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March 25th, 2024

A Very Banana-y Banana Bread from Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook: A Cookbook

This is a wonderful banana bread with bananas as the star and brown butter in the supporting role. No spice, no chocolate chips and no nuts needed. My 4 bananas came in closer to 400-410 grams and the... read more >


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Sweet & Simple: Dessert for Two

By Christina Lane
Countryman Press - 2017

This review is for the frosting only, which I used with a Lemon cake from the authors other dessert book, Dessert For Two. This frosting was simple to pull together and had great lemon flavor. I did have to add another tablespoon or so of powdered sugar, perhaps since I used a very large and juicy lemon.

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28th August 2018

Perfect Sugar Cookies : page 24

I'm more of a vanilla/brown butter kinda girl, I rarely involve chocolate in my desserts. For me, this super simple, "plain Jane", cookie is always welcome. It was soft and chewy with cracked, lightly sugared tops, and tasted of pure vanilla and butter. The recipe does have a small edit needed - in the list of ingredients the author mentions baking soda, but in the directions it calls for incorporating baking powder. I double checked her version of these cookies on her website and it is baking soda needed here. My only other problem was that it only made 8 cookies;(

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