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Kitchen Topology With Challah
Tonight is the start of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. For me, holidays mean food, and for Rosh Hashanah the traditional treat is a round loaf of light and fluffy challah. Challah is an egg...
View ArticleStar Wars Cookie Cutters: Baking With The Force
I found these spectacular Star Wars cookie cutters at Williams-Sonoma last Spring, but had yet to try them. The occasion finally presented itself one evening when the baby went to sleep early and the...
View ArticleBeer the Whole Family Can Enjoy
A phrase I commonly hear when my husband and I go to our weekly Warhammer battles is, “What we really need is beer!” Unfortunately, alcohol is not allowed on the premises. A couple of weeks ago, one of...
View ArticleRandy Rudolph: Cupcakes With Character
Since I grew up in a house with two parents who are educators, I have always appreciated how difficult it is to be a teacher. You spend a lot of your at home time grading papers and making up lesson...
View ArticleNew Year’s Cupcakes
I came across these spectacular cupcakes and had to share them with my Geek peeps. I love making and decorating cupcakes and while they usually don’t turn out professional looking my daughter and I...
View ArticleFighting Cancer One Cupcake at a Time
I am in full party-planning mode. This will be the baby’s first birthday and, as fate would have it, he was born exactly 6 years and 6 days after his sister, so we are having a joint party. Yes, their...
View ArticlePractice Makes Perfect: Making Modeling Chocolate
After researching pictures of Chewbacca cakes, I came to the realization that he was a difficult character to recreate in dessert form. Most of the ones I found were scary, and not in a good way. There...
View ArticleA Review: Joseph Joseph Rolling Pin
I love to bake and I love kitchen gadgets. I am always on the lookout for things to make my baking a bit easier and consistent. One of the problems I have had is getting my sugar cookie dough to ......
View ArticleCook Up a Little Lovin’ in Your Oven
Okay, I know that all of the relationship experts out there are touting the romantic properties of flowers and jewelry this Valentine’s Day. Nothing for the kitchen, they say. Nothing that will require...
View ArticleBook Review: Big Book of Cupcakes
Many moons ago, I used to have a little baking company called “Princess Yum Yum.” I’m using the term “company” loosely. It was me and an oven. I would make birthday cakes, wedding cakes, shower favors,...
View ArticleSpace Shuttle Arts & Crafts
If you and your family watched yesterday’s launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis, you may find yourselves wanting to commemorate the event, or perhaps find that your children have a sudden spark of interest...
View ArticleBeam Me Up Scotty! Star Trek Cookies
Yesterday was the 45th Anniversary of Star Trek, so all sorts of Trekkie goodness was floating around the web. Our own Julia Sherred wrote up a wonderful post complete with video that would make even...
View ArticleSurvivable Holidays: Coping With Christmas
Christmas has always been one of my favorite holidays. My mom loved Christmas so it was always a big deal growing up in my house. My love for the holiday waned some after my mom passed away, but it was...
View ArticleThis Week With The GeekMoms
Sarah is looking forward to a visit from Santa this morning for some hopefully wonderful photo opportunities. She also plans to commence stage one of the big cookie experiment of ought eleven whilst...
View ArticleHow to Share Your Homebrew with Your Kids: Spent Grain Recipes
Making beer is a lot like making tea. Except when you’re finished making tea, you drink the tea and throw out the leaves. When you’re finished with the first step of making beer, you put the brew in a...
View ArticleReview Cupcakes, Cookies & Pie, Oh, My!
Cupcakes are hard to resist. Those tasty bits of cake with frosting and colorful little sprinkles on top seem to beckon with their cheery, sweet goodness. As a Mom, I almost always have them on my to...
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Kitchen Experiments: What Flour Makes The Best Biscuits?
I'm a biscuit geek. Full on biscuit-obsessed. I couldn't even begin to count how many biscuits I've made in pursuit of biscuit perfection. Thus I share that wisdom with you, such that you might jump...
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Georgetown Cupcake Opens In Boston!
The business quickly outgrew that first shop and the sisters expanded to a larger store nearby, but now they're expanding outside the DC area and opening shops across the US. In addition to Bethesda,...
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Warm Up With Delicious Recipes from the Moufflet Muffin Cookbook
There's also nothing quite like fresh-baked muffins on a cold day or first thing in the morning. Although there are old standards I make every year, I'm always looking for tasty new recipes. Moufflet:...
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