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Pizza Dough (Paula Deen)
By MeanJean
Recipe courtesy Paula Deen, 2008
- 1 3/4 cup warm water
- 1 (1/4-ounce) package active dry yeast (recommended: RapidRise)
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 4 1/2 to 5 cups bread flour
- 3 tablespoons olive oil, plus more for bowl
- Cornmeal, for pan
Chocolate Peanut Butter Shortbread Squares
By MeanJean
The milk-chocolate topping of these cookies looks like the result of masterful piping, but it's actually a cinch to...
- Vegetable oil cooking spray
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/4 teaspoons coarse salt
- 8 ounces (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
- 3/4 cup packed light-brown sugar
- 12 ounces milk chocolate, melted
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
Nut Goodie Bars
By MeanJean
Tastes just like a Nut Goodie candy bar!
- 6 oz. chocolate chips
- 6 oz. butterscotch chips
- 3/4 to 1 c. peanut butter
- 1/2 c. butter
- 1/4 c. milk or cream
- 2 tbsp. vanilla pudding (not instant)
- 3 c. powdered sugar
- 1/2 tsp. maple flavoring
- 1/2 lb. Spanish peanuts
Pumpkin Doughnut Muffins
By MeanJean
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
- For the Muffins:
- 10 tablespoons (5 ounces) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/3 cup buttermilk
- 1 1/4 cups pure pumpkin puree (not pumpkin pie filling)
- 3/4 cup light brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- For the Cinnamon-Sugar Coating:
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 2 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
Hazelnut Chocolate Chip Cookies
By MeanJean
Recipe courtesy Giada De Laurentiis
- 1/2 cup old-fashioned oats
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 cup (packed) light brown sugar
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 4 ounces English toffee candy (recommended: Heath or Skor bar), finely chopped
- 1 cup hazelnuts, toasted, husked, and chopped
- 1 (12-ounce) bag semisweet chocolate chips
Pizza Dough (Tyler Florence)
By MeanJean
Recipe courtesy Tyler Florence
- 1 package active dry yeast
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 cup warm water
- 1 tablespoon kosher salt
- Extra-virgin olive oil
- 3 cups 00 flour, plus more for dusting
Conversation Heart Cookies
By MeanJean
Once iced, these cookies need to dry completely overnight before being stamped with a message for your sweetheart
- 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour, plus more for surface
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 4 ounces (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- Royal Icing
- Gel-paste food coloring (such as leaf green, lemon yellow, peach, red, rose, and violet)
Thumbprint Cookies
By MeanJean
Nut-rich...the thumb dents filled with confectioners frosting!
- 1/4 Cup Crisco
- 1/4 Cup unsalted butter
- 1/4 Cup Brown Sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 1/2 tsp. Vanilla
- 1 Cup Flour
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 3/4 cup toasted pecans, finely chopped/ground.
Pizza Dough (Emeril Lagasse)
By MeanJean
Recipe courtesy Emeril Lagasse, 2000
- 1 cup warm water, about 110 degrees F
- 1 packet dry yeast
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 1/4 cups flour (may use a little more or less)
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Royal Icing
By MeanJean
Combine confectioners' sugar and meringue powder in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment
- 2 pounds confectioners' sugar, sifted
- 10 tablespoons meringue powder
- 1 cup water