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Classic Peanut Butter Crisscross Cookies

Classic Peanut Butter Crisscross Cookies by Buck Bannister

Buck BannisterI love peanut butter. It's been one of my favorite foods/tastes/flavors since I was a kid. I'll choose a peanut butter dessert over almost any other! One of my lifelong favorite cookies are classic peanut butter cookies. I loved to come home from school and have a big peanut butter cookie and a glass of chocolate milk.…

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Malibu&reg Rum Coconut Cake

Malibu&reg Rum Coconut Cake by Buck Bannister

Buck BannisterA few years ago one of our nephews and his wife became frequent travelers to the Caribbean on cruises. In fact, they even got married while on a cruise. For Christmas one year they brought me and Michael wonderful rum cakes from Tortuga. One of them was a banana flavor and was scrumptious. I became hooked on Caribbean…

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Sopapillas

Sopapillas by Buck Bannister

SandraI'd like to introduce a new guest blogger here at Sugar Pies. My dear friend and "wondertwin" Sandra Senecal has kindly agreed to post some of her favorite recipes from time to time. I'm sure you'll love her great recipes. To kick things off she's decided to post her recipe for Sopapillas.Sopapillas are a fried dough Mexican…

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Mango-Orange Cupcakes with Milk Chocolate Coconut Rum Ganache

Mango-Orange Cupcakes with Milk Chocolate Coconut Rum Ganache by Buck Bannister

Buck BannisterOK, there's got to be a better name for this, but I wanted to be fancy and make sure I kept that "ganache" in there!Ganache, doesn't that sound decadent? Mama would have rolled her eyes expecting some complicated French thing with all…

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Chocolate Marble Cake

Chocolate Marble Cake by Buck Bannister

This has been a busy few days! On Saturday, Tucson held its annual Pride celebration in Reid Park. Of course, I worked the Marriage Equality USA booth for the event. It was a long and tiring day but we had loads of fun and got to share information on the fight for equal marriage and civil rights with hundreds of people. I also had a…

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Honey Pecan Chicken

Honey Pecan Chicken by Buck Bannister

I looked around for some ideas for recipes and finally cobbled together based on one I found at CDKitchen.com. I toyed with a bit to add my own spin. Hope you enjoy it!Ingredients:Directions:Marinate chicken in salt water in refrigerator for at least 45 minutes to 1 hour. Remove from refrigerator and pat dry.Preheat oven to 375°F.…

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Dark Chocolate Coconut Cookies

Dark Chocolate Coconut Cookies by Buck Bannister

Obviously I overbought when I got coconut a couple weeks ago. I’d envisioned coconut macaroons and coconut cake. The macaroons didn’t get done but the coconut cake did. Still, I have way too much coconut in the pantry.This afternoon I was trying to think of something to use up the coconut. I also had some premium 90% cocoa dark…

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Recipe Roundup #1

Recipe Roundup #1 by Buck Bannister

Coming up on Friday will be a Chocolate Marble Cheesecake I’m making for the “Wondertwins Horror Fest” on Saturday. The WHF is an annual horror movie marathon that Sandy and I started last year the week before Halloween. We love horror movies and get together for an entire day of classic horror on DVD. This year we’ll be having a…

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Chocolate Marble Cheesecake

Chocolate Marble Cheesecake by Buck Bannister

As promised, I decided to try my hand at the Chocolate Marble Cheesecake featured on the Food Network site. The recipe submitter there is Gale Gand and the end result tastes great. It’s creamy and slightly tart thanks to the sour cream.I decided to follow the recipe to a T instead of doing an adaptation which is what I’d normally do…

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Corn Muffins

Corn Muffins by Buck Bannister

Since I haven’t made any cornbread lately, I decided this afternoon to do some corn muffins using a recipe from Colonial Williamsburg. These are excellent muffins with just a bit of sweetness.Of course, I measured out all the ingredients and sifted my dry ingredients in the mixing bowl. When I reached for the eggs there were none to…

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