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Coca Cola Cake
Coca Cola cake is full of sweet chocolatey flavor (and mini marshmallows!). With a soft, fluffy crumb and fudgy Coca Cola frosting, it’s an old-fashioned cake recipe you’ll want to make again and again. Looking for more easy sheet cake recipes? Try my white Texas sheet cake and fluffy buttermilk sheet cake, next!Â
Why This Coca Cola Cake Recipe Works
This Coca Cola cake is a classic Southern dessert, made with real cola!
Continue reading Coca Cola Cake at Cookies and Cups.
Royal Icing Recipe
Royal icing recipe is easy to use and perfect for outlining and flooding sugar cookies. Make fun and simple, beautifully decorated cookies for any holiday or occasion! Why You’ll Love This Royal Icing Recipe
This easy Royal icing recipe is made with meringue powder and sets like a dream. You’re only 3 ingredients away from gorgeous decorated cookies for any occasion! It’s perfect for outlining and flooding cookies and piping details.
Continue reading Royal Icing Recipe at Cookies and Cups.
Salted Toffee Cashew Cookies
Why You’ll Love These Salted Cashew Cookies
- Flavor! This cookie recipe STARTS with a salted browned butter base which imparts tons of nutty flavor into the cookie. Add to the chopped salted cashews, buttery toffee bits, and melty chocolate chips!
- Texture! This cookie bakes up with crispy, buttery edges, and soft, gooey centers, plus the crunchy cashews and soft chocolate chips.
Continue reading Salted Toffee Cashew Cookies at Cookies and Cups.
Meyer Lemon Bundt Cake
Meyer lemon bundt cake is bursting with the bright, sweet flavors of fresh Meyer lemons. Enjoy a slice for breakfast or as a treat with a cup of coffee or tea! Looking for another easy lemon bundt cake recipe for spring? Try my lemon pistachio bundt cake made with pistachio instant pudding and lemon zest.
Why You’ll Love This Meyer Lemon Bundt Cake Recipe
This lemon bundt cake is a soft and buttery pound cake, filled with the sweetness of Meyer lemons.
Continue reading Meyer Lemon Bundt Cake at Cookies and Cups.
Pizza Casserole
pizza casserole is quick to make and easy to customize with your favorite pizza toppings. Assemble this casserole the night before and have dinner on the table in 20 minutes! Love getting creative with casseroles? Because, same. Try my easy Frito pie casserole and this flavor-bomb of a Doritos casserole, next!
Why You’ll Love This Pizza Casserole Recipe
This pizza casserole has all the flavors of an oven-fresh pepperoni pizza, packed into a cheesy, weeknight-friendly casserole.
Continue reading Pizza Casserole at Cookies and Cups.
Orange Crinkle Cookies
Orange crinkle cookies are soft, chewy orange cookies with a crackly powdered sugar coating and sweet citrus flavor. They’re so fun to make, and every bite melts in your mouth! Looking for more cookie recipes bursting with citrus? Try these orange cranberry cookies or my lemon cooler cookies.
Why You’ll Love This Orange Crinkle Cookie Recipe
Orange crinkle cookies are the best way to brighten up a cookie plate.
Continue reading Orange Crinkle Cookies at Cookies and Cups.
Cream of Mushroom Chicken
cream of mushroom chicken dinner is ready in one skillet in 30 minutes! It’s easy to make with tender and juicy chicken pieces cooked in a creamy mushroom gravy, perfect for serving over rice or noodles. Why You’ll Love This Cream of Mushroom Chicken Recipe
This comforting cream of mushroom chicken recipe is a quick and easy skillet dinner that the whole family begs for at least once a week.
Continue reading Cream of Mushroom Chicken at Cookies and Cups.
How To Make Brown Sugar
how to make brown sugar with 2 ingredients in 5 minutes! For more easy baking tips and substitutions, check out my tutorials on homemade buttermilk and how to make cake flour, too!
Why You Should Make This Brown Sugar Substitute
Can you make brown sugar at home? Yes! And it’s SO easy to do.
Continue reading How To Make Brown Sugar at Cookies and Cups.
Kentucky Butter Cake
Kentucky Butter Cake: What To Expect
- Simple Ingredients. Chances are you have everything in your kitchen right now to make this incredibly delicious cake.
