Cheese Cake Pie

I have never been good in Math. Add to my have never been good in Math my have not taken a Read more

Langues de Chat (Cat’s Tongues)

Although I find this recipe needing a little more work, I decided to share it with you now. I thought maybe you’d like to follow me in my quest to perfect lengua de gatos. Read more

Apple Custard Cupcakes

From day one, I had this vision of what I wanted for The CookMobile header~a chef driving a car. You know, Cook…Mobile? I knew from the start what I wanted but I didn’t know how to go Read more

Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies

Pour a glass of cold milk and forget Oreos! A creamy filling made with peanut butter and cream cheese gives classic peanut butter cookies a special twist Read more

Banana Nut Muffin

These muffins are a refreshing alternative to store-bought cookies and are a cost-friendly snack item for the kids’ pack lunches or for take-alongs to family picnics. For an interesting variation, I made use of the versatility of the recipe by substituting, on half of the muffin batter, my leftover blueberries and blackberries in place of the mashed banana. Before I popped
this blueberry-blackberry batch into the oven to bake, I sprinkled on top the cinnamon-streusel topping I used for my berry crumble. Read more

Spinach, Roma and Ricotta Pizza

This is a rewrite. An hour ago, I had a three-paragraph spiel to go with this recipe. I went on and on about how much I love pizzas, how much I spend on pizzas, how much I’d love to learn how to make pizzas, how much easier my life is with pizzas. I was actually feeling happy talking about pizzas. Then, I accidentally clicked on “delete”. Pffftt! There it went! So, here Iam, trying to reconstruct the previous contents. The only struggle is, the day I hit the 30+ mark, not only did things start to hang, things started to get forgotten as well Read more

One-Bowl Brownies

This one-bowl brownie recipe is one quick sweet fix! Aptly called, everything gets prepared in one bowl and the brownie treats are ready for greedy mouths in less than 40 minutes! The original recipe calls for two cups of sugar but I found that proportion too sweet so for once, I decided to give my Islets of Langerhans a break and tried one and a half instead. Read more

Chocolate Velvet Cake with Crunchy Coconut Topping

When I had a fiasco with my cupcakes, I searched and found a wealth of knowledge available over the world wide web to remedy this. This recipe validates one tip~adding mayonnaise to the batter. I found this rich, mouth-wateringly moist chocolate velvet cake recipe on a late 1970’s magazine clipping of a Best Foods’ advertisement. Read more

Written by Lalaine · Filed Under From the Oven 

Coconut Macaroons

December 19, 2007

These soft and chewy coconut macaroons are raised to a whole new level of deliciousness by dipping into melted bittersweet chocolate! The recipe is one of the Christmas cookies presented by Family Circle magazine for holiday gift giving. Read more

Written by Lalaine · Filed Under From the Oven, Sweets and Treats 

Unbelievable Peanut Butter Cookies

December 16, 2007

Perfectly-named cookies! My cook at work discovered this peanut butter cookie recipe on the packaging of our C&H granulated cane sugar. We tried it for one of our parties and have been using it regularly as part of our patients’ morning coffee social ever since. Unbelievably easy, this 2 1/2 dozen production size is done in less than 40 minutes from start to finish! Read more

Written by Lalaine · Filed Under From the Oven 

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