/WXpOsk">Twitter</a>.</span></div>
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</span>Nicole Franzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12975867997106385459noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623012180858181392.post-44652701391047873672012-12-04T10:01:00.000-05:002013-05-13T20:53:06.292-04:00Healthier cake with packed pumpkin, any boxed cake mix<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lJrv9DMC9Ks/UL2jX2qUq_I/AAAAAAAAAOM/G6kCiRiHhCc/s1600/Spice+cake+with+packed+pumpkin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lJrv9DMC9Ks/UL2jX2qUq_I/AAAAAAAAAOM/G6kCiRiHhCc/s1600/Spice+cake+with+packed+pumpkin.jpg" width="240" /></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I’ve been dying to make cake bites since I started this
blog. But the first step of making cake bites (a.k.a. cake pops or cake balls)
is to bake a cake. So I started out with a healthier base to this sugary
confection. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I didn’t bake the cake to the instructions. I cheated a
little to make it healthier (or as healthy as anything can be when it involves
a tub of icing and chocolate coating). My mom passed along this tip, which she
may have gotten from my sister-in-law Karen or my sister Liz, that you can take
any boxed cake mix and — instead of adding oil and eggs — you just add a can (15
ounces) of solid packed pumpkin instead. That’s all it takes. Packed pumpkin
and cake mix all mixed up and baked in the oven to the directions on the side
of the cake box. There’s a <a href="http://bit.ly/Ryfj1Q">pin</a>
floating around that highlights the awesomeness of this technique in
muffin-form.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I’ve been using this trick to make healthier (and pumpkin-flavored
treats for more than a year). The cakes are still moist and delicious but much
healthier than if you had added eggs and oil. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In my experience the pumpkin flavoring complements spice
cakes and carrot cakes and enhances white and yellow cake mixes, but in
chocolate cake it’s virtually untraceable. Most people have no clue there’s
pumpkin in it unless you tell them. </span></div>
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coconut pecan frosting and a dark chocolate coating and spice cake bites with
cream cheese frosting and white chocolate coating. So I started off with the
German chocolate cake.</span></div>
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being a bit thicker than the standard eggs- and oil-filled cake batter. Once it
was all mixed up I dumped it into a metal pan and attempted to evenly spread it
around. I didn’t really have to worry about how it looked though (my favorite
kind of baking) because I was just going to crumble it up when I made the cake
bites. </span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Sm4pgt-IeFE/UL2jVor8sRI/AAAAAAAAAN0/j5rtXtqQVLQ/s1600/Spice+cake+baked+with+packed+pumpkin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Sm4pgt-IeFE/UL2jVor8sRI/AAAAAAAAAN0/j5rtXtqQVLQ/s1600/Spice+cake+baked+with+packed+pumpkin.jpg" width="240" /></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Then I mixed up the spice cake and packed pumpkin. This one
didn’t really mix as smoothly as the German chocolate cake. The spice cake has
little lumps in the mix that wouldn’t really mix up no matter how much I
stirred the batter. So I didn’t worry about it, dumped the mix in a glass
baking dish and tried to spread the thick batter as evenly as I could (again,
not worrying about the aesthetics). </span></div>
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pulled it out to let it cool. I covered both the cakes and put them out of
sight so my roommate wouldn’t be tempted to indulge while I headed to work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The next day, I got to work on all the other steps that
resulted in some pretty popular treats, but I will blog about that in another
post. </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Love pumpkin? </span></h4>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I've also blogged about <a href="http://bit.ly/ZWaQ80">soft pumpkin cookies</a> that are hard not to scarf down, a <a href="http://bit.ly/Y7pWZm">pumpkin French toast bake</a> that will brighten any morning, and an easy and delicious <a href="http://bit.ly/ZXU9wc">pumpkin cheesecake</a>.</span><br />
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">— Nicole Franz | <a href="mailto:NiFranz@News-Herald.com">NiFranz@News-Herald.com</a> | <a href="http://twitter.com/franzorfoe">@FranzOrFoe</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Follow my <a href="http://pinterest.com/franzorfoe/mission-pinpossible">Mission: Pinpossible board</a> on Pinterest.
