tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78652621695247563532011-11-27T18:26:01.990-06:00Twins from Chicago with a passion for food.Healthy Diariesnoreply@blogger.comBlogger681100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7865262169524756353.post-29395645169652248482010-02-05T07:16:00.008-06:002010-02-05T11:16:25.460-06:00

Good news! If you are a returning visitor to TheArtofTwoTarts, please notice that we have moved up in the world. That’s right, we're now on www.theartoftwotarts.com/! Hope to see you there!

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These are seriously the most sinful things we have created yet. Blueberry Cheesecake Bars with an Oatmeal Cookie Crust and Crumb Topping. WOW. Now that's a mouthful! Lisa went ahead and created these up herself this past weekend. She put these together using her most favorite flavors and created this fruity, chewy, creamy, sweet, tart, and buttery treat. This recipe is definitely one that you

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We LOVE making risotto. We make it once every 1-2 weeks. What we love so much about risotto, is that you can put so many different things in it. We've made risotto with just about every single vegetable! We have always wanted to make it with chicken and boy are we glad that we finally did. This risotto is defintely on our top 5 list. It is VERY good. You have both your meat and veggies in this

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Are you guys tired of your same old broccoli recipes? Will you only eat these little green trees if they are covered in cheese? Well, we hate to break it to you, try not to cry, but you might as well skip the broccoli and eat just the cheese. Our mom has been making this recipe since we were little. Since day one we have loved it and we hope (know) you will too! Here is a delicious way to eat

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Another birthday!! These few months ahead are going to be really busy for us! We have 9 family birthdays from January to April! CRAZY! Up until last week, we had only made birthday cakes for family members. Last month, our good friend Sarah asked if we would make a birthday cake for her birthday party in January. We of course said yes and began creating this cake! We truly had too much fun

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It's hard for us to believe that our oldest niece turned 12 years old today! Us being the youngest in our family, we remember people telling us, "Oh my God, I remember when you guys were born" or "Wow, you guys have grown up!" Well, I guess this time we are the ones saying those things. We can't believe how much our niece has grown up! We can remember 12 years ago, we were in the 7th grade, we

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I don't know if it's just us, but we have been going crazy for tart frozen yogurt since this past summer. We know on the west coast, everyone is crazy about Pinkberry but here in Chicago, we have Berrychill, Red Mango, and Yogenfruz. Tart frozen yogurt is something where the first time you try it, you're not crazy about it. We think because most people don't expect the tartness at first, but

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Tuesday or Thursday nights are when we can get most of our cooking done and take lots of pictures for our recipes. Those nights, our men work until 9pm. Maria's husband and Lisa's fiancee have very similar work schedules which is great! Even though we don't live in the same house anymore, we still find time to cook\bake together and have fun with eachother.We love listening to music when we cook

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Pasta is pretty straight forward. Flour and eggs, mixed, rolled, cut and boiled. Many people can be intimidated when it comes to making pasta. Some may think that it's something that they cannot pull off and won't give it a try. We want people to realize how easy and FUN it is to make fresh pasta. The end result is so rewarding and comforting. Even though we always use store bought pasta when

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So, after the "12 Days of Baking" we thought we'd give you a savory recipe! These twists are so delicious, your guests will think you slaved away for hours to make them! They are so easy to make and are VERY good! The dough is buttery and flakey, you get tangyness from the sauce, and saltyness from the cheese! These twists are perfect for partys. People can hold their drink in one hand and have

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On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me.. These wonderful Chocolate-Peppermint Cupcakes, topped with Eggnog Frosting! What a way to end our 12 days of Christmas. We wanted to end it with a bang, and after MUCH thought we came up with this combination. Here are some pictures of the step by step processes. We came across a recipe for chocolate cake from Ina Garten a few years

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The 12 Days of Christmas Baking On the 11th Day of Christmas my true love gave to me.. My families traditional Italian Christmas cookies, Scalette. These cookies are very important to our family. A Christmas without Scalette is no Christmas at all. This recipe has been handed down several generations. We love Scalette because they are fun to make and you can top them with anything you want!

