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Panzanella Bread Salad
Nathan HawkesNov 25, 2024
Bread salads are classy.  And easy.  You're basically building a garden salad, overloading it will croutons, and drizzling it with a dressing.  It's a great way to show off your fancy bread that you made. You can use a bread salad as a main dish salad, not just a side salad.
Look What You can Build with Banana Bread!
Dennis WeaverNov 25, 2024
But the banana bread has to be unstoppable. Here are four tips for unstoppable banana bread.  Start with very ripe bananas. Squishy ripe bananas have two to three times the flavor of ripe bananas. We let our leftover bananas get black and then freeze them. Add a teaspoon of banana flavor. It doesn’t matter how ripe the bananas are, banana flavor will make your bread or muffins a little better. We put banana flavor in our mixes. Add cinnamon chips. Get a burst of sweet cinnamon in every bite. Cinnamon chips make an amazing difference. Refrigerate your bread. Wrap your bread and refrigerate it overnight.  After chilling, the banana bread is easier to cut into nice, uniform slices, it holds together better, and just plain tastes better.
The Joy of Strawberry Whipped Cream (and cousins)
Dennis WeaverNov 25, 2024
That's a cake made with a Fudgy Baby Cakes Mix, a cream cake mix with chocolate pieces.  The frosting is Better than Buttercream Frosting mix. The roses on top are made with a pastry tip and strawberry whipped cream.  
Dennis WeaverNov 25, 2024
This frosting is different than most cream cheese frostings. It's lighter and fluffier. We'll give you the recipe. The secret is in the whipping cream. And we'll give you a couple applications. It's light enough that you can apply it with a pastry bag. You'll  see cupcakes, a layer cake and an innovative double decker. There's a link to four kinds of carrot cakes you can make with a mix. You'll learn how to make that innovative double decker cake and how to decorate with multicolored frosting, even in swirls.
How to Manage Cookie Spread from Little Cookies to Giants
Dennis WeaverNov 25, 2024
Cookie stores have popularized giant cookies, behemoth cookies four and five inches in diameter. Thank you. They're a lot of fun. But I don't want to run to town when I want one and I don't want to spend four or five dollars either.
For the love of strawberries . . .
Dennis WeaverNov 25, 2024
We love strawberries. But they don't hold up well in the oven. Still, they're an...