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    Shiny Cookie Icing

    Dana and I love making and decorating cookies!  Needless to say, Dana is way better at decorating the cookies than I am.  This does not prevent me from trying.  Our son has been begging us to make some fancy cookies.  So we have been testing different recipes.  We tried royal icing.  It was great tasting…

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    Royal Icing

    I love Christmas Cookies.  They are delicious and fun to eat.  My favorite cookie is the humble sugar cookie.  However, you can turn that humble cookie into an extraordinary cookie by using royal icing.  This simple icing uses meringue powder as a base to form a strong and delicate icing that can hold together a…

  • Pumpkin Pie

    Dana has been craving pumpkin pie for a couple weeks now.  I decided that I should break down and make her one.  I wanted to try something different so I found a recipe from Paula Deen that uses cream cheese instead of evaporated milk. I made it and wow! It was awesome. Paula knows what…

  • Vanilla Bean Ice Cream

    I love vanilla ice cream.  So one of the first things I did when getting my ice cream machine was to make vanilla ice cream.  I used extract and it was not the best.  So bad, that I never posted about it.  However a couple of weeks ago I got my hands on some Madagascar vanilla…