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Passion Fruit Cupcakes for Valentine’s Day with White Chocolate Frosting

I have to give credit where credit is due.ย  Jonathan came up with the idea for these passion fruit cupcakes for Valentine's Day with white chocolate frosting.ย  I mentioned that I was trying to โ€ฆ

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pavlova covered with whipped cream, fresh fruit, and flowers

How to Make a Stunning Pavlova

While a pavlova may seem like a super fancy dessert, it's actually very easy to make. It's a giant meringue with a fluffy interior. The key to โ€ฆ

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Chocolate Olives

Chocolate-Covered Olives – Olive and Chocolate Aphrodisiac Love Bombs

Green olives are reputed to make men more virile and dark chocolate has been thought since the time of the ancient Mayans to increase erotic pleasure. Combine olives and chocolate and you have little aphrodisiac โ€ฆ

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Cupcakes with sprinkles in green striped wrappers

Complete Guide to Making Perfect Cupcakes

Learn how to make cupcakes from scratch for birthdays, parties, or any day - and get great cupcake-making tips and help with cupcake baking problems. This guide to baking cupcakes covers the basics of โ€ฆ

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Sugar Pie

Cream Pie – The Sugar Cream Pie That Tastes Like Crรจme Brรปlรฉe

Cream pie (sometimes called sugar cream pie) tastes like crรจme brรปlรฉe in pie format. It's rich and decadent and the filling requires just six ingredients - sugar, butter, half and half, vanilla, nutmeg, and cornstarch. โ€ฆ

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Apple strudel with a slice cut off and placed on a square white plate

Puff Pastry Apple Strudel

My cheater puff pastry apple strudel is made by wrapping an overflowing spiced apple filling with store-bought flaky puff pastry. I finish it off with an outrageous sweet apple glaze. โ€ฆ

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Vanilla and Strawberry Mousse Layer Cake

Easy Strawberry Mousse Cake

This strawberry mousse cake has an intoxicating strawberry smell and a heavenly taste. This is a mousse cake recipe that you can finish with a mirror glaze, but it certainly doesn't demand one. โ€ฆ

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Pomegranate Tart

Pomegranate Tartlets

Virginie Wiggins is back to share her pomegranate tartlets recipe. Not only did she write this post and let me try her delicious tartlets, but she let Myles play at โ€ฆ

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Cupcake on a Super Bowl napkin with a buffalo chicken wing on top

Super Bowl Cupcakes – Game Day Buffalo Chicken Cupcakes

These Super Bowl cupcakes are no joke - they're made with hot sauce and blue cheese and taste phenomenal! When my house started to smell like buffalo wings (there was no chicken involved โ€ฆ

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Collage of gift ideas for bakers

Gifts for Bakers – 25+ Best Gift Ideas

Do you need gifts for bakers in your life? I've created the ultimate gift guide! Start here to find something great for the cupcake, cookie, cake, pie, or bread baker on your list! There are โ€ฆ

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Neapolitan Cookies

Neapolitan Cookies

Like all Neopolitan desserts, these cookies are tri-colored. They are soft and chewy and taste like the tried-and-true combination of vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate. "Each of these Neapolitan cookies is like a snowflake," says โ€ฆ

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two mugs of hot chocolate with a large marshmallow in each

The Best Homemade Hot Chocolate (Drinking Chocolate)

This recipe is, hands-down, the best homemade hot chocolate recipe I've ever had. It's so rich, so packed with chocolate flavor, that it's hard to put your mug down. I began โ€ฆ

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Better Than Sex Cupcakes

Better Than Sex Cupcakes: Chocolate Times Five

I don't want a 'plain chocolate cupcake'. I want a phenomenal, rich, delectable, 'better than sex' chocolate cupcake. Milk chocolate? White chocolate? Dark chocolate? All of the the above. Not EVERY โ€ฆ

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White plate filled with a pile of honey cookies

Simple Honey Cookies

Often, honey cookies are super soft and chewy. Not these - they are crisp on the outside and soft on the inside. They hold their shape really well so you can use them with โ€ฆ

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Mirror Glaze Cake

Easy Mirror Glaze Cake

Mirror Glaze Cake is a cake made with glaze that is so shiny that you can almost see your reflection in it! While this type of glaze works best on smooth mousse cakes, it โ€ฆ

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