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CrystallineTulip
 
Home Town: San Benito, Texas, USA
Living In: Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Member Since: Sep. 2005
Cooking Level: Beginning
Cooking Interests: Baking, Slow Cooking, Mexican, Healthy, Vegetarian, Dessert, Quick & Easy
Hobbies: Scrapbooking, Walking, Photography, Reading Books, Charity Work
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Chocolate Oil Cake
About this Cook
My favorite things to cook
I'm currently trying to collect and try out more authentic Mexican recipes. I'm hoping to surprise my husband with a great Mexican dinner one day for our date night!
My favorite family cooking traditions
I love baking Easter cookies with my dad and making Christmas dinner with the whole family.
My cooking triumphs
I got the best BBQ chicken recipe fron this site that came out excellent. My husband doesn't usually like BBQ chicken, but he cleaned his plate on this triumph!
My cooking tragedies
I remember trying to bake a chocolate cake for my husband on his birthday. Everything seemed to be fine until I started to decorate the cake. All of a sudden, as I began to frost the cake, it caved in! My husband was flattered at my attempt and the cake still tasted great, but it looked horrible! From then on, I vowed to only spruce up box cake mixes.
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Aunt Anne's Coffee Cake
This was great! I ended up changing it a bit, but the only reason I gave it 4 out of 5 stars was because I like my coffee cake thicker and it turned out pretty thin and I followed all the directions to a "t". It may have been my changes. I replaced the white sugar in the topping for 1/3 cup of Splenda brown sugar and added 2/3 cup chopped pecans. I also replaced the white sugar in the batter with 3/4 cup Splenda. I added about 3/4 cup of dried cranberries to the batter, too. My hubby loved it and he didn't feel bad about eating such a treat on a Sunday! Thank you for sharing.

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Reviewed On: Dec. 13, 2009
Cranberry Dip
Delicious! I cooked my frozen cranberries on the stove using Splenda instead of sugar and I added about 1/2 to 3/4 cup of water to the pot. They were ready in about 10 minutes. Then I added strawberry jam and walnuts to the pot and refrigerated. Turned out great! Thank you...I needed a recipe to use up my old, frozen cranberries and this one is quick and easy.

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Reviewed On: Nov. 25, 2009
Classic Peanut Butter Cookies
These are delicious! I didn't refrigerate the dough for an hour, I just placed the cookie sheets in the freezer for a few minutes before placing the cookie dough onto the sheets. I also placed the bowl of cookie dough in the fridge as the previous batch cooked. I took some others' advice and added 1/4 cup peanut butter and 1/4 cup flour. I rolled each cookie dough scoop in sugar and pressed down with a fork on top. I also had to set my stove to 325 because it runs hot...and I baked them for 7 minutes. Thank you!

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Reviewed On: Nov. 22, 2009
 
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