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Cucumber Sandwiches from The Importance of Being Earnest

This week on The Great DPPL Bake-Along:

We make Cucumber Sandwiches, the perfect accompaniment to afternoon tea in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

We’ll share our results, our recipes, and a little bit about our chosen stories on this blog.

AND we invite YOU to bake along with us.

Share what you make by tagging us with #DPPLBakes, send us your favorite recipes, or just enjoy reading our entries.

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Chava’s Coffee Cake from The Golem and the Jinni

This week on The Great DPPL Bake-Along:

We bake coffee cake inspired by Chava's first foray into baking in The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker.

We’ll share our results, our recipes, and a little bit about our chosen stories on this blog.

AND we invite YOU to bake along with us.

Share what you make by tagging us with #DPPLBakes, send us your favorite recipes, or just enjoy reading our entries.

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Marcel Proust’s Madeleines

Remembrance of Things Past
Even if you've never read Proust, you might have some inkling that there's a strong association between madeleines, a small rich cake, typically baked in a shell-shaped mold and often decorated with coconut and jam, and memory. 

About 50 pages into the 3000 page behemoth of the novel Remembrance of Things Past, the author describes a flood of memory coming back to him with the first bite of this little scalloped French pastry.

Who doesn't have sentimental taste memories?

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Cookies from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
This week on The Great DPPL Bake-Along:

We bake chocolate chunk oatmeal cookies, a sweet treat inspired by If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff and illustrated by Felicia Bond.

We’ll share our results, our recipes, and a little bit about our chosen stories on this blog.

AND we invite YOU to bake along with us.

Share what you make by tagging us with #DPPLBakes, send us your favorite recipes, or just enjoy reading our entries.

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Apple Turnovers From Little Women

This week on The Great DPPL Bake-Along:

We bake apple turnovers, a delicious and comforting treat from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.

We’ll share our results, our recipes, and a little bit about our chosen stories on this blog.

AND we invite YOU to bake along with us.

Share what you make by tagging us with #DPPLBakes, send us your favorite recipes, or just enjoy reading our entries.

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