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Peach crumb-top bars.

Here’s a wonderful summer dessert, great for a crowd for your July 4 bash. This crumb-topped peach streusel bar is buttery, easy and stores beautifully. A real winner! Get the recipe!

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1-2-3-4 Cake recipe

1-2-3-4 Cake.

Ever heard of 1-2-3-4 Cake? Yeah, me neither. But it’s the formula for the most fundamental, essential, delicious cake. Even if you don’t self-identify as a baker, you can whip this cake up and impress everyone you know.

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heart-shaped chocolate orange shortbread cookie recipe

Chocolate orange shortbread hearts.

Baking something nice for your sweetheart for Valentine’s Day? Here’s the thing: Simple shortbread cookies kissed with chocolate and orange … heart-shaped, no less! Get the recipe for Chocolate Orange Shortbread Hearts on writes4food.com.

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cut out butter cookies with sparkling sugar

Pretty fall cut out cookies.

Thanks to comfortable, albeit dry, weather over the past five weeks or so, fall leaf color around here is amazing. The maples are especially glorious. So naturally they prompted me to bake these: beautiful fall cut …

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4 ingredient almond shortbread cookie recipe

4-ingredient almond shortbread cookies.

These 4-Ingredient Almond Shortbread Cookies are stupid easy and ridiculously delicious. Not too sweet and perfect with coffee. Old-fashioned and totally modern. You probably have all the ingredients on hand. Get the recipe on writes4food.com!

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Christmas cookie palooza: Orange butter cookies, two ways.

So here you go: The last installment of 2017’s edition of Christmas Cooke Palooza: Grandma’s Frosted Lemon Cookie recipe reimagined with orange flavoring and chocolate. Make ’em either way: Orange Kiss Cookies or Glazed Orange Cookies. Happy holidays, folks! As a thank-you for your friendship, here’s a bonus for you: Between now and midnight, December 1, hop over to writes4food.com, comment on one of the Christmas Cookie Palooza recipes, and you’ll be entered into a drawing to win a copy of The Findlay Market Cookbook. Cheers! Bryn

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Christmas cookie palooza: Salty Marcona almond cookies.

These easy almond cookies are big on flavor, thanks to a salty Marcona almond decorating each one. This is one of my Grandma Dorothy’s old recipes, and its light texture and buttery-almond flavor is perfect for your Christmas cookie assortment. Get the recipe on writes4food.com.

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The Dorothy Project: Poppy seed cake.

Welcome to installment No. 1 of The Dorothy Project, in which I’ll cook my way through many of the recipes in my grandma’s old recipe file. First up: one of my favorite desserts from growing up. I loved poppy seed cake so much it was the top layer of our wedding cake. Get my grandma’s old-fashioned recipe on writes4food.com — it’s really easy!

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