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My Sugar Obsession: Pretzels

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Where sugar met butter and lived happily ever after). Thursday, May 13, 2010. Since summer is right around the corner, and my boyfriend just LOVES these things, I thought I'd try my hand at baking some pretzels. My friend Kate kept telling me that Alton Brown’s recipe was so simple and so easy that I just HAD to make them. So, a couple months later I finally gave in and made these bad boys. I don’t think I can stress enough how easy making these were! Intense. I swear it’s a hot tub for pretzels. Oil a b...

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Fresh Fig and Almond Breakfast Cake | Joy the Baker

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Fresh Fig and Almond Breakfast Cake. August 19, 2013. This skillet cake was divided into four pieces and eaten without apology. There was coffee: two cups each. There were a few dishes in the sink: no one cared. There was that dusty morning summer sun. So good! There was that thing I didn’t want to talk about: how my cellphone landed in the toilet and died rather unceremoniously. So bad. Morning cake makes all the difference. Forever and always. The key to this breakfast cakery is the melted butter.

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Cranberry Orange & Pecan Coffee Cake | Joy the Baker

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Cranberry Orange & Pecan Coffee Cake. December 4, 2012. This weekend I found myself in one of those expensive clothing boutiques that I really… really had no business being in. You know those stores: random things cost three hundred dollars and you have no idea why. Yea…. I realized something crazy ridiculous while browsing around. The only sizes displayed on the racks were sizes 0, 2, and 4. I ran across the occasional size 6 but those were like seeing a unicorn in a coffee shop. I’m outraged and ...

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Cappuccino Cookies with espresso and white chocolate | Joy the Baker

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Cappuccino Cookies with espresso and white chocolate. February 17, 2011. I might have a problem. I check the weather. I sometimes watch the news… just for the weather. I’m obsessed with the weather. 8230; Then the day is over and all I have to show for it is smeared lipstick on my face, the wine I’m drinking in despair, my cat, and episodes of Top Chef and Teen Mom 2. See what I’m dealing with here? Who is in charge here? What am I supposed to do with that! Do you use instant espresso powder? In a medium...

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Strawberry Lattice Pie | Joy the Baker

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April 24, 2015. It’s Summer Pie Practice Season. Isn’t that what you call Spring? Beautiful strawberries are starting to hit the markets, and they’re a bit early for super sweetness, but not too early to start experimenting with pies and practicing our lattice technique! These strawberries are big, beautiful, and not quite sweet enough for pie. Not to worry… nothing a little brown sugar can’t fix right up. For more in pie adventures, see: Gluten-Free Strawberry Ginger Pie. Or Peach and Blueberry Pie.

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The Best Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies | Joy the Baker

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Most Polular Block One. The Best Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies. May 6, 2014. I grew up in a ‘because I said so’ household. 8220;Why can’t I have an Easy Bake Oven? 8221;, I no doubt said in the whiniest voice ever. “Because we have a real oven and because we said so! 8221; was likely the answer from my very reasonable parents. 8220;Why can’t I wear these filthy overalls and Nirvana inspired grunge flannel to church! 8221; Thank goodness for mothers. The answer in my opinion: HECK YES! One a scale o...

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Peanut Butter Blondies with Milk Chocolate Frosting | Joy the Baker

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Peanut Butter Blondies with Milk Chocolate Frosting. November 29, 2009. I was just about ready to throw a stick of dynamite into my kitchen and hope for the best. Instead I opted for one last shot… mostly because sticks of dynamite like the ones they have in cartoons are hard to find… maybe I’m just looking in the wrong places… whatever the case, I preheated the oven, kept my head down, and… success! Sweet, dense, chocolate and peanut butter success. Peanut Butter Blondies with Milk Chocolate Frosting.

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Double Chocolate Chip Cookies | Joy the Baker

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Double Chocolate Chip Cookies. April 16, 2014. It’s better to just let it be what it is. I had every intention of making you a fancy Easter brunch cake… the kind with lemon and lavender and swirly frosting… but as I stood in my kitchen (with exactly zero lemons), and evaluated my desire to go to the store (to buy hella lemons), I thought… can’t it just be what it is? I made these cookies for us. This is that. Softened butter is one of life’s great pleasures. I’m sure of it. This is how it all goes down.

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Cookbooks | Joy the Baker

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My second cookbook, “ Homemade Decadence. Irresistibly Sweet, Salty, Gooey, Sticky, Fluffy, Creamy, Crunchy Treats,” hits stores in October 2014. It takes an even more indulgent turn with 125 really special treats that any home cook can make. There’s even a whole brunch chapter everything’s in there. My first cookbook: “ The Joy the Baker Cookbook. 8221; is an unabashed celebration of butter, sugar, and heavy cream, published by Hyperion, 2012. Appearance, classes, and dates can be found here. Pingback: ...