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Pumpkin Spice Latte Snack Cake

Pumpkin Spice Latte Snack Cake
Pumpkin Spice Latte Snack Cake

I wrote this post as part of the Plugrá Butter Brigade. Thanks, Plugrá, for sponsoring this post and for making my favorite butter!

So before we get into this post and I get angry emails, let me just note that this cake involves no latte. I called it a Pumpkin Spice Latte Snack Cake because (a) I want to steal Starbucks’ excellent SEO and (B) it reminds me of a Pumpkin Spice Latte: the pumpkin spice, the caramel drizzle, the full 12 months I waited to consume it again without being weird. But there’s no coffee in it. Sorry if that’s misleading. But obviously not that sorry, or I would’ve changed it.

ANYWAY IT’S FALL.

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Lemon Shortbread Crumble Bars: The ULTIMATE Lemon Lover’s Dessert!

Lemon Shortbread Crumble Bars: The ULTIMATE Lemon Lover's Dessert!
Lemon Shortbread Crumble Bars: The ULTIMATE Lemon Lover’s Dessert!

I wrote this post as part of the Plugrá Butter Brigade. Thanks, Plugrá, for sponsoring this post and for making my favorite butter!

Do you guys brush your dog’s teeth? And if so, when? When the crap do you do that? Just to be clear, this isn’t a rhetorical question. I need an answer.

And to be clearer, I want you to respond, I know, right? I KNOW. When do people do things like that? and not, I do it twice a day: in the morning right after churning my butter and puréeing my organic baby food for the day, and in the evening right before I settle in to hand-weave baskets for my Etsy shop.

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Lemon Blueberry Fluff Bars

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Lemon Blueberry Fluff Bars
Lemon Blueberry Fluff Bars

Home Ec. messed me all up. Do you remember Home Economics class? Where you learned to wash dishes and bake cookies and parent an egg-with-a-face-drawn-on for a week? The teacher didn’t realize that egg babies are easily replaced after regrettable incidents on the bus. Ahem.

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Coconut Cheesecake Breakfast Braid

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Coconut Cheesecake Breakfast Braid
Coconut Cheesecake Breakfast Braid

So many holiday mornings of my childhood were spent climbing into the car with my dad to drive over to the French Bakery. I think it had an actual name other than “French Bakery,” but that’s all we ever called it. We drove down Sharon Amity Road and turned right onto Albemarle. From there it was a short trek to the little strip of shops out in front of Eastland Mall where the bakery entrance was situated under a big arch. As soon as we walked in I was transported to France.

Really, I had never been to France and didn’t know much about it. But Elliott Erwitt’s iconic print, Provence 1955, hung on the wall and I knew that was quite French. Just look at the bicycle! The baguettes! The beret! And the ethereal perfume of freshly baked pastries — not just any pastries, but the ones with the dark golden sweet crunch on the outside and perfect flaky layers on the inside — was undoubtedly French! So what I mean to say is, I was transported to the France of my imagination.

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Lemon Blueberry Shortbread Cheesecake Dip

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Lemon Blueberry Shortbread Cheesecake Dip Lemon Blueberry Shortbread Cheesecake Dip

We need to talk about Scattergories and Dessert Dip.

First off, Scattergories. I invited some friends over for a board game brunch to try out party food ideas with the bajillion (roughly) new Town House cracker varieties and we played Scattergories, one of my favorite games. You roll a letter and then have to come up with words that start with that letter for each prompt on your list. The prompts are things like sports teams or things you put in the refrigerator. I’m usually great at it, but have you ever rolled an I? I thought J was the hardest letter, but I gave it a run for its money. About a minute into the round, someone paused and announced, “There are no words that start with I.” Perhaps that’s a touch hyperbolic, but at that moment, I was tempted to agree.

Also, don’t think for one second that you’re the only clever cookie writing down ascot for things you wear that start with “A.” Because every single person wrote down ascot. How does that happen? How is ascot still part of our vernacular?

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