Category: North America
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Healthy Dried Cherry Granola
I make homemade granola at least once a week, and was curious about the origins of this classic (yet endlessly adaptable) American breakfast cereal. After doing some digging on Wikipedia and The Nibble, a website that documents the history of nearly a thousand popular foods, I learned that granola was invented in 1863 at a…
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Devil’s Food Cake Pops
I set out to serve a slightly modified version of Smitten Kitchen’s delicious chocolate and cheesecake swirl cupcakes at a neighborhood Halloween party, but made a last-minute decision to transform the moist, fluffy cupcakes into cake pops. Coated in vanilla buttercream, with some dark chocolate cake poking through, these have a fun marbled effect –…
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Roasted Peach Sourdough Scones
These delicious breakfast pastries are a nod to two different – yet related – baking traditions: British scones and Southern biscuits. Scones vs Southern Biscuits Both are round, made with barely sweetened dough, and have origins in the UK. (Unlike the British variety, American-style scones are loaded with sugar and cut into wedges.) As usual,…
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