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The 12 Days of Christmas Baking On the 10th Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me..Some Spicy & Chewy Chocolate Ginger Cookies! We love ginger cookies, but what could be better than ginger and chocolate together! This recipe is from Martha Stewart and we have to say we love her and all of her cookies! If you don't like your ginger cookies, very spicy, then we would tone down the spices a

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The 12 Days of Christmas Baking On the 9th Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me.. Some Chocolatey and Refreshing Peppermint Bark! Are you one of those people, that when you see desserts with peppermint you move on to the next dessert?? Well that was us, up until now! Before this Christmas, we never had peppermint bark and never really cared for anything flavored with peppermint. We had a

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The 12 Days of Christmas Baking On the 8th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...All sorts of Pretzel Rings filled with all kinds of love!There were several occasions were we have received chocolate filled pretzel rings during the holidays. Even though we would always come across them, we never had the urge to make them ourselves. We have to admit, when we would receive them we wouldn't

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The 12 days of Christmas Baking On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me these wonderful holiday biscotti! These biscotti are filled with pistachios and dried cranberries and dipped in white chocolate. They are very simple to make and the flavor combinations are very good! You get some crunch and salty-ness from the pistachios and some sweetness from the chewy dried cranberries.

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The 12 Days of Christmas Baking On the 6th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me These little puffs of joy! Do you guys ever do things in life that you know can get you in DEEP trouble for but you still do them anyways because some things are just worth the risk?? Well, for us, bomboloni's we're that guilty pleasure. It all started 4 years ago in Italy. You see, our parents are from a

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The 12 Days of Christmas Baking If your looking to impress your guest on Christmas, this is the recipe to make! This recipe is very simple and the only part you have to bake is the crust for 8 minutes! We came across this tart on www.rubbermecker.typepad.com. The minute we saw it we knew we HAD to make it! We've never used gingersnap cookies to make a crust, so we were very excited to try

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The 12 Days of Christmas Baking On the 4th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me....... These amazingly good Tart Lemon Cream Cheese Cookies! Wow that sounds like a tongue twister! These cookies are great because they give you a break from all the chocolate during the holidays! (Not that there is anything wrong with chocolate, its just good to mix it up a little bit!) The lemon and cream

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The 12 Days of Christmas Baking On the 3rd day of Christmas, my true love gave to me A lot of ooey gooey peanut butter fudge!! This recipe is truly a perfect Christmas fudge. We don't know why, but the only time we make peanut butter desserts is usually around christmas time! What we love MOST about this recipe is that the fudge has graham cracker crumbs in it. It gives the fudge really nice

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The 12 Days of Christmas Baking On the second day of Christmas, my true love gave to me These TO DIE FOR Oreo Truffles. Ok , if there is one recipe that is a GUARANTEE, this is it! It is so simple and they are ridiculously, amazingly, good! Oreo truffles are a decadent, rich, delicious dessert . If you haven't tried this recipe yet, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR??!" There are several reasons why

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The 12 Days of Christmas Baking That's right, 12 days in a row, one recipe per day. We thought about this for a bit, since it would definitely be quite a bit of work to bake, photograph and blog all these recipes. We've been trying to think of ways to get many recipes posted within a short period of time, so we decided, since it's the holidays, to blog about our favorite old and new recipes!

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We know that during the holidays a lot of us bake cookies, cakes, pies and all that yummy goodness, so we thought it would be a neat idea to have the 12 Days of Baking. Christmas is definitely the time of the year where we bake the most! We have so many favorite christmas baking recipes that we love and wanted to share them with you. Day 1 will be on Thursday December 10. Starting then, each

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Do you guys ever get a recipe that you still get asked for years later? We've found this recipe about 4-5 years ago and we still get asked for the recipe till this day. I guess they are that good! This is kind of a bittersweet story....It all started about 4 or 5 years ago. We were looking for a cookie recipe that had nutella in them. We came across this recipe on a girl's blog, way before we

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If a cookie were to ever initiate world peace it would have to be these. Who can resist the power of the cookie? We know we can’t. Especially one that was originated by the man described as the “Picasso of Pastries”, the master himself, Pierre Hermé.These are just about the best chocolate cookies we've ever tasted and we don't really like chocolate cookies. We've seen mention of Dorie Greenspan's

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There aren't many things in this world that can get us upset. We're pretty easy going but there are a handfull of things that just annoy us. One of them is ordering tiramisu at a restaurant and its filled with whipped cream... yuck! just yuck! Tiramisu is a very popular italian dessert. When it's made the right way it can be soooo yummy! We have tried many recipes and this is our favorite.