</span>Nicole Franzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12975867997106385459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623012180858181392.post-2911102264881727052012-11-14T13:31:00.000-05:002012-11-14T13:31:00.165-05:00Parmesan Broccoli Mashed Potatoes is two-for-one side dish delight<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Everyone loves a two-for-one deal. Seriously, who can
turn down a good buy one, get one free sale? This <a href="http://bit.ly/X6cmbg">pin</a> for a scrumptious-seeming
Parmesan Broccoli Mashed Potatoes side dish certainly had that same twofer
appeal rolling the starch and veggie side dishes into one, and I was helpless
to resist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The pin links to a <a href="http://bit.ly/UFLXd1">foodgawker post</a> (and in case you’re unfamiliar
with foodgawker, it’s basically food porn with links to recipes), which directs
you to this <a href="http://bit.ly/TDREtu">One Lovely Life</a>
<a href="http://bit.ly/W3KvHd">blog post</a>. The blog is
done by this lovely couple (see what I did there?) named Emily and Michael who
have put together a visually stunning blog that mostly focuses on food, but
sprinkles in bits about their lives and their adorable daughter. Their <a href="http://bit.ly/TYV3VO">recipeindex</a> is extensive
and sorted into 23 helpful categories like “Breakfast & Muffins,” “Pasta
& Rice,” “Main Dishes: Chicken & Turkey,” and “Main Dishes: Meatless.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4-5 medium potatoes, peeled and cut into small pieces
(about 1½”)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2c broccoli florets, uncooked</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4 Tbsp butter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">½c milk</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">½c fresh parmesan, grated</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">salt and pepper to taste (I used about 1 tsp salt, ½ tsp
pepper)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add potato
pieces and broccoli and boil 15-20 minutes, or until potatoes are very soft and
can easily be mashed with a fork. Drain broccoli and potatoes well.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7lZzv7zERC4/UKM4tbPQLiI/AAAAAAAAANU/6yvqMKWL-r4/s1600/ready+to+mash.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7lZzv7zERC4/UKM4tbPQLiI/AAAAAAAAANU/6yvqMKWL-r4/s1600/ready+to+mash.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All ready to mash</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Place drained vegetables in a large bowl with butter,
milk, and parmesan. With a hand mixer, whip mixture until very smooth. Add salt
and pepper to taste (I used about 1 tsp salt and ½ tsp pepper).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Serve warm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How it went</b></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil.” I’m pretty
sure even my dad could handle this part of the recipe without any trouble, and
he doesn’t really do any cooking that doesn’t involve a microwave or grill. No
further comments here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Add potato pieces and broccoli and boil 15-20 minutes,
or until potatoes are very soft and can easily be mashed with a fork.” This
step definitely topped the 20-minute mark for me. I ended up using five
potatoes and two cups frozen broccoli florets, so I’m pretty sure this extended
the cooking time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Drain broccoli and potatoes well.” Well my trusty blue
colander made this one easy work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Place drained vegetables in a large bowl with butter,
milk, and parmesan.” I used margarine instead of butter (I’m on a budget,
here), skim milk, and the shredded parmesan cheese that comes with a green lid
in grocery stores everywhere. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“With a hand mixer, whip mixture until very smooth.” For
this one, I busted out my mom’s trusty hand mixer, which I inherited when I
moved out post-college. It’s got a solid 10 years on me, but it’s still in
excellent shape and could probably mix circles around the hand mixers made
today. Having used this mixer hundreds of times to great success, this is where
I got a bit thrown off. I could not for the life of me get this mixture “very
smooth.” So after minutes and minutes as another recipe burned in my oven (I’ll
blog about that later), I settled on fairly lumpy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Add salt and pepper to taste (I used about 1 tsp salt
and ½ tsp pepper). Serve warm.” I probably flipped the quantities here,
definitely leaning toward more pepper and less salt, because my dining
companion isn’t much for salt (seriously, you’d think a guy who owns two salt
shakers would be more into salt).</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-j2fbWWz1HgE/UKM4sdgdlxI/AAAAAAAAANM/wMXoxwlGxss/s1600/Finished-mashed1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-j2fbWWz1HgE/UKM4sdgdlxI/AAAAAAAAANM/wMXoxwlGxss/s1600/Finished-mashed1.jpg" height="300" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The finished product, lumps and all.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This one was a hit with my friend and I. It’s got this
great creamy texture to it (even with the lumpy bits) that instantly reminds me
of homemade mash potatoes and family dinners and holidays. This flavorful dish
isn’t a super veggie-tasting dish, which would be great for getting picky
eaters to eat veggies. The strongest flavors that come out are parmesan cheese,
then a blend of the broccoli and mashed potatoes. I’m sure the broccoli flavor
would have been more powerful if I’d used fresh broccoli, but this dish
definitely tastes exactly like it sounds it would with a name like Parmesan
Broccoli Mashed Potatoes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I’m a big broccoli lover and a serious fan of potatoes,
so I usually have both on hand (Re: <a href="http://bit.ly/NZLdBH">making Gwyneth Paltrow No Fry Fries</a>). That combined with the
easiness of this recipe and its crowd-pleasing two-for-one appeal should make
this an easy repeat in my kitchen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Honestly, I think this is another recipe that could be
adjusted by switching out the parmesan cheese for cheddar, mozzarella, or some
other cheese of your preference. You could probably leave the cheese out
entirely if you want to cut the dairy factor a bit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Check One Lovely Life out on Twitter at <a href="http://bit.ly/RSUL21">@onelovelylife</a> and don’t forgot to check
out Emily and Michael’s blog at <a href="http://www.onelovelylife.com/">www.onelovelylife.com</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And I'm sorry they are not more pictures, I was juggling/burning another recipe and trying to finish up a batch of cookies, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">— Nicole Franz | <a href="mailto:NiFranz@News-Herald.com">NiFranz@News-Herald.com</a> | <a href="http://twitter.com/franzorfoe">@FranzOrFoe</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Follow my <a href="http://pinterest.com/franzorfoe/mission-pinpossible">Mission: Pinpossible board</a> on Pinterest.
