Category: Food

Cast Iron Chronicles: Lodge Mini Cake Pan

~ Carrie ~ 5 Comments
That’s right – that’s a muffin!

I ❤️ muffins, but my muffin pans were getting on my last nerve. They scratched very easily and – worse yet – the last batch of muffins stuck so badly that I tore several trying to get them out. They stuck despite the pans being non-stick (which I don’t care for, anyway) and heavily greased with coconut oil. It was like an oil slick in those muffin cups – nothing should have stuck. And to make matters worse, the pans had become nearly impossible to get completely clean. #$&*!! A new muffin pan was needed.

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Appliance Review: Oster® Digital French Door Oven

~ Carrie ~ 3 Comments

My trusty Breville toaster oven finally gave up the ghost, so I have a new toaster oven, an Oster® Digital French Door Oven. It’s not what you probably think of as a “toaster oven”, and it does a lot more than just make toast. Called a “countertop oven”, when you see it in person, you understand why: it’s roomy enough to bake large pizzas or whole chickens in. So why buy an extra-large toaster oven? Because most of what we bake could actually be done in an oven this size, rather than our full-size oven.

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Fall Flavors: Easy Baked Cardamom Doughnuts

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Cardamom seems to be one of those spices that people either love or hate; I’m of the former camp, of course. I regularly enjoy a generous amount in my coffee, and it’s flat-out fantastic in Scandinavian baked delights like Julekake (cardamom and candied fruit or citron!) and cardamom bread. In baked doughnuts, too, this spice is outstanding.

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