Category: Halloween

Chocolate Banana Peanut Butter Tea Cakes

25 January 2010

Cover these babies with a marshmallow frosting and they’d be Elvis’s favorite cupcake. As they are- as they were, I should say, as we ate every bit of these up- my morning cooking class whipped up a rich and comforting treat. Nothing much needs to be said about these. The name speaks for itself. There […]

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Some Tricks and Treats from Yesterday and The Good Home Cookbook Winner

01 November 2009

Yesterday, in a flurry, I finished Cinderella’s and Harry the Dirty Dog‘s costumes, and we headed out to meet up with the Cupcake Sisters and do a little trick-or-treating around the neighborhood. In New York one of the best ways to trick-or-treat is to be invited to a big building, and the Cupcake Sisters lived […]

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Jack-o-lantern Quesadillas and Happy Halloween!!!

31 October 2009

Happy Halloween, Little Goblins and Ghouls! We wanted to share this easy crafty quesadilla recipe that we did in cooking class the other day. This is not so much of a recipe as an inspiration. For our quesadillas, we used sweet potato puree (though, in a pinch, canned pumpkin puree would work, too), shredded Monterey […]

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Hairy Eyeballs (a.k.a. Vegan Chocolate Brownies Bites

30 October 2009

These vegan brownie bites are a clear example of how the way in which you describe a food affecting the way a food is received. Some of you maybe thinking, “Vegan brownies?” Yick. Go further: Raw brownies? How does that sound? Maybe yum, maybe not so much. If you tell your kids that these are […]

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Carrot-Apple-Ginger Spread

26 March 2009

Ok, Bunnies, with Easter coming up in a couple of weeks and Springtime celebrations going on all around, it seemed like we all needed a healthful but luscious sort of treat.  Working with the theme: eggs, fertility, growth, bunnies…ah, bunnies.  Yes. A spread that I used to eat all the time at Angelica Kitchen in […]

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