Dessert First
Earlier this month was my middle kid’s seventh birthday, which is odd because I’m 100 percent certain he’s still a tiny little baby and how can a tiny little baby [...]
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02, 2022
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12, 2020
Christmas cookies, part 2
A day later, the cookies are baked!
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12, 2020
Christmas cookies part 1
For the first time in Christmas baking history, the old boy is getting his ingredients organized beforehand!
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12, 2020
Queen Elizabeth I Had Her Guests Eat Gingerbread Men That Looked Like Themselves (Cool Weird Awesome 434)
For National Cookie Day, we take a closer look at the amazing and frequently disturbing history of gingerbread, including how one of the most famous royals of all time helped bring gingerbread people into the world. Plus: a lesson in patience from a musical great who made herself into a cookie-baking expert.
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01, 2020
If You’re Making Cookies In Space, Be Patient (Cool Weird Awesome 227)
Of all the great breakthroughs we’ve made in outer space, there are none sweeter than this: last month, astronauts on the International Space Station baked chocolate chip cookies. But baking cookies in space is a little different than baking them on Earth. Plus: a new device called the Exolung can keep air flowing for virtually as long as a diver likes.
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09, 2019
Half Birthday Cake
This week I told my eight year old it was his half birthday. He immediately said, “I want a half cake... we could put half a smiley face on it.”
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11, 2018
Leftover Halloween Cookies
We’re making cookies with some of the leftover Halloween candy.
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12, 2017
I learned how to make royal icing
It's a bit runny but for a first try I'm pretty happy with it!
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01, 2017
Let’s start the bidding
It took me all morning to put the brioche together but it tastes great.
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04, 2016
OMG
If you can't spell out internet acronyms when you're making pretzels, are you even really making pretzels?