Complex and embellished with fragrant cinnamon, this Apple Cream Cheese Bundt Cake is a buttery and moist autumn cake with a bonus rich cream cheese filling. Oh, and did I mention there is a praline frosting, too? As it heats the sweet cream middle bakes up into a delectable ribbon of yumminess with a...
Desserts
Copycat Chick-Fil-A Peach Milkshake
Try my method for a sensational peach milkshake that tastes just like the Chick-Fil-A peach shake, and you can even savor it on a Sunday! For additional seriously-peachy recipes, try my Peach Shortcake Biscuits Peach, Strawberry & Maple Jam Sunsational Hard Peach Tea Cocktail Peach and Apple Hand Pies Fresh Peach and Tomato Caprese Salad...
Walnut-Bottom Peach & Apple Pie
Walnut-Bottom Peach & Apple Pie is one of those 'short window of opportunity' recipes that you'll kick yourself for not trying. Autumn is pie season. I just made that up, but it sounds right, doesn't it? How big of a pie fan are you? Try my other great pie recipes - County Fair Lemon Pie,...
Semi-Homemade Orange Marmalade Cream Cake
I am certainly no cake boss. Cake is pressure for us 'non-bakers,' but this Semi-Homemade Orange Marmalade Cream Cake makes even the most novice home baker appear all the mighty pro. This is a beautiful July birthday cake incorporating flowers and fruit. It also makes for a gorgeous Easter cake or even a sentimental treat...
Crostata with Almond, Apricot and Cheese
Let the focus be on fresh simple ingredients, because simplicity and Italian recipes go hand in hand. Crostata with Almond, Apricot and Cheese can be served with a dollop of fresh whipped cream, a scoop of French vanilla ice cream, or as it is without any toppings. Crostata is derived from the Latin crustata,...
Salted Honey Yogurt Pops
Fresh-from-the-freezer treats are the name of the game this summer, and you only need a few simple ingredients and a pop mold to whip up your own Salted Honey Yogurt Pops. A fruity, creamy, and healthy homemade frozen treat, Salted Honey Yogurt Pops boast down to earth ingredients and a bunch less sugar than...
Berry Good Cornmeal Streusel Muffins
Sugar-topped cornmeal streusel muffins loaded with blueberries and raspberries – what is not to love I ask? Berry Good Cornmeal Streusel Muffins are a famed breakfast sweet in my family, and pack especially well for early mornings on the beach. Since we are not doing much 'beach' these days given shutdowns, a cozy corner...
Huguenot Church Blueberry Brunch Cake
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 Huguenot Church Blueberry Brunch Cake is quintessentially old Charleston, this recipe emanating from an 1871 archival reprint from the Huguenot Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Huguenot Church Blueberry Brunch Cake...
Fruit Galette with Salted Honey
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 Seems to me these delicate summer fruits all come in at the same time, leaving me no choice but to cook 'em all up together...a wildly imperfect sugared masterpiece. A...
Grapefruit Sugar Pound Cake
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 Grapefruit Sugar Pound Cake is quintessentially summer's breath on a fancy plate. Consume slowly. Grapefruit Sugar Pound Cake is a straightforward cream cheese pound cake, elevated by the addition of...
Brooklyn Egg Creams and Classic Black & Whites
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 The peculiarity of the matter is such that an egg cream contains neither eggs, nor cream... Brooklyn Egg Creams and Classic Black & Whites are both spectacular singular indulgences....
Chocolate Raspberry Tart
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 This stunner of a tart showcases the raspberry like no other, seductively mingling with soft chocolate ganache that has been heightened with a trifling glint of almond. Think this looks...
Strawberry & Cream Muffins
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 Strawberry season is upon us, and with an abundance of ripe and delicious berries, use some of your haul to bake up these dreamy Strawberry & Cream Muffins. Strawberry...
Cream Puffs with Jasmine Custard
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 A simple choux pastry dough is mixed together, then baked and filled with a subtle and sweet jasmine custard. A wonderfully 'Spring' dessert, Cream Puffs with Jasmine Custard are...
County Fair Lemon Pie
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 Serve this irresistible No-Bake County Fair Lemon Pie on special occasions like Mother’s Day or a birthday or anytime you need an easy lemon dessert. This one will be the...
Bailey's Irish Cream Cupcakes
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 Bless your little Irish heart and every other Irish part, and may your days be filled with cupcakes. Celebrate the luck of the Irish with Bailey’s Irish Cream...
Pistachio Cake
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 Pistachio Cake is a classic recipe printed and re-printed for decades in old-school church and neighborhood cookbooks. There are probably hundreds of variations, but the general components are white or...
Cherry Chocolate Chunk Oatmeal Cookies
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 I mean, whenever do the merits of chocolate really need an explanation? Exactly….never. These amped up Cherry Chocolate Chunk Oatmeal cookies are consistently scrumptious winners in my big tome...
Chocolate Pie
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 If there ever were to be an official ‘flavor’ for Valentine’s Day, I’m thinking it’d have to be chocolate, so of course if there were ever an official ‘food,’ for...
Chocolate & Toffee Matzo Crunch
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 Ready for the easiest sweet treat that you can easily make between the big recipes? Chocolate & Toffee Matzo Crunch is colorful, flavorful, and wildly ADDICTIVE!...