</span>Nicole Franzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12975867997106385459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623012180858181392.post-67773806585359898252012-10-29T13:01:00.000-04:002012-10-29T13:01:00.514-04:00Heavy-handed seasoning mars great recipe for buffalo chicken cups<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Lr9aGp75k-g/UITv4Xqya6I/AAAAAAAAAKo/wkhF-BtnzG0/s1600/Plated+single.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Lr9aGp75k-g/UITv4Xqya6I/AAAAAAAAAKo/wkhF-BtnzG0/s1600/Plated+single.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Definitely a mess-free appetizer — easy to eat in two bites (or one big one)</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I blogged last week about these yummy <a href="http://bit.ly/WEoQFF">mini wonton tacos</a>
and had some leftover wonton wrappers from that recipe. I actually forgot I had
them in my fridge for about two weeks. I thought I had the wonton wrappers sealed
in an airtight bag, but it turns out I had left the package partially open. One
corner of the wontons was exposed to the air and hardened as a result. I
figured I could rescue the wontons by cutting off the hardened bits and still
use them for <a href="http://bit.ly/T6jWda">this pin</a>
I saw on Pinterest for buffalo chicken cups. Turns out I was right. </span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-s73eE4YThFU/UITv6Lr_DoI/AAAAAAAAALA/Ual1GwtA1tM/s1600/Wonton-cuts.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-s73eE4YThFU/UITv6Lr_DoI/AAAAAAAAALA/Ual1GwtA1tM/s1600/Wonton-cuts.jpg" width="233" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rescued wonton wrappers sans crusty corner</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The pin links to a <a href="http://bit.ly/PLwSdR">blog post</a> by a very <a href="http://bit.ly/QB8Hf6">happy-looking woman</a> who shares this
yummy recipe.</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Uiuh4C9gWOg/UITf6f2LSbI/AAAAAAAAAJs/I2cJJ3EXgxs/s1600/first+step.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Uiuh4C9gWOg/UITf6f2LSbI/AAAAAAAAAJs/I2cJJ3EXgxs/s1600/first+step.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Uncooked wonton wrappers</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Wui0F3Jg2vc/UITv32WkrXI/AAAAAAAAAKg/0tHR9Neyc0Y/s1600/Marinated+chicken-uncooked.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Wui0F3Jg2vc/UITv32WkrXI/AAAAAAAAAKg/0tHR9Neyc0Y/s1600/Marinated+chicken-uncooked.jpg" width="238" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">That might be too much seasoning</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2-3 boneless, skinless chicken breasts </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 Tbsp. olive oil </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1/2 tsp. smoked paprika </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1/2 tsp. chili powder </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">24 wonton wrappers </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1 Tbsp. butter, melted </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1/2 cup cayenne hot sauce (I recommend Frank's "Red
Hot") </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1/2 cup blue cheese crumbles </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3 scallions, sliced thinly </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Preheat oven to 350F degreess. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Brush chicken breasts with olive oil, and then sprinkle
evenly with the smoked paprika and chili powder. Place in a baking dish and
cook for 20-30 minutes, or until the center is no longer pink and the juices
run clear. Remove chicken and let cool, then shred. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nice and cooked, ready to shred</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Meanwhile, fit a wonton wrapper into each of 24 mini
baking cups, pressing the wrappers carefully but firmly into sides of cups. (Be
careful to keep the corners of each wonton wrapper open; otherwise you will not
be able to fill them!) Bake for 5 minutes or until very lightly browned. Keep
wontons in baking cups. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In a medium-sized bowl, stir together the melted butter
and hot sauce. Add the chicken and stir until well coated. Then fill each
wonton cup with a tablespoon or two of chicken, and then top with a pinch of
blue cheese. Return wonton cups to oven and cook for another 5-10 minutes, or
until cheese is soft and melty. Remove and top with sliced scallions, and serve
warm. These are best served immediately. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Shredded chicken mixed with the melted margarine and hot sauce</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How it went</b></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Preheat oven to 350F degrees.” My oven runs hot, so I
went with 325 degrees. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Brush chicken breasts with olive oil, and then sprinkle
evenly with the smoked paprika and chili powder.” I actually don’t own a pastry
brush (or really any type of brush, except my hairbrushes). So I washed my
hands really good and dropped a spoonful of oil over each chicken breast and
used my hands to coat the chicken as evenly as possible. I mixed the paprika and
chili powder together beforehand in a ramekin then sprinkled them over both
sides of the chicken breasts as evenly as possible. I ended up adding more
paprika and chili powder than the recipe called for because I thought the
chicken didn’t look thoroughly coated. (Spoiler alert: My heavy hand here was
not called for.)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lightly baked wonton wrappers</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Place in a baking dish and cook for 20-30 minutes, or
until the center is no longer pink and the juices run clear. Remove chicken and
let cool, then shred.” This part is simple, particularly if you’re a frequent
baker of chicken breasts like myself. I pulled the chicken breasts out onto a cutting
board where I used a knife to shred the chicken.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Meanwhile, fit a wonton wrapper into each of 24 mini
baking cups, pressing the wrappers carefully but firmly into sides of cups. (Be
careful to keep the corners of each wonton wrapper open; otherwise you will not
be able to fill them!) Bake for 5 minutes or until very lightly browned. Keep
wontons in baking cups.” This probably would have been easier for me if my
wonton wrappers weren’t missing a corner. It actually turned out easier than I would
have thought though. I followed the instructions to the letter, and this step
turned out perfectly as possible given the damaged wrappers with which I
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“In a medium-sized bowl, stir together the melted butter
and hot sauce. Add the chicken and stir until well coated.” I used melted
margarine and <a href="http://bit.ly/PLyxjI">Frank’s RedHot</a> sauce.