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We are back to baking birthday cakes. We haven't made a birthday cake for a few months, and we have to say this one came out looking really neat! Before we make any birthday cake we always ask the birthday boy/girl what they would like on their cakes. Its fun getting ideas from our nieces and nephews, we are always surprised at their ideas. This cake is for our nephew Freddie, right now he is

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One summer when we were in Italy one of our neighbors had us over for lunch. For dessert, she had this REALLY good apple cake that was so moist and yummy. Over the years, we've tried several different recipes. Some we're good but they were just different. We came across this recipe on Deb's blog Smitten Kitchen. We are so glad that we tried her recipe because this is exactly what we've been

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So we know that we've been MIA for a few months. Well, we're glad to say that we're back on track! Things got pretty crazy for a while. First, Lisa was in Italy for all of August. Second, Maria got married in September. Third, we both were really busy fixing up our homes. We hope that we can stay on track from this point on! We missed blogging. These pumpkin whoopie pies are soo delicious!

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This recipe is our FAVORITE cake recipe! Whether you're a chocolate lover or not, you'll love this cake! We came across this recipe when our cousin in Italy made something very similar to it. Over the years we've modified it to our liking and truly created something so good! It consists of a moist chocolate cake with a filling and frosting that is made of only whipping cream and nutella. It's

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We truly believe that the simplest dishes are usually the most satisfying. Sometimes you just don't feel like slaving over the stove for 2-3 horus to make dinner and would rather whip something up really fast that still tastes great! We have grown up eating this pasta dish. Whenever our mom had a busy day around the house she would make this for dinner because it was so simple and everyone loved

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This week's Tuesdays with Dorie (TWD) recipe was chosen by Carol of mix, mix... stir, stir: Perfect Party Cake. This cake consists of a light and fluffy lemon cake filled with a lemon buttercream and raspberry preserve. Dorie gives you the option of personalizing it to your own taste. If you aren't crazy about buttercream you can just use sweetened whipped cream instead. If you don't like

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For about a year we've made Ina Garten's Summer Fruit Crostata. It is the BEST dessert ever. Everytime we make it we get rave reviews! The reason why we have yet to post it is because it doesnt last long enough to get a picture! The recipe calls for peaches, plums and blueberries. We've made it with just peaches and blueberries and it's the best! We love that fruit combination! When Lisa came

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Do you guys like our new blog design?! We are so excited to have it up and couldn't be happier thanks to Samantha at Temptation Designs. She was so great to work with and was concerned about how we wanted our blog to look! We definitely would reccomend working with her. Shes great!This week's TWD recipe, Coconut Roasted Pineapple Dacquoise, was chosen by Andrea. You can find the recipe on her

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Have any of you ever had Stella D'oro anisette sponge biscotto?? We grew up eating those since we can remember! We just started eating them again recently and remembered why we loved these so much! Wanna know what's even better? They only have 90 calories for 2 cookies!! =)We wanted to see if we could come up with something similar to those cookies on our own. After giving it a few times and

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This week's Tuesdays with Dorie (TWD) recipe was chosen by Tommi of Brown Interior: Honey-Peach Ice Cream. It's peachy, creamy, and the honey gives it a smoothness and flavor that totally set it apart from all other ice creams. This was very easy to make! You just boil your milk mixture and your honey/peach mixture, then blend it all together in a blender and wait for it to chill. Then you put it

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We love making risottos! We don't think people realize how easy they are so make! We have made several different kinds of risottos, but never one with just spinach. We came across this one online. Here is the recipe. It is super simple to make. You can have it done from start to finish in 30 minutes! We had this for dinner last night, along with our boyfriends and parents. EVERYONE loved it!!

