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today’s taste: coconut-covered brown butter donuts
It all started with a donut pan. Now, a donut pan is not an essential part of a kitchen; in fact, the majority of kitchens in America – the most donut-loving country in the world – probably don’t have...
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today’s taste: sea salt chocolate chip cookies
Even though we didn’t know each other as kids, the first recipe either of us remembers making is the famous Nestle Toll House chocolate chip cookie recipe. Almost anyone can recognize that classic...
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today’s taste: blackberry peach coffee cake
Today was a scary day. First of all, it’s Sunday, which means onset of the weekly Sunday scaries. If you’ve never heard the term, it refers to that sinking feeling you get every Sunday when you...
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today’s taste: chocolate cupcakes with mocha frosting
Washington D.C. is a city that takes its cupcakes very seriously. If that sounds strange to you, you’ve probably never tried to visit Georgetown Cupcake, Baked & Wired (our favorite), or another...
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today’s taste: brown butter bourbon blondies
The days leading up to a long weekend inevitably crawl by. No matter how many times we check the date on Monday, it’s still Monday, and the second hand on our watch sure isn’t going to tick any faster...
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today’s taste: blueberry lemon muffins
We thoroughly enjoyed our Labor Day (only 42 more to go) – and hope you all did too! But we would be lying if we said nothing was amiss during the delightfully long weekend. We had separation anxiety:...
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today’s taste: pumpkin pop-tarts
Quite a bit can change in two weeks – especially if those two weeks “fall” (get it?) around the last day of summer. Before we knew it, the muggy DC weather had packed its bags to head south, leaving...
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today’s taste: bavarian apple torte
Remember when we said that the pumpkin pop-tarts would be the last dessert we made in a shared kitchen? Well, we lied. In true Morgan and Emily fashion, we spent the last night before Morgan’s...
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today’s taste: eggnog layer cake
Happy holidays, readers – from California’s newest (and palest) amateur baker and blogger! Apologies for the blog lull; I know this post is long overdue. I would blame the move for the delay, but my...
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today’s taste: chocolate macadamia nut cookies
First, let’s address the elephant in the room: it has been a long time since our last post. A really long time. We could offer the usual excuses – work, grad school applications, and things like that –...
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today’s taste: chocolate chip banana bread
Readers, can you believe that it’s already fall? I know what the calendar says – and, more importantly, what the Starbucks menu says. But it’s 78 degrees today in California, and even though I’m not a...
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today’s taste: pumpkin doughnut holes
I have good news and bad news. Usually, I would like to get the bad news out of the way first, but that order won’t work here – so, good news comes first. This weekend, I made doughnuts that are truly...
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today’s taste: peanut butter breakfast balls
Although you may not know it from the HDHM blog or Instagram, I travel quite a bit for work. Consulting often means I fly to a client site on Monday and return home on Thursday. Even if my project is...
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today’s taste: crunchy gingersnaps
Gingersnaps belonged an exclusive cookie category of my childhood; along with Oreos and Nilla Wafers, they were the only storebought cookies allowed shelf space. Despite a flavor profile synonymous...
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