- Great to make ahead! I am going to tell you this Kentucky Butter Cake is even better the second day!
Continue reading Kentucky Butter Cake at Cookies and Cups.
Lemon Pistachio Bundt Cake
Why You’ll Love This Pistachio Cake
- Texture! This cake is ULTRA moist due to the packet of dry pudding mix you add right to the batter! Along with flavor, the pudding makes this cake so soft and tender.
- Flavor! Pistachio and lemon pair beautifully.
Continue reading Lemon Pistachio Bundt Cake at Cookies and Cups.
Coca Cola Cake
Coca Cola cake is full of sweet chocolatey flavor (and mini marshmallows!). With a soft, fluffy crumb and fudgy Coca Cola frosting, it’s an old-fashioned cake recipe you’ll want to make again and again. Looking for more easy sheet cake recipes? Try my white Texas sheet cake and fluffy buttermilk sheet cake, next!Â
Why This Coca Cola Cake Recipe Works
This Coca Cola cake is a classic Southern dessert, made with real cola!
Continue reading Coca Cola Cake at Cookies and Cups.
Royal Icing Recipe
Royal icing recipe is easy to use and perfect for outlining and flooding sugar cookies. Make fun and simple, beautifully decorated cookies for any holiday or occasion! Why You’ll Love This Royal Icing Recipe
This easy Royal icing recipe is made with meringue powder and sets like a dream. You’re only 3 ingredients away from gorgeous decorated cookies for any occasion! It’s perfect for outlining and flooding cookies and piping details.
Continue reading Royal Icing Recipe at Cookies and Cups.
Salted Toffee Cashew Cookies
Why You’ll Love These Salted Cashew Cookies
- Flavor! This cookie recipe STARTS with a salted browned butter base which imparts tons of nutty flavor into the cookie. Add to the chopped salted cashews, buttery toffee bits, and melty chocolate chips!
- Texture! This cookie bakes up with crispy, buttery edges, and soft, gooey centers, plus the crunchy cashews and soft chocolate chips.
Continue reading Salted Toffee Cashew Cookies at Cookies and Cups.
Meyer Lemon Bundt Cake
Meyer lemon bundt cake is bursting with the bright, sweet flavors of fresh Meyer lemons. Enjoy a slice for breakfast or as a treat with a cup of coffee or tea! Looking for another easy lemon bundt cake recipe for spring? Try my lemon pistachio bundt cake made with pistachio instant pudding and lemon zest.
Why You’ll Love This Meyer Lemon Bundt Cake Recipe
This lemon bundt cake is a soft and buttery pound cake, filled with the sweetness of Meyer lemons.
Continue reading Meyer Lemon Bundt Cake at Cookies and Cups.
Pizza Casserole
pizza casserole is quick to make and easy to customize with your favorite pizza toppings. Assemble this casserole the night before and have dinner on the table in 20 minutes! Love getting creative with casseroles? Because, same. Try my easy Frito pie casserole and this flavor-bomb of a Doritos casserole, next!
Why You’ll Love This Pizza Casserole Recipe
This pizza casserole has all the flavors of an oven-fresh pepperoni pizza, packed into a cheesy, weeknight-friendly casserole.
Continue reading Pizza Casserole at Cookies and Cups.
Orange Crinkle Cookies
Orange crinkle cookies are soft, chewy orange cookies with a crackly powdered sugar coating and sweet citrus flavor. They’re so fun to make, and every bite melts in your mouth! Looking for more cookie recipes bursting with citrus? Try these orange cranberry cookies or my lemon cooler cookies.
Why You’ll Love This Orange Crinkle Cookie Recipe
Orange crinkle cookies are the best way to brighten up a cookie plate.
Continue reading Orange Crinkle Cookies at Cookies and Cups.
Cream of Mushroom Chicken
cream of mushroom chicken dinner is ready in one skillet in 30 minutes! It’s easy to make with tender and juicy chicken pieces cooked in a creamy mushroom gravy, perfect for serving over rice or noodles. Why You’ll Love This Cream of Mushroom Chicken Recipe
This comforting cream of mushroom chicken recipe is a quick and easy skillet dinner that the whole family begs for at least once a week.
Continue reading Cream of Mushroom Chicken at Cookies and Cups.