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Then fill each wonton cup with a tablespoon or two of
chicken, and then top with a pinch of blue cheese.” I doled out a spoonful of
chicken into each wonton wrapper and topped with bits of pepper jack cheese,
because, frankly, blue cheese kind of grosses me out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Return wonton cups to oven and cook for another 5-10
minutes, or until cheese is soft and melty.” I baked mine for about 6 minutes
and pulled out cups with ooey-gooey cheese. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Remove and top with sliced scallions, and serve warm.
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As I may have mentioned earlier, I kind of over-seasoned these.
I really enjoyed them, they were crunchy and very spicy — something I love. The
friend I shared them with described the buffalo chicken cups as sinus-clearing
and over-seasoned. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Ooey-goo<span style="font-size: xx-small;">ey</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">At every chance I got I opted to add heat and spice. I
used extra paprika, chili powder and hot sauce and subbed out blue cheese for
pepper jack cheese. Had I followed the directions to the letter, I think they
might have been more crowd-friendly. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Sprinkled with scallions</span></span></td></tr>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_JOYigsRqwk/UITf8ASeuqI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/EKjDDKmO1mA/s1600/progression.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I will definitely be adding this one to my keeper list
(and sticking closer to the recipe next time). I’ll probably repeat this easy-to-make
appetizer with mozzarella cheese on my second attempt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I’ve seen a lot of nifty easy-to-eat appetizers, but
those using wonton wrappers as a base seem so easy to eat and make. I’ve been
dying to try them for ages, but haven’t been able to find wonton wrappers in my
local grocery stores. I had been all over the Giant Eagle closest to my home and
several other grocery stores (Heinen’s, Marc’s, etc.) looking for the wrappers
to no avail. One of my co-workers (I believe it was <a href="http://bit.ly/T6iqrN">Theresa Audia</a>)
happened to mention seeing them in the Giant Eagle by the Great Lakes Mall. I
made a trip and sure enough found exactly what I needed in the refrigerated
section on the wall by the produce.</span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Uiuh4C9gWOg/UITf6f2LSbI/AAAAAAAAAJs/I2cJJ3EXgxs/s1600/first+step.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Uiuh4C9gWOg/UITf6f2LSbI/AAAAAAAAAJs/I2cJJ3EXgxs/s1600/first+step.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Having procured the wonton wrappers I went through and
found one of the appetizer recipes I wanted to try: <a href="http://bit.ly/RVJKNO">Mini tacos</a>. The pin has all
the instructions and links to a <a href="http://bit.ly/VtgqBn">Flickr page</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Mini tacos: Won ton wrappers in
muffin tins filled with taco seasoned ground meat, cheese & bake for 8
minutes at 350. Top with favorite taco toppings! Perfect for entertaining!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These instructions are
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I browned some ground turkey and
added a packet of taco seasoning while my oven preheated (325 degrees for my
oven — it runs hot).</span></div>
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before arranging the wonton wrappers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I added the seasoned taco meat
and sprinkled some shredded cheddar cheese on it. I filled my wonton wrappers
pretty full, but you may want to fill yours less if you’re planning on adding
more toppings later. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I baked mine for about seven
minutes, pulling them out when the edges started to brown. Once they were
finished baking they were easily removed from the muffin tin using a spoon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I topped half of mine with green
onions and served them up for a small group of friends. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They were a total hit with the
group, earning rave reviews and clean plates. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This recipe is endlessly
customizable. Serve with sour cream, salsa, tomatoes, onions, guacamole,
whatever you want. Use different meat or cheese. This would be very easy to
prep for ahead of time as well (brown the meat and season it beforehand). This
is definitely making it onto my keeper board. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">— Nicole Franz | <a href="mailto:NiFranz@News-Herald.com">NiFranz@News-Herald.com</a> | <a href="http://twitter.com/franzorfoe">@FranzOrFoe</a></span><br />
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</span>Nicole Franzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12975867997106385459noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623012180858181392.post-82706857987434283952012-10-01T10:31:00.000-04:002012-10-01T17:32:06.465-04:00Gwyneth Paltrow recipe offer guilt-free French fries crazy easy to make<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All sliced up and ready to go.</span></td></tr>
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So I haven’t gone grocery shopping in a while, and was
trying to come up with a Sunday afternoon pre-work meal that would fill me up
for a night of editing and page design without making me feel guilty. I
rummaged through my pantry and fridge and didn’t find too much that was
striking my fancy. I did have potatoes though and remembered pinning something
about a healthier french fries recipe recently. </div>
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So while I nuked some frozen vegetables in the microwave
(I’m a big fan of frozen veggies as a snack/meal with some combination of
cheese, spices or salsa) I found <a href="http://bit.ly/QR1HJM">this pin touting Gwyneth Paltrow’s No-FryFries</a> from her cookbook, “My Father’s Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes
Celebrating Family & Togetherness.”</div>
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If you click on the pin it links you to <a href="http://on.self.com/SwNgtk">Self and a full recipe</a>, but again I went with what was on the actual pin.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-V_NIr2AHuEM/UGksTdq4W4I/AAAAAAAAAIs/Uo0mDMUC6Yo/s1600/in+water1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-V_NIr2AHuEM/UGksTdq4W4I/AAAAAAAAAIs/Uo0mDMUC6Yo/s320/in+water1.jpg" width="239" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What was the point of dunking them in water?</span></td></tr>
