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Chocolate Charlotte with Rum

Valentine’s Day is approaching fast. When I was younger, I expected from my boyfriend the full package; flowers, gift, card and of course a romantic night out for dinner. As I was growing up, I realized that this day is a little bit overestimated. The florists make special flower compositions for the day, which charge...

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Quick Fudge Cupcakes

  By now you’ve already known that I have a picky son. The only thing he doesn’t question is sweets and more particularly chocolate. This is not a surprise to me, as I am a well known chocoholic. In our home there is always a variety of chocolate bars, plus chocolate truffles, etc. I try...

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Saint Basil’s Pie (Vasilopita )

First of all I would like to wish to all of you my friends a Very Happy and Loving New Year. I hope that 2011 really good things will happen to your lives this coming year. Ok, let’s talk a little tradition here. In Greece we, Christian Orthodox, have the custom of Vasilopita. Just after...

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Melomakarona Part 2

Christmas has passed. I am sure you all had a great time with your families or friends. But don’t get sad, we have New Year’s Eve still coming. It is a big celebration as well. I know that some of you may have had all their share on cookies, but I promised to give you a...

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Melomakarona (Greek Christmas Cookies) Part 1

Ok, I am sure you noticed the part 1 in my title. This is because I am going to give you two recipes for melomakarona. One by Stelios Parliaros and one by Simone Kafiris. I told you before how much I admire Stelios Parliaros, not only because he is a great pastry chef, but also...

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Gefüllte Halbmöndchen

I don’t even dream of pronouncing this. But it is translated as Stuffed Crescents. I’ll stick to the translation which is more familiar to me. Now, I wanted to do something for Joanne’s Regional Recipes  having as a guest country Germany. I knew I had somewhere the recipe of these cookies, so I started searching....

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Sourotos Baklavas (Family’s Baklava Recipe) and an Award

Before I tell you all about baklava I would like to take a moment and thank two very kind blog friends Karishma and Louanne for giving me the award. Karishma lives in Southern India and has a beautiful blog calledEffortless Cooking.Easy Baking and Louanne lives in of the United States and her lovely blog is...

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Extremely Easy Chocolate Cake

Ok guys if this isn’t an easy cake, I don’t know which is. I came upon this recipe at King Arthur’s Baking Banter blog and when I saw the recipe, I thought that this is impossible. I have baked many cakes in my life; chocolate cakes, lemon cakes, orange cakes, yogurt cakes, banana cakes you...

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Bougatsinia (Small Greek Sweet Cream Pies)

Now these are many adjectives don’t you think? But I couldn’t find a smaller English title for these sweets. Bougatsa is a sweet cream pie that comes from Macedonia, the Northern area of Greece. In this country we have small shops that sell spinach pies, cheese pies, sandwiches, apple pies etc for a quick snack....

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Yogurt Tart

I am sure you all have found yourself under a situation where friends are about to arrive unexpectedly. Either because they just happened to be in the neiborhood and thought to drop by and say hi, or because they called and one of the members of your family including you, had the sudden idea that...