How To Make Brown Sugar
how to make brown sugar with 2 ingredients in 5 minutes! For more easy baking tips and substitutions, check out my tutorials on homemade buttermilk and how to make cake flour, too!
Why You Should Make This Brown Sugar Substitute
Can you make brown sugar at home? Yes! And it’s SO easy to do.
Continue reading How To Make Brown Sugar at Cookies and Cups.
Kentucky Butter Cake
Kentucky Butter Cake: What To Expect
- Simple Ingredients. Chances are you have everything in your kitchen right now to make this incredibly delicious cake.
- Great to make ahead! I am going to tell you this Kentucky Butter Cake is even better the second day!
Continue reading Kentucky Butter Cake at Cookies and Cups.
Lemon Pistachio Bundt Cake
Why You’ll Love This Pistachio Cake
- Texture! This cake is ULTRA moist due to the packet of dry pudding mix you add right to the batter! Along with flavor, the pudding makes this cake so soft and tender.
- Flavor! Pistachio and lemon pair beautifully.
Continue reading Lemon Pistachio Bundt Cake at Cookies and Cups.
FTC Releases New Rule Provisions That Expand Company Responsibilities Under The CAN-SPAM Act
On Monday, May 12, 2008, the Federal Trade Commission (aFTCa) released a several new rules under the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (aCAN-SPAM Acta or aActa). The Act and the implementing rules establish standards for sending commercial email messages.
The new rules stem from two rulemaking proceedings and are intended to clarify the existing requirements as follows: :
(1) add a definition of the term apersona to clarify that CAN-SPAMas obligations are not limited to natural persons;
(2) modify the definition of the term asendera such that when multiple partiesa products and services are promoted, it is easier to determine which entity is responsible for CAN-SPAM compliance;
(3) clarify that a sender may satisfy the avalid physical postal addressa by using a registered post office box or private mail box established under U.S. Postal Service regulations; and
(4) clarify that email recipients who wish to opt-out from receiving future email messages cannot be required to pay a fee, provide any information in addition to their email address and opt-out preferences, or otherwise be required to take any steps other than sending a reply email or visiting a single webpage.
The FTC also released a Statement of Business and Purpose (SBP), which addresses several topics that were addressed in the rulemaking proceeding but that are not subject to new rules. For example, the FTC declined to alter the length of time in which a sender may honor an opt-out request. The FTC also declined to expand the statutory definition beyond the five categories of atransactionala or arelationshipa services it exempts from the CAN-SPAM Actas requirements, as codified at 16 C.F.R. ASS 316.2(o).
These rules have the potential to promote greater marketing flexibility as they preserve the ability of entities to jointly and efficiently market products and services through commercial and promotional email. However, entities must be careful to understand the responsibilities that ensue from classification as a asendera when such marketing endeavors are pursued.Leased Access Order Imposes Significant Regulatory Burdens on Cable Providers
On November 27, 2007, the Federal Communications Commission (aCommissiona or aFCCa) released an Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in its Leased Access Proceeding (aFNPRMa). The Order was released on February 1, 2008.
In the Report and Order, the Commission modified its leased access rules which require cable operators to set aside channel capacity for commercial use by unaffiliated video programmers. Specifically, ASS 612 of the Communications Act authorizes the Commission to promulgate leased access rules to promote diversity of programming at reasonable terms and conditions. In its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking sought comment on a number of provisions relating to enforcement, rates and procedural issues. The Commission adopted a plethora of cumbersome new rules in all of these area that all cable operators must fully comply with, in addition to the already existing regulatory standards. The Commission attempts to justify the rule modifications by claiming that they are necessary in order to create uniformity in customer service standards, negotiation standards, rates, reporting requirements. However, these rules significantly limit the ability of cable operators to carry out their business plans in a manner that is tailored to their specific business needs. These rules become effective 90 days after publication in the Federal Register.
