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Earl Grey and Orange Cupcake Recipe with Dark Chocolate Frosting

earl grey cupcake recipe

 

Doesn’t Earl Grey Tea make you think of Victorian parlors, Anne Shirley reading books by the fire in her room at Windy Poplars, and Jo March scribbling away between sips from a beautiful but chipped cup? Do you think of Badger deep in his winter home in the Wind and the Willows, or Mr. Tumus and Lucy enjoying a snowy afternoon tryst in Narnia? Continue reading

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Fresh Strawberry and Cream Tart

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Strawberries.

I associate summer with the aroma of strawberries permeating every molecule of air in the house. The kitchen would be fragrant with tangy-sweet berry smells as my dad sat at the table hulling flat after flat of ripe strawberries and my mother kept an eye the shimmering garnet colored  jam as bubbles slowly rose to the surface and popped, almost in slow motion. Each pop led to a burst of the scent of fruit. Continue reading

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Sweet and Salty Brownies

I think it was almost two weeks ago that I posted a link that I’d found on the Internet to pretzel brownies. They looked really good but used a mix – which I don’t like to do. I decided to work with the recipe a bit to get it to the point it was exactly what I wanted it to be. Continue reading

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