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"Gwyneth Paltrow's No-Fry Fries, just cut up your potatoes
and place them in a bowl of cold water, then dry them off and toss them with
olive oil, place them on a cookie sheet and sprinkle with sea salt, then bake
at 450 for about 25 minutes, turning occasionally."</div>
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I grabbed two Idaho potatoes and scrubbed them down,
which is much harder to do effectively without a scrub brush, but I digress. I
turned on my oven before I tracked down a cutting board and knife.</div>
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I didn’t skin my potatoes, because it didn’t say to on
the pin (though it does on the Self recipe), so all I had to do was hack up the
potatoes into fry-shaped strips. I cut the potatoes in half first to facilitate
easier cutting. </div>
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Then I tossed the potatoes in a Rubbermaid container that
I knew had a lid and added enough water to cover them. I’m not entirely sure
what this step did, unless it was meant to clean the potatoes further. </div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yWzCQ0DsETw/UGksVqGOFqI/AAAAAAAAAJM/81f6z60vzRk/s1600/use-drying2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="212" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yWzCQ0DsETw/UGksVqGOFqI/AAAAAAAAAJM/81f6z60vzRk/s320/use-drying2.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Seriously, was this for cleanliness? I already scrubbed the potatoes.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qLZZD_YraTQ/UGksWb250aI/AAAAAAAAAJU/lu8caTSPZ8M/s1600/use-tossed+with+oil2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qLZZD_YraTQ/UGksWb250aI/AAAAAAAAAJU/lu8caTSPZ8M/s320/use-tossed+with+oil2.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I went a tad overboard on the olive oil.</span></td></tr>
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Then I drained out the water and tossed the potatoes on
some paper towels so I could pat them dry with another paper towel.</div>
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I dried out the container I just had the fries in and
dumped them back in there along with about 3 tablespoons of olive oil. I put
the lid on and shook the potatoes up until I felt they were solidly mixed (a
few healthy shakes). </div>
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I decided I wanted to be super lazy and put aluminum foil
over my cookie sheet, which I sprayed with non-stick cooking spray. Then I
fished the potatoes out of the container with a slotted spoon so I wouldn’t end
up wasting a ton of olive oil (that stuff’s expensive!) on the cookie sheet. </div>
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I arranged them haphazardly on the sheet and then tossed
a bit of sea salt on them. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Oiled up and ready for the beach (or my oven).</span></td></tr>
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I placed them on the middle rack of my oven and promptly
forgot about them for 25 minutes. The pin says to turn them occasionally (how
vague is that?), but I didn’t bother. </div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QfIIXIQd0ZQ/UGksUnTGnYI/AAAAAAAAAI8/eoZzGvelYuc/s1600/ready+to+bake+full1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QfIIXIQd0ZQ/UGksUnTGnYI/AAAAAAAAAI8/eoZzGvelYuc/s320/ready+to+bake+full1.jpg" width="239" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They're so shiny!</span></td></tr>
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I pulled them out after 25 minutes and tossed them on a
plate for easy eating. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Results</b></h4>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ScmIdEWDkng/UGksS55ekvI/AAAAAAAAAIk/astZEa3IyBY/s1600/done+on+plate1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ScmIdEWDkng/UGksS55ekvI/AAAAAAAAAIk/astZEa3IyBY/s400/done+on+plate1.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Maybe I should have turned these, or perhaps taken them out a little earlier.</span></td></tr>
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This was crazy easy to make. It required almost no
effort, and the fries were a satisfying substitute for regular old fried french
fries. Some of the fries turned out a little crunchier (read burnt) than I
would have liked, but most of them were the perfect amount of crispy. </div>
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The water part and subsequent drying of the recipe seemed
a little bit unnecessary and wasteful. I’d probably skip this step in the
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I wasn’t sure how much olive oil to use and definitely
overdid it on that part, but I ended up just tossing my veggies in the olive
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">oil with some spices and a little Parmesan cheese and it ended up very yummy
and not wasteful. The Self version of this recipe says to use 2 tablespoons of
olive oil. That would probably have been a perfect amount, and I wouldn’t have
felt the need to fish my fries out of the container with a slotted spoon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I also overcooked them a bit (big surprise). I am eventually going to figure out how to bake things perfectly in my oven (and then I'm promptly going to move out of my apartment probably). </span></div>
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I will definitely make these again, so kudos to Gwyneth
Paltrow. I really enjoyed her turn as Pepper Potts in the “Iron Man” and
“Avengers” movies, and she showed how multitalented she is with a turn on
“Glee” and now this cookbook. Thanks to those distinctive roles, I’ve finally
managed to not confuse her with Cate Blanchett.<br />
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UPDATE</h4>
Thanks to my college friend and Post colleague Emily Carroll <span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[1].[1][2][1]{comment12316608:10101034653393224:63_13199316}..[1]..[1]..[0].[2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[1].[1][2][1]{comment12316608:10101034653393224:63_13199316}..[1]..[1]..[0].[2]."><span id=".reactRoot[1].[1][2][1]{comment12316608:10101034653393224:63_13199316}..[1]..[1]..[0].[2]..[0]">I learned that the water removes excess starch
