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Day 2 of Hurricane Irene! What better way to celebrate this perilous day that's full of fraught tension than Chocolate Chip Cookies? This recipe is from Betty Crocker's Cookbook and it was my first chocolate chip recipe. It has also become my last one too since I can't seem to make any other chocolate chip recipes.I love this recipe so much and it has become my quintessential idea of comfort

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What better way to celebrate Hurricane Irene than with baking? It's been a while since I've had time to bake and with the forced shut down of NYC, I'm spending it in the kitchen. The recipe was inspired by Allrecipe's Raspberry Almond Muffins: Ingredients: 1 cup slivered almonds 2 cups all-purpose flour 2/3 cup white sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/4 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 4

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New Yorkers were able to enjoy a snow day due to the blizzard that hit our area. I celebrated with a leisure breakfast: French Toast, Chinese style. The main difference between Chinese and American style French toast is the topping. Chinese-style use condensed milk and American-style use maple or pancake syrup. The recipe is a bit hodgepodge since measuring spoons weren't used but it's fairly

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The Chinese Almond Cookies recipe is from Pichet Ong's cookbook "The Sweet Spot: Asian-Inspired Desserts."  Almond cookies to Chinese people is similar to how chocolate chip cookies are to Americans; it's one of our notorious dessert items. People can find them in Chinese bakeries and supermarkets. Personally, I'm not a fan of almond cookies. However, if they were homemade then maybe they would

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Through some random internet searches, I came across My Wooden Spoon and her Grandma's Homemade Banana Pudding recipe. The 'Grandma' in the title reeled me in. A grandma's recipe is practically no-fail and everyone knows that grandmothers are the best cooks so this was a must-try.  INGREDIENTS:     1 heaping  tbsp. flour     1/2 cup sugar     2 eggs     2 cups milk     butter     vanilla    

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The Raspberry and Almond Shortbread Thumbprints from Allrecipes are my favorite kind of cookies. It's a simple kind of recipe that doesn't use many ingredients but does require a bit more work than the average cookie since one would have to make the thumbprint to fill it with jam. However, these are worth it. INGREDIENTS: 1 cup butter, unsoftened 2/3 cup white sugar 1/2 teaspoon almond extract

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  Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are one of my favorite foods but how will it taste in the form of a cupcake? This recipe was attained from Better Homes and Gardens' cookbook Anyone Can Bake. 1 1/3 cups a/p flour 2/3 cup graham cracker crumbs 1 tbsp baking powder 1 cup creamy peanut butter 1/3 cup shortening 1 1/3 cups sugar 2 eggs 1 tsp vanilla 1 cup milk 24 bite-size chocolate covered

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Whoever came up with this window display deserves a serious pat on their back. This belongs to Cursive New York, located in Grand Central Terminal. Not only did it catch my attention but it slowed many people zipping pass. Good job!

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Long, long ago, before there was something called Google and even the internet, I would usually find my recipes on the back of boxes. I baked my first oatmeal raisin cookie from Quaker Oats  and am still using the recipe, albeit with a bit of modification: 2 sticks butter 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar 1/2 cup granulated sugar 2 eggs 1 tsp vanilla 1.5 cup a/p flour 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp

Tasty Confectionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03415776587072937885noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7717000480704331076.post-4514371081576741842010-03-18T01:03:00.002-04:002010-03-18T01:06:37.321-04:00

Tiffany, from FineChinaGirl, and I headed over to Spot Dessert Bar on 13 St. Marks Place in East Village. This is the first time she has been here and wanted to go due to yours truly. The sign has changed since I've been there but regardless of the color, I still love you Spot. The sign outside to draw in a passerby. My passion fruit belini was non-alcoholic. The top part was some passion fruit

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Today is Valentine's Day and oddly enough it is also the Chinese New Year. The Lunar New Year usually falls within the last two weeks of January or the first two weeks of February. This year, the year of the Tiger, it happened to fall on February 14th! During the Lunar New Year, people celebrate with food, festive music, red envelopes and lion dances. The lions dancing symbolize fortune and luck

