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Kat Armstrong's Mother's Mexican Chocolate Cake

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Mexican Chocolate Cake

One of my favorite questions to ask guests on The Turquoise Table Podcast is: What’s your favorite comfort food to share around the table? My friend Kat Armstrong said hands-down it’s her mother’s famous Mexican Chocolate Cake. I boldly asked if her mom would share her recipe with all of us and she graciously agreed. Sarah and I had a…
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Almond Sheet Cake

Spontaneous moments after dinner at the Turquoise Table are frequent. It’s become a favorite way to let the kids blow off steam before bedtime while we get a few minutes to catch up. Having cookies or something simple to offer just sweetens the deal. My mom and I often make dozens of the Turquoise Table Cookies at a time and…
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Milky Way Candy Cake

Mwahahahaha. Welcome to the Halloween candy conundrum. What to do with all the leftover Halloween candy? You’ve paid your kids a penny for each piece of candy they will surrender You’ve dropped off pillowcases full of sticky sweets to the nearest homeless shelter You’ve stolen all the good candy for yourself Yet there are still bite-sized, caramel-filled, nougat-laden, sugar-coated pieces of…
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Lemon Raspberry Cupcakes

We Get By With a Little Help from our Friends I woke up needing my peeps. Not the pastel marshmallow kind. This is supposed to be a peppy, pre-Easter cupcake post. But, as I sit here staring at the blank screen and blinking cursor I’m not feeling peppy. I’m spinning in the middle of Holy week while my heart is…
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Old Fashioned Butter Cake

Extravagant love. We talked about extravagant love at home all week. I explained to Littlest how even an Old Fashioned Butter Cake was extravagant — in the not so distant past pure butter was rare making this cake recipe not only delicious but an extravagant gesture of love. We celebrated Sarah’s 2 year anniversary of an extravagant spine surgery savoring…
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Peach Cobbler

Good food with friends & family is the cure of souls. Summer is for picnics and potlucks and long, lazy evenings gathered outside with friends. To keep things simple we make this twist on a traditional Southern Peach Cobbler. It’s so easy the girls have taken up ownership of the cobbler makin’. Depending on where you live, you can probably…
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