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Sticky Toffee Pudding

January 9, 2012
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Kate Middleton turns 30 today (January 9th) and like a good little fan girl I decided to celebrate the #1 googled person in my life by baking a decidedly British dessert, Sticky Toffee Pudding. Sticky Toffee Pudding is reportedly one of Kate’s favorite desserts. Although, given the immaculate silhouette she presents in every single item […]

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5 Year Blogiversary of ErinCooks.com

September 25, 2011
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Today marks the five year anniversary of this blog! Five years ago CK and I had just moved in together, I’d left a job I hated with every fiber of my being, and had rekindled my love of blogging (in between endless resume submissions) with a now defunct service called Vox. I’ve talked about the […]

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Day at the Beach Cupcakes

August 11, 2011
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“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco” is a famous quote attributed to Mark Twain and often bantered about in regards to the bizarre weather in my new hometown. Well it turns out that Mark Twain never said that. In fact no one really knows who first threw that little […]

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Happy Birthday Gram! A Guest Post of Sorts

June 11, 2009
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This is one of my favorite photographs of my grandmother and I. Look! It’s my natural hair color. Amazing… Anyway, today is my grandmother’s birthday. Happy Birthday Gram! Now she doesn’t own a computer and still uses a camera that holds actual film which has to be developed at the drugstore but she always takes […]

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Kickass Cupcakes

November 5, 2007

Instead of baking a cake for Chris’s birthday this year we decided to pick out some goodies from a new specialty bakery called Kickass Cupcakes that opened recently in Davis Square. We definitely made the right choice. Why bake a whole cake with one boring flavor when you can pick up a 6 pack of […]

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