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My home had some marshmallows leftover so before it went to waste, a recipe was found to finish the bag: S'mores Crumb Bar. The recipe was found on Allrecipes by its nifty search feature that allowed finding recipes according to the ingredient wanted. There were quite a few dishes that are made with marshmallows but this one caught my attention. Alterations were made to the original recipe. 1

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Condensed milk is an extremely sticky and sweet item that it is one of my favorite accompaniment with certain foods. Usually, a little bit of the stuff with toast or even replacing sugar with it in tea or coffee will hit the spot. When I came across the recipe for Condensed Milk Pound Cake from Pichet Ong's The Sweet Spot, it was a definite must-try. 1 1/3 cups (7 ounces/200 g) all-purpose

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  The flavor of butterscotch is created by combining butter and brown sugar. It's delicious with ice cream so it must be even better if it's fused together with brownies. The recipe used here is from Betty Crocker's Cookbook.     1/4 cup butter or margarine     1 cup packed brown sugar     1 teaspoon vanilla     2 tablespoons milk     1 large egg     1 cup all-purpose flour     1/2 cup

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The choice of this recipe was encouraged by a friend from Morocco. He wanted semolina cookies, one of his favorite treats while growing up. However, he doesn't have the recipe so we searched high and low for it. We finally settled on one that we found on youtube and subsequently the blog posted up by SouSouKitchen. My friend couldn't remember if the semolina cookies had coconut flakes in them

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  I wanted toffee candy but didn't want to make it because the last time I tried to, the results were not good. However a toffee bar recipe from Betty Crocker caught my attention and it looked like something that might satisfy my craving. Substantial changes were not made except to the type of pan used. I like desserts that have a bit of height and do not appreciate recipes that yield wafer

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Chocolate crinkles are beautiful cookies to give as gifts. They're especially perfect during the wintertime for they look like snowflakes. It has a soft chocolate center that conveys the idea of a cozy home, cookies and milk and a general warm fuzzy feeling. The recipe used is from Allrecipes and it is called Chocolate Crinkles II. This was a surprisingly easy cookie to make. The only hassle

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Season's greetings everyone. Hope y'all are enjoying the holiday and spending it with loved ones.

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Spot, a dessert bar on 13 St. Marks Place, between Second and Third Avenue, is an easy place to miss since they are located in the basement. Their sign, as photographed above, is noticeable at night but during the day, make an extra effort to find this gem. It's definitely worth it. A friend and I set out to look for Spot for we have enjoyed many delicious goods from the owner, Pichet Ong's

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This Lemon Buttermilk Pound Cake was from Allrecipes. The original recipe was a Buttermilk Pound Cake but the intensity of lemon was increased and turned into a different tasting cake. I chose this recipe mainly because it used buttermilk. A magazine advertised dried buttermilk; I was flabbergasted that such a creation existed and was quite happy with the discovery. Buttermilk in its wet and

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Lady M, a dessert boutique located on 41 East 78th Street, between Madison and Park Avenue, is noted for their Mille Crepe or Crepe Cake. In French, mille means thousand and crepe is a thin kind of French pancake. The name alludes to a cake that is made with a thousand layer of crepe but in reality, it's made with a maximum of twenty-eight layers. In between the layers is cream, which acts as

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I used to dread recipes that required zest because I had a box grater and it took twenty minutes to create a teaspoon of the stuff. Bits of the lemon would collect in between the holes and not enough would fall through for use. Using a tool to remove the zest particles that was stuck in between the holes cost more than it was worth because it would end up damaged. A box grater is dangerous

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Welcome to the beginning of Tasty Confection! I decided to christen it with Mum's Coconut Lemon Cake from What's for Lunch, Honey? I found the recipe while searching for a lemon coconut cake. The recipes that were out there were 2 or even 3-tiered cakes. I wanted something simple and was quite happy when I found What's for Lunch, Honey?. The original recipe uses a different measuring system

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