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From everyday meals to special occasions, Andi's motto is: Keep it simple. Keep it fun. And, above all, keep it delicious.
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I've cooked my way through life: as a toddler, a college student, a newlywed, a mom and, now, a grandma.
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New Cookbooks, Old Cookbooks—Have Cake Recipes Changed Much Over the Years?
by AndiatBettyCrocker 4/29/2010 12:05:00 PM

   I attended a glitzy cookbook awards program last week, in Portland, during the annual conference of the International Association of Culinary Professionals. This group has been giving cookbook awards since 1986, and the awards this year...


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Tags: cakes, IACP, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, Amelia Simmons, Rose’s Heavenly Cakes, Buckeye Cookery, antique cookbooks, cookbook of the year, Rose Levy Bernabaum, Hannah Glasse, cookbook awards, a rich cake, Mothers Day, Strawberry-Rhubard Angel Cake, Honey-Rhubarb Cake, American in American: American Cookery., butter cake

Cake Love
by jillbcooks 4/21/2009 9:34:00 AM

There are few things that I love with the same burning intensity that I love cake.  One of those things is the internet.  I am rarely without my laptop, and, if my cholesterol level would allow, I would try very hard to be without cake just as rarely.  Alas, but I have found a way to have my (virtual) cake online. I have a few favorite blogs that are dedicated solely to cake.   One is called Pictures of Cake, and it charts the adventures of an ambitious ba...


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Tags: cakes, blogs, decorating

Valentine's Day
by AndiatBettyCrocker 2/14/2008 1:42:00 PM

On my way to work today I was listening to a public radio story about Saint Valentine, a holy priest of Rome. He performed wedding ceremonies for young couples in secret because Emperor Claudius II had cancelled all engagements and weddings. Claudius was having a hard time getting young men to enlist in the military and he believed it was because the men didn't want to leave their loved ones, when it fact it was due to bloody and unpopular battles. Saint Valentine was jailed for his actions and fell in love with the jailer's daughter before he was beheaded on February 14, 270 A.D. Story has it that he signed his farewell message to her: "From Your Valentine."How sw...


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Tags: baking, cakes, chocolate, Valentine's Day

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