Decorating Cakes: The Basics
Cardboard cake circles (available at baking supply stores and craft stores, or you can make your own: cut a circle slightly smaller than the diameter of your cake pan) Trimming the tops and bottoms off of your cake rounds cuts the "crust" off [... more]
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Cupcakes for Kids
Place cupcake liners in muffin tins and fill them 3/4 full until the batter is used up. Bake at the same temperature as the cake recipe and check after 15 minutes to see if they're done. Cheesecake recipes make luscious cupcakes with built-in ... [... more]
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Easter Breads
Whether you eat them on Good Friday or Easter morning, hot cross buns are a welcome treat. For the ambitious baker, yeasted babka dough can be rolled out very thin and filled with a cinnamon-nut mixture or chocolate filling. Roll up into a log, ... [... more]
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Easter Ham
Ham is the star at Easter dinner. Here are some tips that will help you make the most of your holiday ham. Ham is the star at Easter dinner, but cooking techniques vary widely depending on what you buy. Fresh hams take longer to cook than canned ... [... more]
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Easter Desserts
Lamb cakes are a traditional Easter centerpiece symbolizing spring and fertility. You can still find the molds in stores today. They are traditionally made with pound cake but your favorite cake mix will work just as well. Decorate with shredded ... [... more]
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Decorating Cakes: Finishing Touches
Fresh edible flowers make gorgeous and easy decorations. You can start with a frosted cake or a plain cake lightly dusted with confectioners' sugar: pile on the flowers such as sweet violets, lavender, honeysuckle, rose petals, borage, bachelor's ... [... more]
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Baking Cheesecake, Step by Step - Allrecipes
Careful baking is imperative for perfect cheesecakes: no cracking, no drying out. Professional pastry chefs bake cheesecakes in a water bath. This method bakes the cake very gently so that it does not darken, curdle, or crack. A springform pan is ... [... more]
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Asparagus Aspirations
Despite a reputation for being finicky, asparagus isn't as tricky to grow as you may think. Asparagus is one of the healthiest and tastiest veggies: A 5-ounce serving provides 60 percent of your daily needs for folic acid, a B vitamin linked to ... [... more]
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Asparagus Tips
Asparagus is one of our favorite harbingers of spring. These delectable stalks with their vivid color and delicate flavor are good hot or cold, dressed up or down. Asparagus comes in several sizes, ranging in diameter from thinner than a drinking ... [... more]
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Cupcake Gallery
Check out these creative cupcakes decorated by Allrecipes home cooks. Check out these creative cupcakes, decorated by home cooks like you. Get the recipe! Cupcakes for Kids [... more]
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Bring Spring Indoors
Cut branches of spring-flowering shrubs and trees and bring them inside to bloom. Likely candidates include cherry, crabapple, flowering dogwood, flowering quince, forsythia, honeysuckle, lilac, magnolia, pear, pussy willow, and redbud. Branches ... [... more]
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A Holiday Feast--One Meal, Two Traditions
This elegant menu works for Passover, Easter or any other time this season. Although they represent two very different events and distinct religious traditions, Passover and Easter are historically inseparable. Because of their close connection, ... [... more]
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