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Best Sugar Cookie Bake Off

Looking for the best sugar cookie recipe around? Me too. My memories of cookie baking include tons of time: getting out the heavy KitchenAid mixer, waiting for the dough to chill, rolling out mounds ...

Best Pumpkin Pie Bake Off

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Every year without fail, I find myself googling "best pumpkin pie recipe." With this experiment, we set out to answer the question sans the endless searching. Methodology: how we baked all 12 ...

Pumpkin Bread Bake Off

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In this post, we attempt to sort through the thousands of pumpkin bread recipes on the internet to figure out the best, once and for all. Methodology To start, I scraped 40 pumpkin bread recipes ...

Banana Buckwheat Pancakes, revisited

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It's been quite awhile since I've made pancakes, but when the craving hit, I decided to revisit an old single-serving recipe of mine. Oh how times have changed--back when I used to consume yogurt by ...

2 Days in Valencia (+ Sitges!)

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Sitges Valencia When Dan and I realized we had 5 and a half days to visit Spain after my conference in Barcelona in March, we immediately started brainstorming where else we ...

Avocado Toast Cake

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This past weekend, I flew back home to NorCal for my childhood friend's wedding. It was my first time being in a wedding and though I was v concerned about having to do my own hair and make up and ...

Potato and Egg Breakfast Tacos

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I've never been so happy to fold laundry, steam broccoli, wash dishes, and pass out in my own bed after catching up on all the Scandal episodes I missed while I've been away these past three ...

A Week in Barcelona

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La Sagrada Familia El Nacional Barceloneta El Xampanet Barcelona Slow Travel cooking class La Rambla, La Boqueria and beyond ...

Strawberry Momofuku Cake

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On Monday, I caught a death cold (wheezing coughing, extreme fatigue and so much mucus I thought I would never breathe right again) which was probably compounded by staying up until 1 a.m. to finish ...

Baked’s Caramel Apple Cake

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Once again, another roommate's birthday has come and gone and while no one is going to award me prizes for making perfectly leveled cakes, at least everyone said this one tasted good. Halfway (or ...