When You Give a Girl a Marathon

Wow. Two posts in a row. I’d make some joke about this being a sign of the apocalypse, but what with that rapture thing occurring last week and all, we know that the end of the world is imminent anyway. All kidding about some crazy, religious yahoo aside, I wanted to give my loyal readers-yes, [...]

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The Great Failure of 2010

Well, as you can probably tell by now, The 25 Days of Christmas Cookies Challenge was a bust. There were a lot of things I didn’t realize going in to the challenge, that, had I known, probably would have prompted me to make it, “The 12 Days of Christmas Cookies Challenge,” or maybe even, “The [...]

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Cake-Haters Gonna Hate

As someone who would gladly bathe in Funfetti and butter cream, I find it slightly offensive when I come across someone who claims that they “don’t like cake.” Is it the amazing-ness of the butter cream, or the fact that the cake tastes like a gift from Jesus? I guess I’m just not sure what [...]

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The 25 Days of Christmas Cookies Challenge: Day 9

Tonight’s recipe is probably the simplest recipe ever. Like, if you agree to bring a dessert to your company’s holiday party and then go out the night before and get super wasted and forget your dessert obligations until like 1 am, you should just resort to this recipe. You might scorch a fingertip working with [...]

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The 25 Days of Christmas Cookies Challenge: Day 8

There are certain moments in life that call for a recipe that has the nutritional value of a stick of butter. Finding out that your high school sweetheart is a coke-dealing skeeze, realizing you have to ask your parents to spot you rent money…again, discovering that you spilled an entire bottle of windshield washer fluid [...]

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The 25 Days of Christmas Cookies Challenge: Day 7

The thought of using a candy thermometer makes me want to punch someone. In my day-to-day life, this is a non-issue because the candy I consume comes in two pound yellow bags, is shaped like an ambiguous fish, and is usually on sale at the grocery store. However, I’ve always wanted to make fudge. In [...]

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The 25 Days of Christmas Cookies Challenge: Day 6

While the point of this challenge is obviously to eat my way to a bigger cup size, I also hoped it would provide us all with some good treats to give to our friends as Christmas gifts. This recipe? Is more-than-deserving of a spot on one of your holiday cookie plates. It’s tasty, it’s fancy, [...]

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The 25 Days of Christmas Cookies Challenge: Day 5

Last night, I wanted to bake something simple. I was tired, my husband was crabby, and I had just spent 90 minutes making chicken Parmesan. So yes, in order to maintain sanity and some semblance of marital bliss, it might be more accurate to say that I needed to bake something simple. And that’s when [...]

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The 25 Days of Christmas Cookies Challenge: Day 4

I learned some very important lessons this weekend. Using dark brown sugar to make chocolate chip blondies, makes them, er…not so blond. Forgetting to grease the pan turns serving said blondies into a serious arm workout. Specifically, one that causes irreparable damage to that pan. When dark brown sugar is allowed to caramelize in the [...]

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The 25 Days of Christmas Cookies Challenge: Day 2

To be completely honest, I wasn’t too much concerned with Christmas treats until I saw Jessica’s, force-to-be-reckoned-with holiday baking list. She made me feel a little less bad about seasonal baking endeavors that could make even Martha have a holiday meltdown. And so, to honor Jessica appropriately, today’s treat is a How Sweet It Is [...]

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