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Spiced Rum Snickerdoodles

There was a time in my life when I did not know what a Snickerdoodle was. Yes, sadly it is true. The tender, cinnamony goodness was unknown to my tastebuds.

snickerdoodles

That was remedied one weekend in 1974 when I spent the night at a friend’s house. Continue reading

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Holiday Hot Buttered Rum Pecan Pie Cheesecake…with Toffee

I have a hard time naming recipes and I don’t think I am the only one. Whereas decades ago people gave cakes imaginative names like:

  • Orange Kiss Me Cake
  • Hummingbird Cake
  • Shoofly Pie

Nowadays they are more likely to give it a string of names that describe the ingredients – a sad loss of creative verbiage in my opinion.

So, in the spirit of the Holidays which are, even as we speak, ringing the doorbell  I wanted to give this cheesecake a name that represented everything it is.

pecan-pie-cheesecake

From now on it shall be known as -

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