and helps make the fries crispier. So apparently dunking the potatoes in water is a worthwhile step. <i>(5:32 p.m. Oct. 1, 2012)</i></span></span></span></div>
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Nicole Franzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12975867997106385459noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623012180858181392.post-14425567107695256562012-09-18T13:02:00.000-04:002012-09-19T01:41:50.532-04:00Healthy cookie dough promises full flavor without full fat<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EYXozKOis4I/UFlZVEm8G6I/AAAAAAAAAHo/txWhpLT85DY/s1600/ingredients.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EYXozKOis4I/UFlZVEm8G6I/AAAAAAAAAHo/txWhpLT85DY/s320/ingredients.jpg" width="320" /></a>This <a href="http://bit.ly/ObHL8a">pin</a> promised me a “Healthy
Cookie Dough Dip recipe - made with chickpeas.” And I suppose it delivered on
that. Clicking on the pin, the <a href="http://bit.ly/OYtjfC">blog</a>
written by a woman named Marianna, says “It tastes exactly like cookie dough.”</div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-L92KJt2OVGA/UFlZXONhPZI/AAAAAAAAAIA/kUOvFt4ssH0/s1600/ready+to+process.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-L92KJt2OVGA/UFlZXONhPZI/AAAAAAAAAIA/kUOvFt4ssH0/s320/ready+to+process.jpg" width="240" /></a>As a former kitchen
helper who grew up with the privilege of licking the spoon and beater, I cannot
get enough cookie dough. Sometimes I make cookie dough with the intent of just
eating cookie dough. Though the sugary goodness is delicious, it’s also a tad fattening
(I don’t know if you heard but eating a vat of dough is probably bad for you),
so I naturally was stoked at the idea of something healthy that tastes “exactly
like cookie dough.”</div>
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So one night when I got
home from work and my sweet tooth hit, I thought I’d give it a shot.</div>
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The ingredients are
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<b>Ingredients</b></h4>
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2 cups of chick peas (You can buy a can in the store. Just be sure to drain
them.)<br />
1/2 tsp. of salt<br />
1/2 cup of chocolate chips<br />
2 tsp. of vanilla<br />
3 TBSP of sugar<br />
2 TBSP of coconut oil (or any oil)<br />
2 TBSP of milk<br />
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<b>Instructions</b></h4>
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Mix everything together in a food processor. Or pulse in a blender. Everything,
BUT the chocolate chips. You want to pulse it until everything is really
smooth. When you finish just add chocolate chips and serve!</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How it went</b></h4>
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I don’t have coconut oil,
nor have I been able to locate it anywhere in a grocery store, so I used the
canola oil I had lying around, it fits the “or any oil” part, right?</div>
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my Magic Bullet and attempted to get everything “really smooth.” As you can see
this didn’t work too well. The dough was still pretty chunky after I blended it
for an extended period of time (3+ minutes), so I added a touch more milk and a
touch more oil, maybe a teaspoon of both. This seemed to help but again the texture
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I tried taking it off and
stirring it to get it to get the dough to mix better. Nothing seemed to work.
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it was going to get texture-wise. So I spooned the most well-mixed parts of the
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I added the chocolate
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It was awful. I had two
bites and had to put it down. It wasn’t sweet enough. It wasn’t creamy enough.
It tasted nothing like cookie dough to me. When I got a bite of the chocolate
chips it made it bearable, but overall it was too chickpea-y. I like chickpeas,
but if I’m expecting something “exactly like cookie dough” they are not high on
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I tried to rescue it by
adding more sugar. Nope, nothing could be done. It was awful. I ended up
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If this is what all healthy
cookie dough alternatives are like then I will happily take the calories, fat
and sugar of real cookie dough. I guess I’ll just work on moderation with the
real thing, and cherish those full-fat memories of licking cookie dough off the
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Nicole Franzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12975867997106385459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623012180858181392.post-28117251945303349382012-09-02T12:30:00.000-04:002012-09-02T17:20:42.056-04:00Baked avocado fries are yummy alternative to fried snacks<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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I love avocados. They’re high in potassium, they have the
“good fat” (whatever that is exactly), and they’re yummy. If they were
consistently inexpensive they’d be a regular part of my diet, instead of an
oooh-they’re-on-sale-so-I’ll-buy-four kind of item. </div>
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I also crave greasy junk food from time to time (who
doesn’t?), but I’m trying to be healthy and shed a few pounds. That’s why my
eyes kind of light up when I see pins for foods that have that
deep-fried/sugary/fatty look, but promise a healthier way to achieve the taste
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This <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_170390441">pin </a><a href="http://bit.ly/NsJhyx">for baked avocado</a> fries might have actually made me salivate a bit. I love
French fries dipped and avocados (so much fat!), but had never thought of
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The pin actually refers you to <a href="http://bit.ly/NsBUc4">this blog</a>, which then refers you to
another blog called <a href="http://bit.ly/PdBMyR">Adventured in Cooking</a>,
where the recipe (and some pretty cute photos of the blogger’s baby son
reside). Beth (the blogger), adopted a <a href="http://bit.ly/RLUSNs">deep-fried avocado fries recipe</a> from Circle B. Kitchen, another blog about food. Have I lost you yet?</div>
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I stuck with Beth’s recipe, which is exactly the same as the
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1/4 cup flour </div>
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Coat avocado slices in the four, then egg, then panko.
