Without any flour or refined sugar, these better-for-you cookies are naturally gluten-free.
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Home Plates: Family cake recipe gets latest twist from Earl Grey tea
A Westbrook home cook combines a favorite comfort food and drink into one.
Home Plates: An Orange Rebellion (and we don’t mean the political kind)
A dedicated home cook from South Portland tries her hand at a lesser-known Greek dessert. She’s pleased.
Home Plates: A home cook and bread baker ponders if baking is art or science
Both, Lindsay Porto concludes, and her Anadama bread is delicious proof.
My mother’s Sicilian cassata cake nods to her smart frugality and love
The recipe for layered pound cake, covered with chocolate fudge, is a family favorite for the holidays.
Home Plates: Former caterer spreads love with chocolate chip cookies
Jennie Gwilym of Portland delivered her special cookies to essential workers during the pandemic.
Pumpkin chocolate chip oat bars are a whole-grain, feel-good snack
These bars freeze well, so make a batch or two, wrap individual pieces in wax paper, and have a snack at the ready.
Home Plates: The tale of Snow the Goat and the Gingerbread Cookies
The day a hungry, adventurous goat helped himself to a plate of cookies.
Home Plates: A great recipe for apple pie was the least of it
Edie also taught her daughter-in-law how to love.
Here we come a-brambling
The Irish countryside is awash in blackberries, which Irish bakers have cleverly learned to pair with apples.