Recipe Skill Level: Easy to Moderate
Lemon Spice Cookies
Lemon Spice Cookies are a rolled, thinly sliced cookie recipe you can make days or even weeks in advance and bake fresh when ready to serve. Dough is wrapped in wax paper and plastic wrap or aluminum foil and refrigerated at least 12 hours to stiffen the dough for slicing. Lemon ...
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Basic Yellow Cake
A simple butter based yellow cake recipe for single and multiple layer cakes, Boston Cream Cale/Pie, and cupcakes that takes only minutes to make. Margarine can be substituted to reduce saturated fat content. Flavorings You can use any pure extract can be used for this recipe; vanilla, lemon, almond, orange. ...
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Easy Puff Pastry Chicken Pot Pie
Puff pastry chicken pot pie has large pieces of white meat chicken and lots of vegetables in a creamy white sauce without the high calorie pie crust. A light, tender puff pastry top replaces the usually double crust pie. You get: More chicken and vegetables Less calories, fat, and sodium ...
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Fresh Tomato Sauce
No jarred, canned, and very few restaurant fresh tomato sauce comes close homemade sauce made with vine ripened tomatoes from your garden or a farmers market. Easy variety of tomato (Roma, slicing, cherry, grape) has its own unique flavor. Depending on the type and ripeness of tomatoes used, the color of ...
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Easy Apple Strudel
If you are tired of store bought apple strudel that’s more pastry than apple filling try this Easy Apple Strudel recipe that is packed with fresh apples and has no preservatives or artificial ingredients. Some supermarket bakeries enhance the color of their strudels, turnovers, cakes, and pies by adding artificial colors. ...
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Thin Crust Pizza Dough
Authentic Southern Italian pizza is made with a crisp, thin, crust. In the United States it is associated with New York-style pizza. The original American pizza made by Italian immigrants in New York City. As pizza traveled west, the crust became thicker and the pizza bigger and heavier culminating in ...
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German Apple Pancake
German Apple Pancake is a simple recipe filled with fresh apples and a healthier alternative to Belgian waffles. To reduce carbohydrate calories, make this recipe for two and add lean protein like low fat yogurt, or cut into quarters and serve it for dessert. This recipe can be doubled to make 2 ...
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Buttermilk Buns and Dinner Rolls
Buttermilk gives breads, cakes, pancakes, and waffles a distinct flavor and texture. The self-life of buttermilk is about 2 weeks after opening. An alternative if you rarely use buttermilk is buttermilk powder. This short video explains the differences between fresh and powdered buttermilk. Buttermilk Buns and Dinner Rolls makes bakery quality, soft ...
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Buttermilk Chocolate Cake & Cupcakes
Buttermilk Chocolate Cake & Cupcakes is a simple recipe for a moist, tender, chocolatey buttermilk chocolate cake or cupcakes. Small cupcakes have about 120 calories per cupcake and 240 calories for large cupcakes. Nutrition values are for 1/12 of cake unfrosted. Frosting can add 200 to 300 calories. Instead of ...
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Italian-American Fried Eggplant Parmigiano
This version of Eggplant Parmigiano (aka parmigiana) is served by many Italian-American restaurants. The eggplant is breaded, fried and served with tomato sauce, melted mozzarella cheese and a side of pasta with more marinara tomato sauce. You can substitute meat, fish or poultry for the pasta to reduce total carbohydrates ...
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