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Halloween Whoopie Pies

Halloween Whoopie Pies

They’re Frightfully Delicious Like many parents, I find myself looking for ways to make this year’s Halloween a little bit more fun. The good news is that it’s really easy to create a big a surprise with a little home baked treat. The Halloween...
Homemade Coffee Cake

Homemade Coffee Cake

It’s Like Eating a Hug When was the last time you enjoyed a homemade coffee cake? Not one that you pick up at the grocery store or deli, or that comes from an overpriced bakery and has twice as much streusel as cake. A real coffee cake that is both moist and...
Strawberry Cake

Strawberry Cake

When Life Gives You Strawberries Make Strawberry Cake If you’re a strawberry lover like I am you might find yourself buying pounds of strawberries at local famers’ markets and making a LOT strawberry shortcakes over the course of the summer.  A good...
Pizzelle Ice Cream Sandwiches

Pizzelle Ice Cream Sandwiches

As a child, pizzelles were one of those much looked forward to treats of Christmas.  My Italian grandmother would bake for days and days producing towers of neatly stacked pizzelles that we impatiently watched grow until Christmas Even when we were finally allowed to...
Oreo Cake Makes the World a Better Place

Oreo Cake Makes the World a Better Place

Why Have a Cookie When You Can Have Oreo Cake? There’s something to be said for taking things to the next level.  Whether it’s adding potato chips to your home fries to make a King Size Family breakfast, or spending two days making all of the components in...
Shelter at Home Fries

Shelter at Home Fries

Home Fries for the Home Bound There is nothing like an extended national shelter-in-place order combined with empty grocery store shelves to inspire creativity and resourcefulness in the kitchen.  Finding ourselves increasingly having to cook with what we have on...
Socially Distant S’mores Cake

Socially Distant S’mores Cake

So Good You’ll Want It All for Yourself One morning you wake up and find yourself living in the epicenter of a global pandemic with strict orders to stay home and avoid all social contact.  There are a few ways you can deal with this new reality, like spending...
Hazelnut Macarons with Nutella Ganache

Hazelnut Macarons with Nutella Ganache

I Bet You Thought Macarons Were Hard to Make Like many people, I always thought macarons were hard to make.  Anything that expensive that has to be kept refrigerated has to be difficult to make, right?  Well after obsessively watching The Great British Bake Off on...
Fort Hamilton Whiskey is the Spirit of Revolution

Fort Hamilton Whiskey is the Spirit of Revolution

Tastes Like Rebellion: Fort Hamilton Whiskey Fort Hamilton Whiskey is the first offering from Alex Clark, a Brooklyn-based entrepreneur and distiller.  Alex was kind enough to sit down for an interview with Brooklyn to the Catskills and talk about what it takes to be...