Ok, I must admit when I first got asked to make a manger cake, I didn’t know what a manger was. In case you hadn’t figured out from all the Hanukkah posts…I’m Jewish. So, this is what I thought a manger was: Turns out that’s a manger scene. I was all set to make the [...]
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There’s been a frenzy of baking in the land of Simmiecakes. You know, some traditional Christmas baked goods. Except not really.
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Make a delicious trifle. Sometimes you have dreams of making an adorable igloo cake complete with penguins and possibly a cute little polar bear. Then you get this: But instead of fretting of your inability to gauge if a cake is actually done even though you stuck it with a cake tester like five times [...]
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Right, so I meant to post this a few days ago when it was actually Hanukkah and still kind of relevant. But then a bit of cold, two feet of snow, and the second season of Mad Men got in the way. It happens. But anyways. Doughnuts. Or donuts. I thought they were hard to [...]
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Now what’s Hanukkah without some good old fashioned potato latkes? Nothing like taking some grated potato, mixing it with a few simple ingredients, and frying them in a whole lotta oil. Which is exactly what we did. I have to admit, I’m not the biggest latke fan. It’s something to do with the fried-surface-area to [...]
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We’re four nights in, but Happy Hanukkah! Been eating some latkes? Some doughnuts? How about a little dreidel action? No? Well, you’re missing out. Betsy and I had a little Hanukkah shindig the other day. We got a bunch of friends together, had some food, had some drink, had some good company and a good [...]
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Ok, I know. No posts for a few weeks and then I follow up a roasted vegetable post with another vegetable post? What am I thinking? Well, probably not much. Except these vegetables are FRIED. That’s right, dipped in batter and thrown into a piping hot pan of oil. Yum! I’m not sure what made [...]
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