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Holiday sweets

Banana bread (it's a cake) with cachew nuts and chocolate morsels

Banana bread with chocolate chips and nuts

Got overripe bananas? Mash them and bake them into this banana bread (it's really a cake) that’s ultra moist and chock-full of chocolate chips and nuts. Enjoy for …

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Tarte Tatin topped with whipped cream

Tarte Tatin (upside-down apple tart)

Easy. Scrumptious. Beautiful. Making tarte Tatin requires no special equipment. Just a frying pan that can go into the oven (meaning, no plastic parts) — a cast iron pan …

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Cookies and cream polvoron with crushed Oreos and cocoa powder

Cookies and cream polvoron

To the basic polvoron ingredients, crushed Oreo cookies and cocoa powder are added. Cookies and cream polvoron will make a lovely food gift to loved ones, friends and …

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Almond polvoron (gluten-free)

Almond and pecan polvoron

Traditional Filipino polvoron is a pressed no-bake cookie made with toasted flour, powdered milk, sugar and melted butter. Use almond flour or crushed nuts to give it a …

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Strawberry Panna Cotta

Strawberry panna cotta

Panna cotta is Italian for “cooked cream” so, as you may have guessed at this point, it is an Italian dessert.

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A slice of pecan tart

Pecan tart

What are the characteristics of a good pecan tart? Crisp top, flaky crust and soft filling. It’s all those lovely contrasts that make it so wonderful.

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Sliced Lemon Blueberry Streusel Cake

Lemon blueberry streusel cake

A whiff of bright citrusy aroma and a subtle tang makes the sweet-tart blueberry flavor even more pronounced in this lemon blueberry streusel cake.

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