I sure do like making homemade poptarts or toaster pastries or hand pies or whatever the right name is.  We call them poptarts at our house. We also say Kleenex and Scotch tape. I really should call them something else because they are nothing like the poptarts that come in a cardboard box.  Instead, they… 

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Whoo!  This week’s sweet is a mouthful: Pumpkin Crepes with Mangosteen Ricotta and a Triple Berry Brandy Reduction.  I tried to come up with a simple name for this recipe, but it’s not a simple combination of ingredients.  I made crepes, tofu ricotta with mangosteen and a berry sauce so it is really four recipes…. 

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This week’s Sweet is Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake.   I had never heard of Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake when Mark suggested it as one of this year’s Sweets. I asked Mark about it and he said his mother-in-law makes it.  While at the gym (the place where a lot of good food chatter occurs), Carrie said her mom… 

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I’m baking these yummy cookies for the Bake Sale for Japan.  Sabrina at The Tomato Tart has organized this bake sale which now includes bakers and bloggers from all over the world. All proceeds from the on-line auction of Sweet Treats will be donated to Second Harvest Japan, a food bank in Japan doing very… 

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This week’s Sweet is Chocomole, a mousse of sorts made with avocado, dates, agave nectar, raw cacao, coconut oil and vanilla.   Eating this got me thinking about the fun I had buying an avocado a couple of winters back. In January of 2009, I went to the Saturday Farmers Market in St. Petersburg, Florida. … 

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What’s a girl to do when one of her best friends is turning 40 halfway across the country and March Madness pushes airfare into the four-digit range, making it difficult to get to the party?  Ship cupcakes to her friend, that’s what! My good friend Michele turns 40 next week and today an amazing sushi… 

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