Sylvie’s Recipe Box
Here is my Recipe Box: a collection of recipes that have appeared in my books and in my newsletter. Enjoy!
Bread
Main Dish
Dessert
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Valerie’s Favorite Birthday Cake
Valerie and I share a taste for chocolate and this is also my favorite birthday cake recipe. Good quality chocolate makes a huge difference. I love the 60% cocoa dark chocolate for melt-in-your-mouth sinfulness. Don’t eat this cake too late at night, though. All the caffeine will keep you awake! This is Valerie’s favorite cake…
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Lorraine’s Easy One-Bowl Brownies
This one-bowl recipe makes whipping up a batch of brownies for dessert easy. Sierra’s T-shirt in Detour says, “Chocolate Heals All Wounds.” She enjoys these treats made by Wyatt’s mother. From Detour See also Tex-Mex Tuna Fajitas, inspired by Detour View my Catalog of Books Click here
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Sylvie’s Yule Log
I like decorating the tree with the collection of mismatched ornaments accumulated over the years, each with its own special memory. I love to bake the few special treats that have come to mean Christmas to my family—my mother-in-law’s Cinnamon Sticky Buns, my mother’s walnut bread, a variation of my mother’s Yule Log and ginger…
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Luci’s Country Apple Tart
The first time I made this recipe, I misread two teaspoons of lemon juice as two tablespoons. I was worried about the results. But the extra tartness added something extra, and I’ve made this apple tart with the extra lemon since. Luci bakes this dessert to meet the threat to her family in Pride of…
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Francine’s Almond Coffeecake
Francine baked this almond coffeecake for Christiane in A Rose at Midnight. My family complains that I never make the same recipe twice. What can I say, I like to fiddle. I’ve made this recipe with dried cranberries or dried cherries in place of the raisins or changed the almond extract to lemon extract, the…
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Felicia’s Monster Cookies
Felicia was allergic to wheat, so Aurora made these monster cookies for her baby sister when they were young in Mask of a Hunter. My kids used to love it when I made these cookies, because the cookie tin bulged. I’d save some of the mini candy-coated chocolate pieces and make smiley faces or their…
