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Coffee Flan   ...More 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS’ Reporter, Tim Sherno learned of a delicious dessert on his trip to Panama, called Flan.  The Blue Plate Restaurant Company’s Executive Chef, Joan Ida shows us how to make that Panama Treat.

Nadia Cakes   ...More The Food Network’s Cupcake Wars is a lot of fun to watch, probably delicious to judge, and most certainly hard work to participate in.  Abby Jimenez, of Champlin, took on the challenge and walked away the champion in Cupcake Wars.  She joins us with her award winning cupcakes.

Fondue   ...More Making Fondue is easy and hosting a Fondue Party is a lot of fun, especially with the ideas from The Cooking Mom, Amy Hanten.

Sugar Cookies ...More Making cut out cookies is easy and decorating them is a fun activity to do with the kids!  Professional Cake Decorator, Nancy Burgeson, shows Patrick Hammer and his kids how to do it!

Sour Cream Cookies   ...More Making cut out cookies is easy and decorating them is a fun activity to do with the kids!  Professional Cake Decorator, Nancy Burgeson, shows Patrick Hammer and his kids how to do it!

Microwave Challenge #5   ...More Cupcakes for Breakfast, Dinner and Dessert?  TCL Kitchen Star, Alice Seuffert, says yes!  She is pretty confident that her creative cupcake recipes will help her keep the Golden Whisk and take the title in our Microwave Chef’s Challenge!

Microwave Challenge #4   ...More Even though Laurie Crowell (from Golden Fig) doesn’t even own a microwave she is still hoping to take the lead in our Microwave Challenge with her creative recipe for Chocolate Salted Caramel Rolls with Pecans and Cherries.

Microwave Challenge #2   ...More   Back To Top Cooking for Dad’s, Rob Barrett, is stepping up to the challenge to see if he can overtake the lead from Cities 97’s BT with his creative recipes being prepared using only the microwave!  He is hoping that his Microwave Potato Chips and Fruit Nachos will do the trick!

Microwave Challenge #1   ...More   Back To Top Microwave ovens have been around for a long time now and are pretty much a staple in America’s kitchen.  For many, it’s main use is to warm leftovers up.  Did you know that there is a whole lot more you can do with it?  We challenged five of our favorite cooks to come up with creative recipes using only the microwave.  Cities 97’s BT is first to step up to the challenge with his Microwave Steak Fajitas and Microwave Banana Cake.

Eggnog Snowflakes   ...More   Back To Top It’s the last recipe in our Twelve Days of Cookies – and fittingly, this one is from the Land O’ Lakes kitchen them self.

Kris Kringles   ...More   Back To Top Pastry Chef Laura Bjelogrlic makes Kris Kringles as part of our 12 Days of Cookies, sponsored by Land O'Lakes!

Whoopie Pies   ...More   Back To Top The Land O’Lakes folks do it again with a Mini Chocolate Whoopie Pie with Salted Caramel Filling recipe just in time for our Twelve Days of Cookies!

Lemon D   ...More   Back To Top Emily has a favorite recipe that she just loves to share with everyone.  It has very few ingredients and it will take you just minutes to make.  Perfect for a last minute dessert idea for a holiday party!

Pecan Sandies   ...More   Back To Top Get ready for a perfect cookie for your Christmas cookie exchanges with this recipe from Laura Bjelorgrlic, The Pastry Queen.

Holiday Crunch Drops   ...More   Back To Top If there is one thing Laura Bjelorgrlic, The Pastry Queen, knows about it’s baking.  So she joins us with some of her favorite recipes for TCL’s and Land O’Lakes® Twelve Days of Cookies.

Chocolate Chewies   ...More   Back To Top Nancy Burgeson wraps up her recipes she shared for Twelve Days of Cookies with a chocolatey favorite.

Peppermint Meltaways   ...More   Back To Top Cake decorator, Nancy Burgeson, shows off her baking talents with day 6 of Twelve Days of Cookies!

Raspberry Thumbprints   ...More   Back To Top Becky Wahlund from the Land O’Lakes kitchen starts off their recipes for the 12 Days of Cookies with this tasty treat!

Scandinavian Almond Bars   ...More   Back To Top Nancy Burgeson is known to decorate a cake or two – but that isn’t where her talents end.  She shows us one of her holiday cookie favorites in our 12 Days of Cookies!

Lemon Lavender Butter Cookies   ...More   Back To Top TCL Kitchen Star, Alice Seuffert is back with another cookie recipe for our Twelve Days of Cookies.

Holiday Monster Cookies   ...More   Back To Top TCL Kitchen Star, Alice Seuffert, continues the Twelve Days of Cookies with another family favorite Christmas cookie recipe.

Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies   ...More   Back To Top The Twelve Days of Christmas brought to you by Twin Cities Live and Land O’Lakes® is a much anticipated event!  We are kicking it off with TCL Kitchen Star, Alice Seuffert and a recipe that’s close to her heart!

Waffle Recipes   ...More   Back To Top If you buy frozen waffles, you are like hundreds of millions of folks who do.  So why not be an individual and make your own homemade?  Better yet, why not make waffles for every meal of the day?  Cooking for Dads Rob Barrett shows us how it can be done!

Indian Bananas Foster   ...More   Back To Top If you’re hosting a holiday party in the coming weeks, don’t serve the regular sugar cookies or fruitcake!  Indian chef and cookbook author, Raghavan Iyer, has a recipe that will surprise your guests with some Indian flare!

