Last night, I got a sudden craving for the Snackin’ Cakes of my childhood. Do you remember those? They were a box mix that mixed in the pan with a fork, and you just had to add water. They were super moist and yummy.
I don’t do mix cakes anymore (I like to be able to pronounce what I put in my kids’ bodies), and I don’t think the Snackin’ Cakes are made anymore.
So I decided to experiment and come up with my own version.
Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Snackin’ Cake
Whole Wheat Chocolate
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With our Indian dinner the other night, I made naan to go with the chicken tandoori and the curried cauliflower. It’s my favorite part of dinners at Indian restaurants, and I didn’t know until I started making it and told a few friends that apparently, it’s difficult to find a good naan recipe. I took a little from here, a little from there to make it. I guess a combination of knowing my ingredients, remembering vividly what naan at the restaurant tastes like, and a good amount of luck was at play, because my naan was fantastic. And not so
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I’m on a weight loss diet, and my daughter can’t eat most raw fruits, and she really misses banana. I’m not sure I have nearly enough willpower to pass up banana bread or muffins once I smell them baking, so I mixed a few different recipes, made some adaptations, and came up with this recipe.
Low-Calorie, Low-Fat Banana Muffins Recipe
Low-Fat, Low-Cal Banana Muffins
3/4 cup whole wheat flour
3/4 cups flour
1 1/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt
1 egg, slightly beaten
1 cup banana, mashed
1/3
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I like to make cakes from scratch because they taste about a hundred times better, they don’t have any ingredients I can’t pronounce, and the ingredients for cake are things I always have around the house anyway. This week, while my car was in the shop, I felt at ease knowing that at least we had everything I needed to make my boy’s birthday cake. Making a cake from scratch is really not any harder than making one from a mix.
Birthday cake with candles all lit
The thing is, though, that I
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Here’s another recipe that I put in the food gifts for Christmas. I also brought some of this shortbread to our homeschool group’s Christmas party. It is so tasty and rich that everyone thought I’d put a lot of work into the shortbread, but… well, you’ll see.
Brown Sugar Shortbread
Brown Sugar Shortbread
1 cup unsalted butter, softened (only use real butter)
1/2 cup brown sugar, packed (I used dark brown sugar, but you could use either)
2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
Heat the oven to 300° and get out a baking sheet. Cream
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I gave a lot of baked goods for Christmas presents this year. One of the favorites were these snickerdoodles.
Snickerdoodles are my favorite cookie – in my opinion, the best chocolate chip cookie can’t hold a candle to them. But I like cinnamon quite a bit more than chocolate, so t hat would explain that. 
Snickerdoodles
Yummy Snickerdoodle Cookies
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup cup shortening
1 1/2 cups white sugar
2 eggs
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tbsp. sugar
2 tsp. ground cinnamon
Preheat oven to 375° and
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I’ve totally gone off menu plan, but soup sounded so lovely. I had a rotten day yesterday, with a doctor’s visit that didn’t go well (no answers) and a bit of a panic attack (Ford Expeditions were NOT made for parking garages), and comfort food just sounded like the way to go.
I decided to make Quick Beef Vegetable Soup and some cornbread. It went a long way towards cheering me up!
Beef Vegetable Soup
Beef Vegetable Soup and Cornbread
1 tablespoon oil
1/2 pound chuck roast, cut into bite-sized bits
2 cloves
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Chocolate chip butterscotch cookies
When I bake cookies, I tend to lose interest after the first cookie sheet-ful is baked. After all, we’ve got our hot-from-the-oven cookie fix, but I don’t want all the rest of the dough to go to waste. I also don’t mind having ready to bake cookies available. Some folks just refrigerate the dough, but I find cold dough difficult to scoop. Other people scoop it out into cookie size dollops and freeze those – that way, when they want freshly baked cookies, they can
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We love French dips and meatball sandwiches and sub sandwiches around here, but the price of hoagie rolls is ridiculous. $3 for a pack of 6 smaller rolls – and there are 4 of us, so I’d have to buy two packs and have 4 left for lunch the next day. It really made a frugal meal like meatball subs into an expensive treat.
I love baking bread, so I don’t know why it took me so long to figure out that I could make my own sandwich rolls, but for some reason, it did. A couple months ago, I decided
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