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Easy Rustic Peach & Blueberry Tart with Store Bought Crust Summer is peach season, the perfect time to take advantage of flavorful, locally grown fruit. It’s the time of the year when the supermarket is bursting with juicy fresh peaches just waiting to be turned into peach crisp, peach cobbler, …
Easy Banana Whoopie Pies with Nutella Filling Looking for something fun and delicious to do with those brown, overripe bananas? Banana bread with chocolate chips was always my go to, until I discovered these Easy Banana Whoopie Pies with Nutella Filling. The process is super easy and produces a moist, cakey cookie …
Zesty Lemon Ricotta Cookies (Nordstrom Copycat) Who doesn’t love a treat from a fancy department store? I came across Nordstrom lemon ricotta cookies when doing research and discovered they were similar to my own recipe. With a zesty lemon flavor, light cake-like texture, and a tangy lemon glaze, these cookies …
Easy Peanut Butter Mousse Pie with Chocolate Ganache Peanut butter mousse pie with chocolate ganache is a simple but delicious dessert that you can pull together in no time. With a crushed Oreo cookie crust, a light and fluffy peanut butter mousse filling, and a …
St. Patrick’s Day or Any Day: Chocolate Whoopie Pies I’m starting to feel guilty posting so many dessert recipes but I have really been churning out some great things that I want to share. These chocolate whoopie pies with Baileys buttercream were something I threw …
Dreaming of Lemon Olive Oil Ricotta Cake I think about cake a lot. Not necessarily eating it. Baking it. I love to think up new styles and flavors and imagine what works well together. The other night I was in bed stress watching a DVRed …
An Old-Fashioned Treat: Stamped Spice Cookies Ever since I was a little girl, I have been trying to transform my life into the setting of a 19th century novel. It is not surprising then, that I enjoy baking “old-fashioned” treats and desserts suitable for a …
An Accidental Dessert: Pear Tarts The other day I poached some pears. I was trying to recreate a savory tart – pears with cheese – that I saw on the internet. The tart was not a big success. It was fine but it had a …
Old Fashioned Baking: Oatmeal Raisin Cookies I am often torn between wanting to bake “fancy” things and wanting to bake comfort foods from my childhood. Fancy things include macarons, French pastries, croissants. Comfort foods include brownies, layer cakes, and cookies – the old-fashioned kind like …
Cozy Up to Winter with Chewy Molasses Ginger Cookies I always think it’s kind of weird the way people put up their holiday decorations the day after Halloween and then take them down the day after Christmas. This is the hard part of the year, …
