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Bar Cookies

S’mores Brownie Bars

August 8, 2010 48 comments
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I hope all of you had a relaxing weekend; mine was full of short road trips and a little exploring. On Friday we headed to Cleveland to check out the West Side Market which is a magnificent collection of fresh produce, meats, seafood, cheese and pastries. Unfortunately, I left my camera at home by accident, [...]

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Chocolate Caramel Shortbread Bars

June 21, 2010 51 comments
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If you follow me on Facebook, you may remember me asking what recipe you would like to see on MBA next. The choices were Chocolate Caramel Shortbread Bars or a Lemon Blueberry Loaf. After reviewing 30 comments, the Chocolate Caramel Shortbread Bars was the definite winning recipe. Don’t worry blueberry fans the Lemon Blueberry Loaf [...]

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Lemon Blueberry Crumb Bars

June 17, 2010 59 comments
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I adore blueberries…fresh out of a bowl, in my cereal and especially baked into yummy desserts…throw in some lemon and I am one happy girl. Although I love some blueberry goodness, I refuse to pay the crazy high prices I have been seeing at the market. I improvised a bit and used frozen berries in this [...]

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Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars

June 1, 2010 37 comments
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I love peanut butter and jelly, actually more like peanut butter and jam, jelly is well, too giggly for me. Any jam will do; strawberry, blackberry, raspberry…whatever we happen to have in the fridge. So, you can imagine how excited I was when I came across a recipe for Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars. My [...]

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Espresso Shortbread Brownie Bars

May 23, 2010 19 comments
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I subscribe to quite a few culinary magazines; however, I don’t have a lot of free time, so they usually get filed into magazine organizers without much use. Sure I thumb through them and randomly mark pages with post-it notes, but inevitably the sit around and collect dust. For some reason, I just can’t bring [...]

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Peanut Butter Buckeye Bars

May 9, 2010 30 comments
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I was wandering around our local farmer’s market last week when I walked past a little stand called DebHouse. I was intrigued by her perfectly folded little bags full of baked goods, but unfortunately I was short on time, so I didn’t stop. Once I got home for the evening, I did a quick search [...]

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Key Lime Pie Bars

March 28, 2010 31 comments
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I had a brilliant idea the other night, although I am sure my brilliant idea is nothing new to the culinary world…I went with it anyway and pretended that I was inventing something fabulous! My idea? Well, it was to make Key Lime Pie and incorporated coconut into the crust. See, I told ya…not very [...]

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Walnut Chocolate Blondies

March 24, 2010 26 comments
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I love grocery stores, go figure, right? I love wandering through the aisles, checking out random spices, olive oils and fun new products. However, I loathe those mid-week quick trips to pick up odds and ends and I HATE putting groceries away. Last week, I asked Brian to make a mid-week trip to pick up [...]

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St. Patrick’s Day Brownies

March 17, 2010 25 comments
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This past Saturday was my 31st birthday…I don’t really feel older, I just hear my biological clock ticking MUCH louder! I opted for a low key night out to dinner with three of my favorite people, Brian, Jamie & Brittani. It was a great way to spend my 31st and was full of food, drinks [...]

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Lemon Coconut Bars

March 15, 2010 30 comments
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Last week Mother Nature teased us Ohioans and gave us a short lived burst of spring weather. The temperatures hit the high fifties so, of course, I had to make something citrus. After browsing the web for a few minutes, I encountered a recipe that included not only citrus…but citrus and coconut. How can you [...]

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Amazing Brownies

February 15, 2010 195 comments
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I hope everyone had a great Valentine’s Day! Although most of you are probably still on a sugar buzz from all the sweet treats from your Valentine, I thought I would add another recipe that is sure to make you swoon. If you follow me on twitter, you may remember me asking for brownie recipe [...]

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Valentine’s Day Nanaimo Bars

February 10, 2010 37 comments
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Many months ago I was a Daring Baker; I loved testing my skills in the kitchen and baking along with some of the most talented bakers in the blogosphere. However, life got busy and I become a dropout, yep…a Daring Bakers dropout. I still drool over the recipes once they hit foodgawker and tastespotting, but [...]

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Chocolate Mint Brownies

December 29, 2009 20 comments
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  Well Christmas has come and gone…I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season full of family, friends, food and great memories. It is freezing here in Ohio and there is just something about cold weather that makes me crave mint…mint tea, mint bath products and mint desserts. Santa was good to me this [...]

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