JML’s Basic Pumpkin Pie   ...More   Back To Top John Micheal Lerma of Garden County Cooking, helped his grandmother roast the pumpkin meat a couple of weeks before Thanksiving for this pumpkin pie recipe.  This is one of his favorite pies.  But if you have guests that don’t like pumpkin pie, he suggests you make some German Chocolate and Creamy Apple mini-pies for them to choose from!

Creamy Thanksgiving Apple Pie ...More   Back To Top Recipe from John Michael Lerma, Garden County Cooking.

German Chocolate Pie ...More   Back To Top Recipe from John Michael Lerma, Garden County Cooking.

Chocolate Bundt Cake ...More   Back To Top Using oil from The Oilerie St. Paul.

Cooking with Cider   ...More   Back To Top You’re familiar with the saying, when life gives you lemons make lemonade.  Cookbook author, Mary Jane Miller has some ideas of what to make “when life gives you apples!”

Cider Granita ...More   Back To Top Mary Jane Miller created this yummy cold treat using apple cider.

Apple Cider Meringue Pie ...More   Back To Top Mary Jane Miller developed this recipe for a Gold Medal Flour fall baking book.  She updated the method and added an egg to make it a bit more impressive.

Sweet Potato Recipes   ...More   Back To Top Laurie Crowell from Golden Fig creates some recipes using sweet potatoes that take them beyond just cooking them with marshmallows!

Pumpkin Pie ...More   Back To Top Seth Daugherty, International Chef of Art Institute, shares his family’s favorite Pumpkin Pie recipe.

Pumpkin Marble Cheesecake ...More   Back To Top Prepared by John Michael Lerma.

Halloween Party Menu   ...More   Back To Top If you’re throwing a Halloween Party this year, we’ve got some treats to mix in with your tricks that will wow your guests!  TCL Kitchen Star, Alice Seuffert, gets ghoulishly creative in the kitchen with her Bloody Meatball Sandwiches, Spooky Dessert Sushi, and Witches Brew!

Halloween Treats   ...More   Back To Top Cookbook author, Mary Jane Miller, shows us how to make some spooky treats that will wow the kids and your party guests!

Nutella-Filled Doughnuts   ...More   Back To Top Pastry Chef Laura Bjelogrlic show us how to make warm fresh donuts at home!

Apple Spice Cake Doughnuts   ...More   Back To Top Pastry Chef Laura Bjelogrlic show us how to make warm fresh donuts at home!

Chai Cheesecake ...More   Back To Top Many moons ago when chef Raghavan Iyer was visiting Calcutta in eastern India, home to India’s confections, he happened to stick a spoon in a small clay pot filled with something creamy called bhapa doi at a well-known sweetshop.  It was love at first bite.  Decadent, velvet-smooth, devoid of any spice, it appeased my cheesecake urges instantly.  Imagine his surprise when he found out there was neither any eggs nor any cream cheese in it.  Just sweetened house made condensed milk and plain yogurt baked until set.  So here’s his rendition, equally simple with his signature chai masala.

Skillet Apple Crisp ...More   Back To Top This is also great made with sliced fresh pie pumpkins.

Crock Pot Challenge Apple Pie   ...More   Back To Top True to form, Pie Guy John Michael Lerma, found a way to make the crockpot work with his speciality…Pies!

1 Cup Apple Crisp ...More   Back To Top A simple apple crisp recipe

Mountain Dew Apple Dumplings ...More   Back To Top It’s the time of year when everyone is picking apples, eating apples and cooking with apples!  Co-host of The Weekly Dish on myTalk 107.1, Stephanie Hansen, cooks up some recipes using this fall favorite treat.

Cub Challenge #4   ...More   Back To Top  Kitchen Star, Alice Seuffert, is the fourth chef to compete in the Plenty for Twenty challenge.  She hopes her Brown Sugar Rubbed Pork with Peaches & Cream Waffles, Kielbasa & Apple Sauerkraut with Pumpkin Drop Biscuits, and Pumpkin Pie Goulash Cupcakes will be the winning combination that will have her walking away with the Golden Whisk and the Cub Foods $100 gift card.

Cub Challenge #2   ...More   Back To Top Cub Foods is looking for your ideas about everything you can make with spending only $20 or less.  The winner will get free groceries for a year.  For more information on Cub’s contest, Plenty for 20, click here.

Edible Flowers   ...More   Back To Top If you watch those popular cake decorating shows, you’ve seen the decorators make amazing creations out of icing and fondant.  Cake decorator, Nancy Burgeson, shows us how you don’t have to get quite that fancy to make a big impression with your own cakes.

Marjorie’s Honey Bars   ...More   Back To Top Marjorie Johnson has won over 2500 fair ribbons with 1000 of them being blue ribbons.  She shows us one the recipes from her Blue Ribbon Baker’s recipe book.

Crepes on a Stick   ...More   Back To Top Twin Cities Live’s official British guy, Daniel Green, gives us his take for European Food On-A-Stick!

Sweet Martha's Cookies   ...More   Back To Top Sweet Martha herself stopped by to give us a taste of the Great Minnesota Get Together. Plus she revealed what she likes to do with those leftover cookies you bring home from the Fair.

Happy Trails Bar ...More   Back To Top A fantastic breakfast bar, a super snack bar and a divine (and good for you) dessert bar.