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Baking & Desserts
 Websites presented in alphabetical order About Mardi Gras: History of King Cakes 
 This cake baked with a toy baby in it is a staple of New Orleans cuisine. King cakes are typically served from the Feast of the Epiphany (Twelfth Night) through Mardi Gras, the pre-Lenten celebration. Includes two king cake recipes. From NOLA.com. http://www.nola.com/mardigras/food/?kingcake.html Topics: Holiday Foods, Beverages, and Recipes, Holidays and Observances Individually, Snacks and Baked Goods Last updated Dec 31, 2005 Back of the Box Recipes
This commercial site is devoted to the recipes found on food packaging, initially created to spur demand for brand-name products. The site features printable recipes in a variety of categories, such as appetizers, desserts, one-dish meals, pasta, poultry, rice, beans, salads, seafood, soups, and diabetic, holiday, and low-fat dishes. Most recipes come directly from food packaging; a few are reader-suggested recipes using brand-name products. http://www.backofthebox.com/ Topics: Holiday Foods, Beverages, and Recipes, Nutrition & Food Safety, Recipes & Food Preparation Last updated Feb 18, 2004 Bread Recipes
Hundreds of bread recipes, including biscuits and rolls, muffins and scones, and ethnic and regional, unleavened, yeast, herb, diet, fruit, and holiday breads. Searchable. From Allrecipes.com. http://allrecipes.com/Recipes/Bread/ Topics: Holiday Foods, Beverages, and Recipes, Snacks and Baked Goods Last updated Feb 22, 2009 Christmas-Cookies.com
A database of nearly 400 Christmas cookie recipes. The site offers baking tips such as how to organize baking a large variety of cookies and how to store them, as well as links to sites that carry specialty baking supplies. Browsable and searchable. http://www.christmas-cookies.com/ Topics: Christmas, Holiday Foods, Beverages, and Recipes, Snacks and Baked Goods, Sweets and Sweeteners Last updated Feb 11, 2005 Diana's Desserts
San Francisco native Diana Woodall, now a resident of Sonoma, California, credits her Bay Area background with her passion for food. The site features recipes for cakes, tortes, pies, tarts, cookies, breads, pastries, cheesecakes, and candies, as well as international and holiday dessert recipes. Also includes photos, a discussion forum, baking tips, and a table of equivalent measures and weights and oven temperatures equivalents. Searchable. http://www.dianasdesserts.com Topics: Holiday Foods, Beverages, and Recipes, Recipes & Food Preparation, Snacks and Baked Goods, Sweets and Sweeteners Last updated Nov 4, 2004 Hershey's Kitchens
Contains hundreds of recipes featuring chocolate (beverages, breads, muffins, brownies, bars, cakes, desserts, and more). Includes baking hints and tips, and recipes for holidays. http://www.hersheys.com/recipes/ Topics: Herbs, Spices, Condiments, and Flavorings, Holiday Foods, Beverages, and Recipes, Recipes & Food Preparation, Snacks and Baked Goods, Sweets and Sweeteners Last updated Feb 22, 2009 Holidays: Cinco de Mayo
"For this year's Cinco de Mayo celebration, top your table with wonderful food from south of the border." The Food Network provides recipes for this Mexican celebration (to "commemorate the victory of the Mexicans over the French army in 1862") with several each for salsa, guacamole, nachos, empanadas, enchiladas, tamales, burritos, tacos, fajitas, and desserts. http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/et_hd_cinco_de_mayo/0,1972,FOOD_9833,00.html Topics: Holiday Foods, Beverages, and Recipes, Holidays and Observances Individually, Recipes & Food Preparation, Recipes by Region, Recipes by Region: United States Last updated Feb 9, 2007 Ramadan Recipes
"Menus for breaking the fast, tempting snacks and sweets, creative gifts for hosts, and more" related to Ramadan. Includes articles on culinary traditions and reminiscences, recipes for items such as orange lentil soup and semolina pistachio layer cake, and for edible gifts such as mint Turkish delight and shortbread rings. From Epicurious. http://www.epicurious.com/articlesguides/holidays/ramadan/ramadan?mbid=MSNBC_todayshow Topics: Holiday Foods, Beverages, and Recipes, Holidays and Observances Individually Last updated Nov 24, 2008 |
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