The Commission tried to take a preemptive strike against any challenge by cable operators, claiming that the rules, as adopted withstand constitutional scrutiny. While the DC Circuit has already held that the leased access provisions of the 1992 Cable Act are not content-based, further regulation may not survive the intermediate scrutiny standard of review due to the elimination of public access obligations in the broadcast context and the great possibility of a negative impact on revenue impact may be a taking. Further, robust growth in access to the Internet and increasing consumer preference for web-based and other alternative forms of content diminishes the need for access through traditional cable service.FCC Releases Proposals to Reform USF
On Tuesday, January 29, 2008, the Federal Communications Commission ("Commission") released three Notices of Proposed Rulemaking ("NPRM") to examine the deficiencies in the high-cost Universal Service Fund ("USF"). The Commission asks for comment in three areas: (1) changes to the identical support rule for wireless providers; (2) use of reverse auctions to distribute subsidies; and (3) recommendations of the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service including making broadband services eligible to receive subsidies.
These reform proposals are long overdue as the stability of the fund, in terms of both contribution base and distributions has waned in recent years. Whether the reform efforts announced will actually go through is yet to be determined. Commission Democrats have already expressed dissenting views on the use of reverse auctions, demonstrating a lack of unity on the proposals. And, industry backlash is highly likely.NCTA Appeals Commissionas MDU Order
On January 22, 2008, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (aNCTAa) filed a Petition to Stay a Federal Communications Commission (aCommissiona) Order, prohibiting exclusive contracts between multichannel video programming distributors (aMVPDsa) subject to section 628 of the Communications Act and owners of multiple dwelling units (aMDUsa). NCTA petitioned the D.C. Court of Appeals for review of the Order on January 16, 2008. Prior to the Commissionas ruling, exclusive contracts were not regulated by the Commission. NCTA takes issue with the fact that the Order not only bans exclusive deals on a prospective basis, but also renders all previously exclusive deals void, stripping MVPD providers of their contractual rights and jeopardizing their ability to provide video, voice and data services.
NCTAas petition rests on the premise that the Commission has no statutory authority to prohibit exclusive deals, and even if it did, the Commission can not abrogate existing deals. Further, NCTA argues that the Commissionas decision is arbitrary and capricious as it dramatically changed its position and analysis from just four years ago and, failed to state why meddling with existing contracts results in any tangible benefit for consumers.
Given the wide range of parties involved and the nature of the issues, the Court will certainly have its hands full trying to balance the interests of all parties involved to reach a fair and workable outcome.Recent Forbearance Petitions Demonstrate Need for Meaningful Intercarrier Compensation Reform
On January 11, 2008, Embarq filed a forbearance petition with the Commission to eliminate the aEnhanced Service Providera (aESPa) Exemption to interstate access charges. Embarq claims that grant of its petition would make ESPs telecommunications carriers, thus subject to regulation. ESPs would no longer be considered acustomersa of telecommunications carriers.
The Embarq petition makes clear that it is targeting specific types of companies for new regulation. Foremost, Embarq seeks to create additional regulatory obligations for interconnected VoIP providers, such as cable operators and Vonage. In addition, the proposed regulation would extend to purely Internet-based calling services like Skype. Most damaging is that the petition appears to treat all ESPs, including conference calling companies, voicemail providers, and others, as telecommunications carriers, subject to full Commission regulation, including reporting requirements and access charges.
Meanwhile, late last year, Feature Group IP also filed a forbearance petition requesting that the Commission affirm the ESP Exemption, as applicable to advanced IP communication systems.
Both petitions emphasize the greater need of a comprehensive reform effort to treat like services with regulatory parity under a unified rate scheme. Rather than perpetuating the interim regime, which is built upon discriminatory regulations, sponsored by industry giants, the Commission should seize the opportunity as a means toward obtaining equal treatment for all telecommunications traffic by eliminating disparate intercarrier compensation rate structures for otherwise identical functionality to even the playing field among providers and enhance consumer benefit.FCC Seeks Comment in MDU Exclusivity Proceeding
On Monday, January 7, 2008 an FCC order which voids exclusive contracts between multichannel video programming distributors (aMVPDsa) subject to section 628 of the Communications Act and owners of multiple dwelling units (aMDUsa) was published in the Federal Register. The FCC also released a notice of proposed rulemaking (aNPRMa) seeking comment on whether providers of Direct Broadcast Satellite (aDBSa) and Private Cable Operators (aPCOsa) should be permitted to have exclusive access to MDUs. The notice also considers prohibiting exclusive marketing arrangements and bulk billing. The purpose of the NPRM is to determine whether these practices benefits or harms video consumers in MDUs. Comments are due on or before February 6, 2008 and reply comments are due on or before March 7, 2008.Martin in the Hot Seat (Again)
Today, the Federal Communications Commission (aCommissiona or aFCCa) voted to overturn its 32-year old media ownership prohibition. Under the ban, broadcasters in the nationas 20 largest markets are prohibited from also owning a newspaper. Todayas vote is somewhat surprising due to the intense criticism that Chairman Kevin Martin & Co. have received in recent weeks from members of the House and Senate on media ownership, Commission oversight and operations, as well as a host of other issues. Legislators have questioned Martinas self-imposed aKGB-like atmosphere,a lack of accessibility and a slew of decisions based on little evidence or notice. Although Martin promised lawmakers more transparency, Martin appears to have ignored his own recommendations by continuing his pattern of making last minute changes to the proposal prior to the Commission vote. Again, significant backlash is expected due to Martinas rush to bring the item to agenda and a vote.
