Author Archives: Lisa

Reworking the Levain Bakery Copycat Cookie

If you don’t like this version of the Levain Copycat – try my first go ’round which seems to be quite popular. UPDATE: Even though they refused to give me the exact recipe for the Levain Bakery cookies, someone ASSURED … Continue reading

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Cake and Ice Cream…Hold the flour

Scroll all the way to the end for my white chocolate marble cake version of chocolate valentino cake! How excited were you when it was time for cake and ice cream at parties, as a kid? I know I was, … Continue reading

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Black Lace Sesame Cookies (or candy!)

I love sesame in all forms, whether it be in seeds, oils, pastes, body lotions, face masks, etc.  While mulling over whether to order General Cho’s (Tso’s..whatever) or sesame chicken from Chinese take-out the other night, I decided to go … Continue reading

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