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Peanut Butter Blondies

I found miniature peanut butter cups awhile back at the Olde Tyme Pantry in Farmington, but only recently got around to baking with them.
I’d envisioned the miniature peanut butter cups used in blondie bars, but had never baked them before. I found a recipe online for basic blondies, substituted half whole wheat flour for the [...]

Smalltowngirl's Worst Date Ever

Online dating was a brilliant way to meet new people and explore a new city when I moved to New York. For the most part I was successful with it, but nothing in life is 100% wonderful all of the time.
This guy’s online profile talked about his love for music and the arts, but my [...]

Zucchini the Size of My Head

You think I’m kidding, but I’m not. The first zucchini from the garden this summer was pretty nearly as big as my head.
What else was there to do with this giant zucchini, then, but bake homemade half white/half wheat flour zucchini [...]

Showers of the Rainy and the Baby Varieties

One of my favorite things in the whole world is a good thunderstorm, and since I’ve been back in Missouri, there has been no shortage of good ones. Nearly every day, storms have blown through our area.
Missouri’s spring showers have been a welcome home, of sorts, after ten years away, missing the storms that Missouri [...]

St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake – Part II

Note: In case you missed it, check out my previous blog on St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake to get the backstory here.
Using a recipe I found on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s website, I baked my own Gooey Butter Cake tonight. If I was going to try this St. Louis culinary delight for the first time, [...]

St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake

When I was living in New York, I occasionally watched Cardinals games with a group of New York-based St. Louisans. On one particular occassion, I brought a friend along who was a Staten Island, NY native. A journalist with a passion for local cultures and cuisines, he asked the St. Louis crew what foods we felt [...]

Dark Chocolate Mint Bars

A typical April afternoon, today predictably brought with it Missouri showers.
The rain fell, the wind bent the trees, and from the Facebook and Twitter status messages of friends in Missouri, it sounds like Sunday afternoon naps were enjoyed all-around.
Following my own two-hour nap, I enjoyed a Missouri rib dinner with my parents and then indulged [...]

Cupcakes (a.k.a. Bet You Wish You Were at My House)

Photos and Cupcakes by Smalltowngirl

Happy Thursday night!

I’ll bet you wish you were at my house right about now…

These cupcakes are chocolate and peanut butter with homemade milk chocolate icing, topped with Reese’s Peanut Butter Chips.

(They’re really as good as they look.)

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I spent my morning in downtown Farmington, Missouri. What a delight to walk down brick [...]