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‘Magic Shell’ Topping for Ice Cream
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‘Magic Shell’ Topping for Ice Cream

PollyJuly 21, 2013August 28, 2025

It’s summer!  Time for ice cream, and one of the easiest recipes ever posted on this site! Magic Shell! You know the stuff, right?  You squeeze the chocolate-y liquid onto ice cream and it hardens up almost immediately.  Then you…

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Mini Apple Pies
FallFruitsPies & TartsSweets

Mini Apple Pies

PollyNovember 27, 2012April 26, 2026

I hear mini pies are all the rage now. Bye-bye cake pops and chocolate with bacon; hellooooooo mini pies!  Here’s a great recipe with which to start.  Having made this recipe a few times, I now know a few things…

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Lemon Layer Cake
Cakes & CupcakesSpringSweets

Lemon Layer Cake

PollyAugust 21, 2011August 28, 2025

It was time for my cookbook club’s “Signature Cake” meeting.  A “Signature Cake”, is show-y cake, one that we might become remembered for. A special cake our family and friends might look forward to, or even ask for, on birthdays and special…

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Blueberry Chip Cookies
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Blueberry Chip Cookies

PollyJuly 26, 2011August 23, 2025

Hey world, there’s a new cookie on the plate!  It’s sort of like a chocolate chip cookie—it has all the best elements of a chocolate chip cookie—it crunches like a chocolate chip cookie, and is crisp around the edges and…

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Butterbeer Cupcakes
Cakes & CupcakesSweets

Butterbeer Cupcakes

PollyJuly 13, 2011July 25, 2025

Harry Potter 2011—a flash from the past! My 20-year-old twins have tickets to the midnight show—of course they do. They were in second grade when I read the first book to them. Next thing I know, we’re at a bookstore at…

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Yellow Cake with Chocolate Frosting
Cakes & CupcakesSweets

Yellow Cake with Chocolate Frosting

PollyJune 17, 2011August 11, 2025

Who doesn’t like yellow cake with chocolate frosting?  It’s a classic!  This recipe and photo is from Cook’s Illustrated. The little editorial near the recipe on page 51 of the Spring 2011 edition of Cook’s said everything I want to…

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Chocolate-Peanut Butter Popcorn
AppetizersSummerSweets

Chocolate-Peanut Butter Popcorn

PollyJune 14, 2011March 7, 2026

This recipe is almost the same recipe as Muddy Buddies, but using popcorn instead of Rice Chex!  It’s a cinch to pull together, and it’s melt-in-your mouth delicious 🙂  I mean, seriously addictive. I am pretty sure you have all…

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Frozen Bananas (with or without Peanut Butter)
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Frozen Bananas (with or without Peanut Butter)

PollyJune 4, 2011August 28, 2025

I’ve been making frozen bananas for a long time and have decided that Hershey’s Special Dark is the best chocolate to compliment the taste of the banana—odd, since I am usually a milk chocolate devotee. It is also the most…

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It's all about the recipe—really, it is! I have amassed quite a collection of recipes from my favorite cookbooks, food magazines, friends, the Internet, and more recently my adult daughters. I test every recipe I post. Some I've been cooking for years, decades even, and a few I have made only a few times. I don't post mediocre recipes. I don't post good recipes. I post GREAT recipes! When I find a recipe I LOVE, I can't wait to share it. I started In the Kitchen with Polly on January 01, 2010, a joint venture between myself and my non-cooking but most excellent webmaster, proofreader, technical goddess and all-around bestie, ratty (not a joke—ratty is her chosen nickname—her Mama didn’t do that to her, she did it to herself!). Last year we hit a snag—the website went up in monstrous flames. It took a long time to sort out what happened and even longer to recreate what was lost. Hundreds of pictures gone, and every recipe we posted (300+) over the last 14 years had to be reformatted, many pictures retaken. It's done now though, and we are back! I like this brighter version :) Scroll through! Find something you like, and let's get cooking! There’s a search button and there are also tags to click on if you want to find a recipe for a specific food. If you need it, the print button is on the preview page and at the end of each post.

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