Okay so you could argue I’m using the word “pie” pretty loosely here. Unlike most s’mores pies out there, the main chocolate filling isn’t pudding or one of those cold custardy ones like in a french silk pie. It’s…just brownies. Full disclosure: the brownies also come from a box. Don’t @ me, okay? If you’re…
Desserts
Red Velvet Crepe Cake
with Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting and Cherries If you’re like me, you dread the annual deluge of pastel pink EVERYTHING upon our stores each February. This year I wanted to make something that was still fitting for the holiday without being overly frilly or pink. And soooo…I decided to make crepes, which are literally, physically…
Holiday Spiced Caramels
Happy Thanksgiving! So, for some reason I’ve never been the biggest fan of the traditional pies around this time of year. I do like the flavors though, so I worked two of them into caramels instead. The base recipe for the soft caramels is the same and can be made with or without a candy…
Peach Cookies
If you’ve never seen these cookie peach look-a-likes before you might think I invented them. As much as I’d love to let you think that, they’re actually an old traditional Italian cookie. The cookies themselves are pretty simple vanilla cookies sandwiched together and filled with a vanilla custard. Well, normally. I changed them because I’m…
Old Fashioned Cocktail Lollipops
Alcoholic candy. Two of my greatest loves combined.
Mandarin Tahini Cake
I’ve wanted to write a baking recipe for the blog using tahini for forever and now it’s finally here. Tahini by itself can be kind of bitter but in baking it lends this awesome deep nutty flavor to anything, without being so transparent as its loud cousin, peanut butter. That is, it plays much more…