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Our nephew Frankie turned 11 last week! We can't believe how all our nieces and nephews are growing up so fast!! We can remember when frankie the day frankie was born! He was our first nephew! We used to fight over who would hold him first when he would come over! He wanted a race car theme birthday cake! We're glad how this cake turned out. We used crushed oreos for the road! Happy Birthday

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The Tuesdays with Dorie pick for this week was Parisian Apple Tartlet chosen by Jessica of My Baking Heart. This was recipe was so simple and only four ingredients were needed to make it! Don't you just love recipes like that?! Dorie suggested that you use an all butter puff pastry dough. In the past, we've only used Pepperidge Farm's frozen puff pastry dough. We learned about Dufour puff pastry

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This week's Tuesdays with Dorie selection are the Cinnamon Squares. They were chosen by Tracey of Tracey's Culinary Adventures. These squares have a thin layer of cinnamon, sugar, chocolate and espresso powder in the middle of a cinnamon cake that’s topped with a bittersweet chocolate frosting. We weren't really sure what to expect from this recipe. We like cinnamon, chocolate and espresso, just

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We've been wanting to post this recipe for a long time now. We have made this cake several times, but we never got around to taking pictures of it. This is one of our favorite cakes. Lisa found the recipe on an italian website. We both love coconut and searched long and hard for a cake that would satisfy us. We have changed things here and there every time we made this cake and now, we have a

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Over these couple years of reading food blogs, we have come across this recipe several times and it always stood out to us. It's such a beautiful dessert and we've been wanting to try it for so long.Clafouti is a french dessert with a custard-like base and fruit, most commonly cherries. The cake batter itself reminds me of crepes or pancakes, somewhat neutral in flavor. This recipe is so easy,

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We made this cake a couple weeks ago. It was our godparents, our uncle and aunt, birthdays. We told them that we would make them a cake and that's what we did! This is our go to birthday cake. It consists of an italian sponge cake filled with vanilla custard and fresh strawberries. The sponge cake is very simple. You need 6 eggs, 180 grams sugar, 180 grams of flour and a pinch of salt. All you

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We know, we know! We're a day late with this post. We've just been really busy, but we will try to get back to posting on Tuesdays! We almost skipped this recipe but then we thought, how could we skip on this recipe!! This week's Tuesdays with Dorie (TWD) recipe was chosen by Beth of Supplicious: Chipster-Topped Brownies. You can find the recipe here! These turned out really yummy! We don't

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This week's Tuesdays with Dorie (TWD) recipe was chosen by Kelly of Baking with the Boys: Fresh Mango Bread. We love mangoes and were very excited to see how this recipe would turn out. We have never baked with mangoes before!This recipe was very easy to make. It's just like any banana bread recipe. The smell of this bread as it was baking was AMAZING! It took an hour and a half to cook fully and

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Our father asked us to make a cake to give to our aunt and uncle for their birthdays. We had some nice strawberries in the fridge so we decided to go ahead with a strawberry cake. The recipe was for a 13"x9" pan but we decided to make one 9" springform pan and a little loaf pan. This pictured loaf cake was the first out of the oven. It took less time to cook since it was smaller. Lisa took

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It's our birthday! We're 24! =) We've been wanting to make these for so long, but nobody else is really a coconut fan.. We love love love coconut. We found this recipe on Elise's blog Simply Recipes. She has so many amazing recipes and her photos are great! Take a look at them! They are topped with a cream cheese frosting that has coconut mixed in. We think you could put cream cheese frosting on

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Ok we're back on track with Tuesday's with Dorie (TWD). We missed a few weeks in a row... Between Maria's wedding and both of us fixing up our new homes, it leaves little time for baking. This weeks recipe was this lemon tart. When we first read the recipe we were kind of worried... the recipe included one and a half lemons... the ENTIRE lemons! Without the seeds of course. We don't know about

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We wish we could tell you something interesting and fancy about this recipe. Like how we tried several different recipes until we found the perfect oatmeal raisin cookie, but not this time. We haven't made oatmeal raisin cookies in a long time, so we just got this recipe on the lid of a quaker oats container. We're definitely keeping this one in our recipes books and plan to make these more often

Healthy Diariesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7865262169524756353.post-2597651051695002362009-04-25T11:50:00.005-05:002009-04-25T23:26:00.372-05:00

We have been baking a lot lately... A LOT....For sure 1-2 times a week. Sometimes more... We came to the point to other day where we said, "Ok we're only gonna bake once a week." Well... Then Lisa came across this recipe. Bake or Break is one of our favorite food blogs. We have tried several of Jennifer's recipes and they ALL came out great so far! These are chocolate cupcakes with a cream cheese