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wedges with olive oil and sprinkle with salt, then bake for about 20 minutes at
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assembling all the ingredients, I’d even bought kosher salt for this recipe
(and many others I’m going to try for this blog). I had plain bread crumbs from
Giant Eagle and figured those would sub for panko, nicely. </div>
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“2 firm-ripe medium avocados, pitted, peeled, and sliced
into 1/2-in. wedges.” Each avocado ended up yielding about 10 slices for me. I
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“Coat avocado slices in the four, then egg, then panko.” This
one got a little messy (I’m starting to think it might be me). Avocados are
slick to begin with, and the flour/egg/bread crumb combo seemed to get a little
tricky. I arranged everything assembly-line style, and started by hand. That
ended up with my paws covered in flour, egg and breadcrumbs. I tried to use a
fork. That ended up with my hands slightly less covered in flour, egg and
breadcrumbs, but kind of ended up breaking one of my avocado slices in half. I
tried using tongs and that didn’t help. I ended up using a fork/hand combo that
seemed to work for me. The other problem I encountered here was getting
everything to coat evenly on the avocados. I seemed to be brushing off flour,
and then it would clump on the avocado slices awkwardly then fall off in the
egg. I ended up with slices that had patches where the coating didn’t take.<br />
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“Spread on a cooling rack that has been sprayed with
non-stick spray, then place on a cookie sheet.” I actually don’t own a cooling
rack. I do own a toaster oven though. And that toaster oven has a mini-oven
rack that I can pull out. I used that as my makeshift cooling rack. It’s not
terribly large, so I did my avocados in two batches. I failed to spray the rack
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“Spray the top of the wedges with olive oil and sprinkle
with salt.” I actually didn’t have spray olive oil and couldn’t find a
reasonably priced can when I went looking in the grocery store, so I just went
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“Bake for about 20 minutes at 450, or until they are golden
brown.” My oven runs hot, which I found out when I baked blueberry cheesecake
cookies, so I turned it down to about 425 and put them in. I checked them at 17
minutes and they got a little darker than I would have liked. I wished I’d
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Pulling my slightly burnt pieces off the rack ended up breaking them in half a few times, which I'm sure could have been avoided with some cooking spray.<br />
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I waited a minute or two for them to cool enough to not
scald my tongue and dug in. They have a great crunch on the outside and a real creamy
inside. They easily fall apart though so be careful. I enjoyed them all right
with the Parmesan cheese sprinkled on top, but I thought they would do well with a
much bolder spice, like red pepper or Cajun seasoning.</div>
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My second batch I sprayed the rack and they came out much
easier. I also added Cajun seasoning to the salting portion of the recipe. I
cooked the second batch for about 15 minutes after nudging my oven down a hair
from 425 degrees. My tweaking resulted in a much less burnt version of the
avocado fries. This appetizing plate was calling me. I enjoyed this batch
without parmesan more. The Cajun spices blending well with avocado, but I think
you could season to your taste with any number of different spices. I’m not a
big parmesan cheese fan (it’s not even in my top three white cheeses), so those
who are more into its flavors might enjoy that seasoning better than my Cajun
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I definitely recommend them for taste, but it’s a bit of a
hassle as a recipe and quite messy. I think it’s a versatile recipe with lots
of potential variations, but it’s not going to be one I bust out a lot. But if
you’re looking for a fried food alternative and you’re an avocado fan, this
should definitely be in the mix.</div>
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Nicole Franzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12975867997106385459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8623012180858181392.post-92074473652441934742012-08-14T14:31:00.000-04:002012-08-14T14:31:00.816-04:00Freezing leftover sauces in ice cube trays is cool, thrifty idea<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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You remember those yummy <a href="http://bit.ly/OoHg5x">pesto crescent rolls</a> I made. Well, that recipe
left me with a lot of pesto sauce, and I live by myself. One of the unfortunate
parts I’ve found to living alone is that you end up throwing out a lot of food. </div>
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I learned to grocery shop for a family of six. I used to go
to Kroger’s with my mom, and we’d fill up a whole cart (sometimes two,
particularly when my brothers were adolescents) with supplies to feed a pack of
hungry Franzes. My natural instinct when I buy is to go for the bigger package
to get a better deal. </div>
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Do the math though: While the price per ounce is usually
cheaper on larger items, sales often render small packages a bigger bargain.</div>
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No matter what size you buy, it’s not a better deal if you
end up throwing away half a jar of pasta sauce because it got moldy. That’s
where this <a href="http://bit.ly/O0wtND">pin</a> comes
in with its brilliant idea to use ice cube trays to preserve sauces. </div>
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The pin highlights a blog post from Tip Garden with “Money Saving
Tips Using Ice Cube Trays.” There’s a bunch of tips in here I’ve seen floating
around Pinterest and haven’t gotten around to trying (the lemon and vinegar
garbage disposal cleaner for one), but I did test out the sauce freezing with
my leftover pesto sauce.</div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XpimUxuJvsg/UCnrs8Doz0I/AAAAAAAAAEQ/MMaUuuji164/s1600/Pin+Posibble+062.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XpimUxuJvsg/UCnrs8Doz0I/AAAAAAAAAEQ/MMaUuuji164/s320/Pin+Posibble+062.jpg" width="239" /></a>I had enough pesto sauce leftover to fill eight cube slots,
which Tip Garden informs me is equivalent to a cup of sauce (“1 standard sized
cube = 2 Tablespoons , 2 cubes= 1/4 cup, 4 cubes = 1/2 cup”).</div>
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Once they were completely frozen, I popped them out into a
plastic bag and wrote “Pesto” on the bag (Just in case I forgot what the green
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microwave or straight into a pan the next time I decide I need a pesto fix. I’m
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And I’m definitely going to use this tip on pumpkin (one of
my favorite ingredients), yogurt and more. Now I feel like I can shop the sales
and not worry about being wasteful on certain perishables. And I can pop open
the big jar of pasta sauce and not worry about having to throw out most of it.</div>
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I’m sorry I didn’t post sooner. Works been busy with people
taking vacations (including myself for a long weekend) and unfortunately, this
blog kept getting shoved to the back burner. Thankfully, it didn’t burn like a
pot of chili left sitting too long without stirring (I hate when I forget to
stir and it gets all gunky on the sides and bottom). </div>
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First off, there’s nothing like clicking on a pin and going
through to the website it links to and realizing this website is most
definitely not in English. The pin that inspired this post, took me to this
website, which is written in Turkish. Lucky for me, there was a handy-dandy
translate button at the top of the page where Google would translate it for me.</div>
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The website and the <a href="http://bit.ly/NRNrQZ">pin</a> have different instructions. The
<a href="http://bit.ly/PhPoTW">website</a>, once translated into something I can (mostly) read, is for a
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Because my blog is based on Pinterest and figuring out
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Instructions</h4>
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“basil pesto - press out crescent roll dough. spread pesto.
