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Pies and Puggles

Pies and Puggles

Taking delight in the day-to-day.

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Beekman 1802 Cinnamon Bun Bundt Cake

October 14, 2013 - Ali Burtt Leave a comment

These days it’s pretty rare for me to cook from a cookbook. There are tons of great food blogs out there and with more than 550 recipes pinned to my Treats board, baking from a book rarely enters my mind. I do use my Joy of Cooking and America’s Test Kitchen cookbooks on a regularRead more

Posted in baking, beekman 1802, cake, cinnamon, dessert, food

Autumn Baking: Salted Caramel Butter Bars

September 30, 2013 - Ali Burtt Leave a comment

I think I finally cracked the caramel code. After successfully making caramel from scratch four times, I now have the recipe memorized and the technique down. Let’s just not talk about the two times I burned the dickens out of the sugar or nearly set the house on fire when the cream boiled over, mmm-kay?Read more

Posted in autumn baking, bars, caramel, dessert

Autumn Baking: Pumpkin Spice Doughnuts with Maple Glaze

September 25, 2013 - Ali Burtt Leave a comment

The temperature was 45 degrees this morning when Chester and I walked Doug to the train station. I had to put on a sweater! I think autumn is officially here. And with autumn comes pumpkin recipes! It’s a little hard for me to want pumpkin in the middle of summer. With the cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves andRead more

Posted in breakfast, dessert, donuts, doughnuts, food

Autumn Baking: Carmelitas

September 16, 2013 - Ali Burtt Leave a comment

For the past three years, there has been a woman at our local farmer’s market who made these bar cookies called “Carmelitas”. Unfortunately this year she didn’t return to the market so I have been missing what I have often described to friends as the best cookie I’ve ever had. I resisted looking for aRead more

Posted in caramel, dessert, food

Easy Cake Mix Peach Cobbler

August 8, 2013 - Ali Burtt Leave a comment

What does an inveterate baker do when life hands her five peaches that need to be used like NOW and half a box of cake mix? Well, she makes peach cobbler. Only because she never uses cake mix, she’s not quite sure it will work. #spoileralert #itdid What happened was that I saw this yummyRead more

Posted in cobbler, dessert, food, peach

Homemade Nutella Pop Tarts

July 30, 2013 - Ali Burtt Leave a comment

Last Friday, Doug had the day off so we hopped in the car and drove into downtown Washington, DC to have lunch and stop in at an art gallery. After wandering up and down 8th Street, we settled on Ted’s Bulletin as a likely-looking place, primarily for the all day breakfast and homemade pop tartsRead more

Posted in baking, breakfast, cooking, dessert, food

Grown-Up Cake Batter Milkshakes

July 24, 2013 - Ali Burtt Leave a comment

On Monday night, Doug and I went to a feast held at our local Turkish mosque to break the evening fast since it’s Ramadan. We’re Christian, but our pastor has befriended the local imam in the spirit of interfaith dialogue and so we were invited to observe evening prayers and enjoy a meal with them.Read more

Posted in dessert, drinks, food, milkshake

S’mores Cupcakes

February 27, 2013 - Ali Burtt Leave a comment

Last weekend I made marshmallows. It started as these things usually start – with Pinterest. I found this pin for bourbon-flavored marshmallows, and upon discovering that I had all the ingredients to make said marshmallows, five hours later we were eating marshmallows. There’s only one problem: we don’t really like marshmallows. I mean, we do,Read more

Posted in chocolate, cupcakes, dessert, food, recipes, s'mores

Salted caramel six layer chocolate birthday cake

November 19, 2012 - Ali Burtt Leave a comment

I was cruising Pinterest a few weeks ago while Doug was sitting next to me on the sofa. When I came to this Salted Caramel Six Layer Chocolate Cake, he said, “Um, could that be my birthday cake?” Why of course, darling! So last week I acquired some delicious semi-sweet Scharffenberger chocolate, a whole heck of aRead more

Posted in baking, baking soda, cake, caramel, chocolate, dessert, food

Mini Pumpkin Whoopie Pies with Brown Butter Frosting Filling

November 13, 2012 - Ali Burtt Leave a comment

I wasn’t even going to blog this recipe for pumpkin cookies with brown butter frosting. I’d seen it repeated over and over by different bloggers on my blog feeds and on Pinterest and so I was just going to make the cookies I needed for a church function tonight and go on about my day. ThenRead more

Posted in baking, dessert, food, pumpkin, whoopie pies

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