Healthy Diariesnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7865262169524756353.post-86381187733848264032009-04-23T19:03:00.002-05:002009-04-25T12:13:24.485-05:00

We've came across this recipe several times for a while now. We never got a chance to making it until now and we wished we wouldn't have waited that long! We don't know many people who don't like nutella. Actually.... we know ONE person... ::cough:: ::sarah:: ::cough:: Nutella is amazing and this cake is just perfect! Its a good dessert to have after dinner and even better to have in the morning

Healthy Diariesnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7865262169524756353.post-16535174886979184512009-04-21T18:12:00.005-05:002009-04-21T18:20:53.212-05:00

We decided to make our Mom another birthday cake, since Paulie picked out the flavor of the one we made to celebrate both their birthdays on Easter.Our Mom likes pretty simple desserts so we thought a lemon yogurt cake would be perfect. It looked kinda boring when we took it out of the oven, so we decided to spruce it up a little bit!But...with all honesty it looked better than it tasted. It was

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We are always on the search for a good recipe for chocolate chip cookies. These cookies were on the thin side, but very chewy and yummy!! We added in some toffee bits to make them even better! This recipe is from Alton Brown and you can find it here.Give them a try you won't regret it!!!

Healthy Diariesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7865262169524756353.post-13478747655865572742009-04-13T21:52:00.003-05:002009-05-12T15:13:38.272-05:00

This week's Tuesdays with Dorie (TWD) recipe was chosen by Holly of Phe.MOM.enon: 15 Minute Magic: Chocolate Amaretti Torte. Aside from ground almonds, one of the main ingredients in this torte are amaretti cookies. We LOVE amaretti cookies. We have a cake that we have made several times and everybpdy always loves it. Its a cake with almonds and amaretti. We tried to recreate the cake after we

Healthy Diariesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7865262169524756353.post-92093068636991172202009-04-11T14:56:00.004-05:002009-04-25T12:13:24.485-05:00

We made this cake to celebrate our brother Paolo and our mother's bithdays! We won't be able to eat it till Easter Sunday so we can't tell you just yet how it tastes, but it sure does look YUMMY! You can find the recipe here!

Healthy Diariesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7865262169524756353.post-15679402467396342082009-04-10T23:17:00.011-05:002009-04-11T14:10:40.097-05:00

We have made these cookies so many times, and they taste better and better every time! At least we think so! They are Lemon Ricotta Cookies from Giada DeLaurentiis. The cookies come out really soft with a subtle lemon flavor and the lemon glaze gives it the pefert tart finish! You will DEFINETELY love these!You can find the recipe here!Next we have Chocolate Mascarpone Brownies. We saw these over

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This weeks Tuesday's with Dorie's (TWD) recipe was chosen by Amy of Sing for your Supper. Amy chose Banana Cream pie as you can see! This was our 3rd TWD recipe and we've liked all of them so far. We've had Banana Cream pie in the past, but we've never made it on our own. We've made many different kinds of pie, but never Banana. We made this on Friday after work and we couldn't eat it until

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When I first saw that this recipe was chosen I was SO happy. I LOVE anything with coconut!! I actually haven't baked too many goods with coconut, so I was excited to try these! Overall, I thought these cookies were pretty good. The coconut flavor was subtle, so I think that I expected these to be very coconut-y and my expectations were too high! I loved the technique of rolling out the dough in

Healthy Diariesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7865262169524756353.post-45053136584490198212009-03-26T19:22:00.005-05:002009-04-11T14:11:18.123-05:00

I got this recipe from Katie on Good Things Catered. Our friend Sarah was coming over and we cooked this for dinner for everyone. We thought it was good, but maybe next time we would use less marsala wine and maybe substitute some with chicken broth. We served it on top of whole wheat linguine! I definitely would make this dish all the time, but want to play around with it to make it perfect for

Healthy Diariesnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7865262169524756353.post-16263551878243996322009-03-25T08:14:00.005-05:002009-03-26T12:19:06.712-05:00