roll up into a log. slice. place in a pie plate like cinnamon rolls. try not to
eat the whole pan.”<br />
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How it went</h4>
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Simple enough.</div>
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I used <a href="http://bit.ly/MPvaXu">Pillsbury Crescents</a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/OgSewN">Knorr</a> pesto sauce mix. </div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-okdgvF-iniE/UBeB1mczjTI/AAAAAAAAADA/HaSfL6zEVLI/s1600/Pesto-sauce-made.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-okdgvF-iniE/UBeB1mczjTI/AAAAAAAAADA/HaSfL6zEVLI/s200/Pesto-sauce-made.jpg" width="200" /></a>I decided it would make sense to start by making the pesto
sauce. I love pesto but had never made it until embarking on this recipe. I
followed the instructions on the mix packet to the letter and the result was
this lovely green sauce that kind of looks like it would be at home in a
witch’s cauldron but tastes delicious. </div>
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Now for the “press out crescent roll dough” part. I arranged
the triangular pieces of dough by hand in a rectangle and used by fingers to
press the edges together as best I could. I imagine a rolling pin might have
been helpful but I don’t have one. My edges weren’t perfect which made things
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big glob of pesto sauce and spread it around with the spoon. Then I added some
more and continued swirling it around until I was satisfied the dough was
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“Roll up into a log.” This is where things got a bit ugly. I
know I’m a messy cook. Always have been, but this got a little extreme, even
for me because the dough wasn’t very well pressed together. The dough started
to come apart as I was rolling it up by hand. To add to the mess, it seems that
I had gone a bit overboard on the pesto sauce, because this thing was
hemorrhaging pesto. My hands got covered in pesto, which explains why this shot
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“Slice.” Not very specific, eh? I went with slices about an
inch wide, and, wow, was this another messy experience. I was using a slightly serrated
knife, and it was very difficult to cut the roll cleanly. I ended up with 11 of
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“Place in a pie plate like cinnamon rolls.” I guess I missed
the memo about how cinnamon rolls are placed in a pie plate. I just kind of spaced
them evenly apart in the pie plate. Only later did I realize, the instructions
probably meant to place the dough a little more tightly together, slightly
touching so when it puffed up during baking they’d be touching and pulled
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Skipped instructions — the pin neglects to give any sort of
baking instructions so I decided to go with the Pillsbury Crescent rolls’
baking instructions (375 degrees for 11-13 minutes). I ended up with these
gorgeous golden brown crescent rolls in about 11 minutes. They look pretty
awesome if I do say so myself.</div>
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“Try not to eat the whole pan.” I waited a bit to let them
cool off before I tried one. It was pretty darn delicious, but I don’t think
the pesto flavor was very strong. It was too subtle for my personal tastes. To
up the pesto flavor, I dipped the pesto crescent roll into the pool of pesto
sauce left on the pan where I rolled it all up in the sloppiest way a person
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Hindsight</h4>
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<li>Probably should have used less of the sauce when I was
rolling it out to prevent the total mess from oozing all over the place.</li>
<li>Probably would have been better with a stronger pesto
sauce, perhaps made from fresh basil.</li>
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I don’t have fancy plates, specialized kitchen gadgets, high-end tools or
professional photography skills (my camera even has tape and rubber bands
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But I do have a hand-mixer that's older than I am, the tool kit I took to college and the will to try those sweet recipes, grueling
workouts, cleaning tips, money-saving tricks and do-it-yourself projects that
look so cool on Pinterest. </div>
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And I’ll give it to you straight. You’ll see what happens
when it works out perfectly and when it doesn’t go right at all — burnt
cookies, butchered crafts and botched jobs. </div>
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This is a warts and all blog of a
real person trying to answer the questions you have when you look at those pins and go "I wonder how that would turn out." </div>
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