Category: Desserts
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Thumbprint Cookies – Nowruz Recipe
I‘m at an age when I may be guilty of idealizing my youth in a kind of “the good old days” filter that blocks out any unpleasant memories of political or cultural unease. Of course, I wasn’t aware of any such issues, at least not in a way that was meaningful: I had a privileged…
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Flour Head Bakery’s Appalachian Trail Mix Cookies
You cook? Then try this recipe, post a picture on social media and tag us! Also use our hash tag #FoodGottaCook and we’ll randomly pick a winner and send them a Tomato Head Gift Card! I have a sneaky feeling that the creation of gravy happened somewhere at the intersection of accident and eureka. In…
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Chess Pie
Chess pie may not be what you think it is. There’s the name, of course; unlike apple or peach or even buttermilk pie, chess pie doesn’t sound like what’s in it. It doesn’t promise a crust filled with bishops or even pawns. There are many stories about its name, and in one version, as Mahasti…
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Hot Milk Cake
Despite the digital age and the ease of having all my favorite books on a portable screen, I’m still dedicated to the real thing. Books fit my hand, and there’s something particularly satisfying about holding the bottom corner of the next page of between my thumb and index finger; it’s a tease to…
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Day!
We don’t mean this as a bait and switch, per se. It is not actually chocolate chip cookie day as the food calendar would have it, but, honestly, everyday there’s a warm cookie nearby is a de facto festival in my book. Today, while we are, in fact, celebrating the chocolate chip cookie, we’re doing…
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Gingerbread
Cookies are magic. We know it instinctively. It might be that some of us grew up believing that little elves who live in hollow trees make magic in the form of fudge stripes on shortbread and the like. For me, the magic is in the memory of family kitchens filled, especially at this time of…
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Royal Icing
This is a great icing for icing sugar cookies and gingerbread cut out cookies 1/3 cup Pasteurized Egg Whites 1 tsp Vanilla Extract 3-4 cups Powdered Sugar, sifted Beat the egg whites in the bowl of your stand mixer with the whisk attachment or with your hand-held mixer until the mixture looks frothy. Add the…
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Flour Head Bakery’s Pumpkin Pie
Yum Ingredients 2 cups Fresh or Canned Pumpkin Puree 1 cup Heavy Cream 1/2 cup Milk 2 Eggs 1 Egg Yolk 1/2 cup Sugar 2 TBL Butter, melted 1/2 tsp Salt 3/4 tsp Ground Cinnamon 1/2 tsp Ground Ginger 1/4 tsp Ground Nutmeg 1/8 tsp Ground Clove 1 tsp Vanilla One 9-inch-deep dish prepared pie…
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Flour Head Bakery’s Orange You a Vol Cake
It strikes many people as strange that I can not only sing the UT Alma Mater to its actual tune, but that I can also sing it to the tunes of Gilligan’s Island, Ghost Riders in the Sky, and Amazing Grace. It is a rare and formidable talent, I admit, but it is one that…
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Lemon Cake
For many juvenile Southerners, like young and tender me, lemon lives in the libation section of the memory because it of its inextricable association with tall and frosty vessels of our beloved iced tea. And though a bright yellow wedge of citrus perched happily on the edge of a glass signals sweet refreshment for some,…