I usually bring a lunch to work everyday and lately i've been getting tired of the same sandwhiches or salads. I came across this recipe on Kevin's blog, Closet Cooking, the other day and decided to give it a try! I changed a few things to my preference. Kevin used cottage cheese in his recipe. I am one of the least pickiest people when it comes to food, but cottage cheese is one of the few

Healthy Diariesnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7865262169524756353.post-87733664809350101412009-03-24T00:00:00.015-05:002009-05-12T15:13:38.273-05:00

On St.Patrick's Day, the Tuesdays with Dorie (TWD) group was accepting new members! I signed up but, I'm still not sure if it's official yet, but I decided to start anyways! This is my first TWD post and i look foward to posting a new recipe every tuesday! This weeks recipe was Blueberry Crumb Cake. I enjoyed this cake a lot. Its really good to have for breakfast or even for a midday snack with

Healthy Diariesnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7865262169524756353.post-63264517445953600862009-03-21T14:31:00.002-05:002009-03-24T20:22:23.400-05:00

I've never met anyone who isn't a fan of red velvet cake. I found this recipe over at Peabody's blog and when i saw it, I couldn't believe that i'd never thought of this recipe on my own. I mean, red velvet and cheesecake?? I knew there was NO WAY this recipe couldn't be amazingly successful. I think everybody should give this a try. I made this for my sister Phyllis on her birthday. EVERYBODY

Healthy Diariesnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7865262169524756353.post-82100518886748961662009-03-19T20:10:00.003-05:002009-03-24T20:22:40.363-05:00

Zeppole are the traditional Italian Pastries that are eaten on St. Joseph's Day (Today). Every year since, I can remember, we would get theses from a bakery and eat them during the week of St. Joseph's Day. This year my sister and I wanted to make them on our own! It sounds like a lot of work, but it took us 1 hour and a half to do everything! Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Take the pata a choux

Healthy Diariesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7865262169524756353.post-63031881399687781972009-03-15T18:05:00.006-05:002009-03-24T20:22:54.095-05:00

So here it is! My first recipe of the year. I came across this recipe on the food blog, "The way the cookie crumbles." http://crumblycookie.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/snickerdoodles/. I've been a fan of Bridget's blog for a while and couldn't help myself when I came across this recipe. It's been some time since I've made snickerdoodles and the last time I made them.. well... they didn't turn out

Healthy Diariesnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7865262169524756353.post-35279721190322068652009-03-13T12:06:00.007-05:002009-04-11T14:11:30.845-05:00

This is a birthday cake that my twin sister, Maria, and i made for our niece, Izabela's birthday.She wanted to be a model on a runway! It was a chocolate cake with a french silk filling. Yummy! For about 2-3 years we have been making birthday cakes for all of our 5 siblings, 3 nephews, 3 nieces, and parents birthdays! Its a lot of work, but we love it!! Here's another pic of a cake we made for

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I've been really interested with the Daring Bakers group for sooo long! I have found many foodblogs that participate in the challenges and for so long I wanted to become apart of the family! Im so excited for what my first challenge will be! Please continue to read my blog. I know currently there are only 3 different recipes that aren't that appealing but I promise that there will be plenty to

Healthy Diariesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7865262169524756353.post-38661771917923731612008-02-20T19:40:00.001-06:002008-02-20T19:41:06.962-06:00

Ingredients:1 ½ cups Whole Wheat Pastry Flour¾ cup Flaxseed Meal¾ cup Oat Bran1 cup Brown Sugar2 tsp Baking Soda1 tsp Baking Powder½ tsp Salt2tsp Cinnamon1 ½ cups finely shredded Carrots2 peeled and shredded Apples½ cup Raisins (optional)1 cup chopped Nuts¾ cup Milk2 beaten Eggs1 tsp VanillaMix together flour, Bob's Red Mill Flaxseed Meal, oat bran, brown sugar, baking soda, baking powder, salt

Healthy Diariesnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7865262169524756353.post-84649815461370855942008-02-13T18:15:00.001-06:002009-03-24T20:22:54.096-05:00

3 cups all-purpose flour 3/4 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 cup unsalted butter, softened 1 cup sugar 1 egg, beaten 1 tablespoon milk Powdered sugar, for rolling out doughSift together flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside. Place butter and sugar in large bowl of electric stand mixer and beat until light in color. Add egg and milk and beat to combine. Put mixer on low speed,

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