There are some weekends where I wake up and I must have what my family calls “sausage biscuits and gravy”. Don’t ask me why we say the ingredients in those order – it makes more sense to say biscuits and sausage gravy. Maybe it’s because my dad slides a sausage patty in between his biscuit halves. Or because by the…
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During my first foray into the food world at SusieCakes Bakery in Los Angeles, I ate plenty of cupcakes and Snickerdoodle cookies, but the one treat I still drive out of my way for is the bakery’s whoopie pie. The chocolate halves are extremely dense with a wonderful crackle, and the buttercream filling is not overtly sweet. So after years…
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I just can’t seem to miss an opportunity to enjoy St. Patrick’s Day to the fullest. Last year it was Bailey’s Irish Cream in the macarons. This year: Irish soda bread. The real story, the five-ingredient recipe (yes, it’s as simple as it sounds), and two ways to get more Guinness down the hatch… as if we needed an excuse…
I won’t admit how long ago this actually was, but my college roommate ate Fluffernutter sandwiches. FOR BREAKFAST. Remember those ridiculous treats with white bread, peanut butter, and marshmallow fluff oozing out every end? I thought she was completely nuts, pun entirely intended. Be careful, you can’t eat just one fluffernutter But one morning I took a leaf out of…
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My all-time favorite vanilla cupcake recipe One of my first, and absolutely favorite jobs in the food business was working as an assistant manager at the California-based SusieCakes Bakery. Yes, it had everything to with the free cupcakes at the end of the day that didn’t sell. We donated regularly to food banks, but of you closed up shop you…
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