Cable companies are most affected by Martinas erratic regulatory agenda. It is expected that the Commission will pass a rule prohibiting cable companies from serving no more than 30% of the nationas subscribers in the near future. Martin also has hopes of reincarnating his a-la-carte pricing plan and extending indecency rules to apply to cable. Hopefully Martin will raise these, and all other issues, in an open forum, where such contentious issues are subject to the appropriate level the rhetoric and debate warranted.GAO Urges the FCC to Develop a Comprehensive DTV Transition Plan
The Federal Communications Commission (aCommissiona) has suffered yet another embarrassing moment in its highly criticized digital television (aDTVa) transition planning. On December 11, the General Accountability Office released a report, expanding upon points made in prior Congressional testimony which faulted the Commission for not having a fully developed plan in place, with a little over a year until the hard date of the transition is met. Specifically, the GAO requested that the plan include: (1) detailed goals, milestones, and time frames that can be used to gauge performance and progress, identify gaps, and determine areas for improvement; (2) strategies for collaboration between public and private sector stakeholders to agree on roles and responsibilities; (3) a description of reporting requirements to track stakeholder efforts against planned goals; and (4) strategies for managing and mitigating risks to avoid potential problems and target federal resources.a All this, of course, takes valuable Commission time and resources, both of which are running thin given the time constraints that the Commission is now operating under.
While Commissioner Copps emphatically stated that a[i]t continues to astound [him] that we do not have a comprehensive DTV transition plan,a and that a[t]his effort is far too important to be left to chance or patchwork decisions by individual companies,a it remains to be seen whether the Commission will act expeditiously to implements a workable solution.Commission Seeks to Extend Do-Not-Call Registry Beyond 5-Year Limit
On November 27, the Commission adopted a NPRM that examined whether numbers placed on the Do-Not-Call registry should be kept on the list beyond the current 5-year period. The NPRM proposes that telemarketers would be obligated to honor the registrations either until the number was removed by consumers or the database administrator, due to disconnection or reassignment.
Extension of the Do-Not-Call registry rules would prolong the tension between the Commissionas existing Customer Proprietary Network Information (aCPNIa) rules and telemarketing regulation. If a subscriber is listed on a Do-Not-Call registry, the carrier or marketer would not be permitted to contact that customer via telephone, even if contact would be permissible under the existing CPNI regime.Commission Examines Formalized Forbearance Procedures
In a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (aNPRMa) released on November 30, 2007, the Commission responded to a petition filed by several CLECs asking the Commission to tighten its procedural requirements for granting forbearance under Section 10 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (aActa).
The CLECs asked for rules establishing notice and burden-of-proof requirements, opportunity for comment, and access to documents in forbearance proceedings.
Approval of the petition marks a significant win for CLECs, who have been abused by last-minute submissions made by the Bells to the Commission. The Bells have used the lax forbearance rules to their advantage in recent years. Currently the Bells are permitted to ask the Commission to ease pricing restrictions on services they sell to competitors on a market-to-market basis. The lack of procedural safeguards has left everyone except the entity seeking relief completely unaware of the extent of the relief granted to the Bells. Establishing formalized procedures guarantees transparency in the process by ensuring that all affected parties have a full and fair opportunity to voice concerns to the Commission.Page took 6 seconds to load.
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