I try to always make sure to eat fruits and vegetables when they’re in season and at their peak in flavor and nutrition, and pumpkin is no exception. I crave anything pumpkin this time of year. Pumpkin bread, pumpkin cake, pumpkin scones, pumpkin pie…and pumpkin muffins! You can make your own pumpkin puree from scratch by roasting a sugar (pie)…
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Pumpkin Caramels
Do you love caramel as much as I do? Do you love salted caramel as much as I do? Do you love anything with pumpkin in it and salted caramel as much as I do? Are you sick of these questions and just want to make some darn yummy homemade caramels? Well, if you answered yes to any of the…
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Butter Pecan Cake
If you’re a fan of butter pecan ice cream, then you will love this cake as much as I do. I created it to have all of the same flavor notes as the ice cream, sweet vanilla with buttery pecans. It’s an extra special cake for the holidays because it’s just rich enough to be holiday worthy but not too…
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Butter Vanilla Cake
For as long as I can remember, since starting to make my own scratch cakes, yellow cake has been my nemesis. I admit that I am pretty hard to please when it comes to a yellow cake because I always imagine a taste like a southern butter pound cake and a mouth feel like a fluffy yellow oil-based…(gasp) box cake….
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Swiss Meringue Buttercream
Like a brown-eyed baby born with blue eyes, all my Swiss meringue buttercreams are born vanilla. The only exception to that is my brown sugar buttercream because it doesn’t follow the recipe below. Make up a batch of vanilla buttercream and imagine the possibilities. You can add some melted white or dark or milk chocolate, any kind of homemade fruit…
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