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King Cake with Cinnamon Filling

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 22:24:41 +0000

King Cake is a pastry filled with brown sugar cinnamon filling and decorated with colored sprinkles. The shape and colors of King Cake are symbolic of Epiphany and rooted in Christian history. The cake is popular during Mardi Gras season. Growing up in Mobile, AL, the real birthplace of Mardi Gras in the US,...

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Gingerbread Magic Cookie Bars

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 17:49:43 +0000

Gingerbread Magic Cookie Bars is a variation of the original Magic Cookie Bars. Gingersnap cookies and orange juice form a crust that’s reminiscent of gingerbread cake. The layers of coconut, white chocolate, cinnamon chips, and toffee chips add a delightful spin to the classic recipe. My introduction to Magic Cookie Bars occurred during the 1960s. ...

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Vintage Raisin Cookies

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 15:56:30 +0000

Vintage Raisin Cookies are adapted from an circa 1940’s recipe appearing in the Akron Beacon Journal. They’re soft, buttery, and laden with plumped raisins and cinnamon and brown sugar. A friend sent me a scanned image of a recipe for Raisin Cookies in an article written by Betty Harvey, Home Economics Editor of the Akron...

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Animal Crackers in my Kitchen (Recipe: Animal Cracker Orange Slice Icebox Cake)

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 15:00:11 +0000

There’s an old-fashioned fruit cake, called Orange Slice Cake, that I dearly love. It’s made with orange slice candy, dates, nuts, raisins, coconut and just enough batter to hold it all together. The cake is dense and rich, exactly the way I like cakes. I haven’t made one in years because no one in my...

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