For years, I made this special treat for my great-niece and great-nephew, my sister Leslie’s grandkids, for Thanksgiving when they came to LA. We cooked up the syrup and constructed this delicious baklava together. This recipe calls for regular sugar, but I have added my tried and true honey and maple sugar ingredients in parentheses…
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Perfect Holiday Dessert: Chocolate Eclair Cake
This is one of those recipes that deserves a repost. Here it is. Let me know if you try it. I would love to hear how it worked for you. This recipe comes from America’s Test Kitchen, and even after I modified it to use agave syrup rather than refined sugar, it is still fantastic….
5-Star Recipe for Healthier Chocolate Cupcakes
A while back, daughter Liz shared a recipe that substituted 15 ounces of canned pumpkin puree for all the wet ingredients required in an 18.25 oz. chocolate cake mix. According to the reviews, the pumpkin produced delicious low-fat chocolate cupcakes or cookies. The only problem was that Ray and I don’t eat refined sugar so…
5 Star Recipe for Orange Cranberry Pecan Muffins
I love collecting recipes and this one came from a recipe box I bought at an estate sale several years ago. The box is made up of two long file drawers in a small oak cabinet and each drawer is crammed full of the owner’s favorite recipes clipped from newspapers or magazines, along with hand-written…
20 Minutes a Day 