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Hammentaschen Recipe. All Variations
Hammentaschen:
The signature triangle-shaped fun Purim cookie. It is shrouded in legend, myth, old-wives tales and folklore: Is it ear-shaped? Is it purse-shaped? Read on!) It is shaped with three points pinched around a jam or other filling.…
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Almond Streusel Coffee Cake Recipe
Coffee Cake
This could be breakfast tomorrow. Imagine that!
Lemon, cinnamon and almonds, oh my. Outrageous match. This coffee cake is a wonderful brunch choice, as it has the look and texture of a yeasted pastry, thanks to the tang imparted…
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Oatmeal Cake with Chocolate Icing Recipe
Oatmeal Cake
Oatmeal anytime!
If you thought oatmeal was just breakfast, try oats in this fantastic oatmeal cake. Dessert doesn't get healthier than this!
I adore everything oats
The flavor, the texture, the ease of preparation, the…
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Marbled Chinese Cookies Recipe. Gluten-Free Friendly
Marbled Chinese Cookies
This is one of my favorite bakery weaknesses. I just love their shortbread brittle-crisp and mealy texture, with the wispy chocolate veins running thought them. Here the chocolate plays a very discreet but essential…
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Anise and Sesame Galettes Recipe
Galettes: My sister Lea's are the best
Even my mother agrees! And that is saying a lot.
Galettes are a staple at my house in Morocco, and still are at my mother's house, where all children clamor for them, calling them Maman Biscuit (they…
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My Famous Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe: CCC? Si si si!
My Chocolate Chip Cookies are famous!
We all think of eating cookies as a short-lived and vaguely illicit pleasure. Except I honestly think, and you can ask anyone, there’s no cookie in the world more worshiped and more baked than my smart…
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Carrot Cake: Our Award Winning Recipe
Carrot Cake: Our Award Winning Recipe!
Me, my sister Lea and my husband Maurice. Circa 1979, selling our famous carrot cake at a Central Park Fair. We sliced until we dropped.
Our Post-Woodstock Pre-Chassidic days. You like? I remember…
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Muffins Recipes. Including Vegan and Gluten-Free
Muffins Galore!
That's right: You say cupcakes, I say muffins!
Gosh, I would hate to lose my popularity with the junior cupcake crowd, but many years of catering kids’ parties and watching their delighted faces as their lick their fingers…
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Apricot Oat Bars Recipe. Gluten-Free Friendly
My apricot oat bars are incredibly easy and wonderful! There is nothing I don’t do with oats, even mudpacks and hair rinses (which of course I don’t eat, or drink, respectively: Relax!) No problem whatsoever adapting these apricot oat bars to…
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Pumpkin Cranberry Cake Recipe
Pumpkin Cranberry Cake
Cranberry tart, Cranberry vinegar, Cranberry everything: there’s no cranberry food I dont adore. When fresh cranberries pile up, right around now, on produce stalls, I pounce on them.
The perfect Thanksgiving…