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Quick and Easy Irish Bread Recipe

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You don’t need to wait for St. Patrick’s Day  to enjoy this quick and delicious Irish Bread rich in flavor and in fiber. What makes it  different from the other  breads it’s the baking powder instead of  the yeast. So in less than one hour you can have a wonderful […]

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Apple Pie with Cocoa, Amaretto and Cinnamon

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This apple pie was a classic of my childhood. My mother used to make it for special occasions. The recipe is not difficult at all, it only requires extra time for macerating the apples. So all you need is planning ahead. Once the apples are ready the recipe is quite easy […]

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Mrs. Julia Child's Fruit Cake (Sticky Cake)

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This is the perfect cake for all dry fruit and nut lovers. If you travelled to Tuscany you might have tasted a slice of “Panforte”, the delicious spicy bread. I didn’t know it was possible to recreate the flavor of that Tuscany speciality till, last X-mas, I received a delicious fruit cake […]

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Coconut Yogurt Muffins

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These muffins are deliciously spongy,  not too sweet but tasty, and last but not the least they are a healthy alternative to the regular muffins because made with olive oil and yogurt.  photos by Coco Zordan

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Linzer Torte

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The Linzer Torte is said to be the oldest-known cake in the world. For a long time a recipe from 1696 in the Vienna Stadt- und Landesbibliothek was the oldest one known. The Austrian traveller Franz Hölzlhuber in the 1850s allegedly brought the Linzer Torte to Milwaukee, whence the recipe spread over the United States. […]