This is a great recipe for key lime pie. I even dare say it is better than the key lime pie I have had in Key West. But I better not say that too loud, I’ll offend someone. I have made key lime pie a few times before, and always just used the bottled key [...]
Archive for the ‘Dessert’ Category
Kumquat Refrigerator Pie
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Have you ever had a kumquat before? I haven’t had one since I was a kid. I faintly remember a family member urging me to try this little orange, proclaiming, “You’ll love it!” I also remember the out pour of laughter when my mouth puckered from the super sour center. Kumquats are nature’s sour candies. [...]
Ginger Snaps with Tangerine Glaze
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. We escaped to a secluded cabin in Tennessee outside of Gatlinburg. It was a wonderfully quiet and uneventful Christmas. We ate at lots of great restaurants, and I came back with some wonderful recipe ideas. We also got to see snow for the first time in years. We [...]
Buttery Sugar Christmas Cutout Cookies
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
This is a delicious buttery sugar cookie that is soft and chewy, perfect for your cutout Christmas cookies. You can decorate them with a simple powdered sugar frosting tinted with your favorite Christmas colors and sprinkle them with fun candy sprinkles. This is my little toddler enjoying his cookie. He helped with the kneading the [...]
Drunken Fruit Cake
Sunday, December 13th, 2009
This is the best fruitcake you will ever have. This recipe has been slightly adapted from the Alton Brown free range fruitcake recipe. Erase any negative assumptions you have about fruitcake from your memory. This fruitcake is what fruitcake was meant to be. It is full of flavorful spices, juicy fruits, and delicious roasted [...]
Peanut Brittle
Friday, December 11th, 2009
One of my favorite treats as a child was peanut brittle at Christmas time. It is very easy to make. You can use different kinds of peanuts and different peanut flavor roasts (like honey roasted) in your brittle for variety. My favorite is to use different flavors of roasted peanuts. In this recipe, I used [...]
Persimmon Pudding Cake with Saffron
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
This is a perfectly delicious recipe for persimmon pudding cake with a modern twist of adding saffron. Saffron is not a spice I grew up with, but soon after trying it initially in paella, it was my new comfort food flavor. There is something about saffron that I cannot resist. I find it so comforting [...]
Pecan Pie Bars
Friday, October 30th, 2009
This is the most delicious dessert. Its not too sweet, and filled with pecan goodness. Its a quick and easy dessert that could also be made with roasted walnuts. This recipe was sent to me by my friend Jim. Its an old recipe, that I have modified a bit. These pecan bars have the texture [...]
The Elmo Red Velvet Cake
Saturday, October 24th, 2009
This is my son’s second birthday cake. It is the most delicious red velvet cake, filled with a cream cheese frosting, and then covered outside in a traditional buttercream frosting. I used a Wilton character pan for the Elmo face, and a 12 inch cake pan for the base. I used a hair/grass decorator tip [...]
Cookie Monster Cake
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
This is the first post that I started my food blog with. I wanted to repost it today, because yesterday was my little one’s second birthday. This was his first birthday cake. We had a traditional large first birthday party and lots of food and goodies at his party. This year was much more low [...]
Roasted Pumpkin Pie and Giveaway
Monday, October 19th, 2009
Have you ever made a real homemade pumpkin pie? One with a homemade crust and an actual pumpkin? I hadn’t, I had only grew up with the typical pumpkin pie crust in the aluminum plate, and the famous pumpkin puree in a can. While this way makes a very tasty pumpkin pie, it in no [...]
Chewy Molasses Spice Cookies
Sunday, October 11th, 2009
I am so happy to share with you all that I was invited to be a guest food blogger at ModCloth. ModCloth is an online store filled with retro indie design and vintage fashion. There you will find the most adorable pieces. On my guest blog piece, I shared this recipe for molasses cookies, [...]
Apple Galette
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
This apple galette is an easy, delicious dessert that is very fast. A galette is a very forgiving free form tart. It is classic and elegant, comforting and rustic. Its a classic French country dessert. You get all the delicious parts of an apple pie, with none of the fuss. My favorite part of [...]
Coconut Cake with 7-Minute Frosting and Giveaway
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
This coconut cake is packed with coconut goodness. When I woke up this morning, my whole downstairs still smelled like wonderful coconut. There is nothing that I love more than a great coconut cake. I have to admit, I did not make this, my husband did! This is my birthday cake. I [...]
Chocolate Cobbler
Monday, September 21st, 2009
Chocolate cobbler is one of the easiest to make and most decadent chocolate desserts. It is a super moist chocolate cake like brownie floating on top of rich hot chocolate sauce. It is the perfect dessert with homemade vanilla ice cream. And did I mention it was low fat! It only has 2 tablespoons of [...]
Cocoa Brownies
Saturday, September 5th, 2009
Nothing is more comforting than fresh from the oven brownies. I use to make them only from a box mix, and tried many different recipes before adapting this one to my taste. This recipe is adapted from Alton Brown cocoa brownies. If you do not prefer nuts in your brownies, they can easily be omitted. [...]
Mochaccino Cake
Monday, July 20th, 2009
This was my husband’s birthday cake. My husband adores coffee and chocolate, so I had to combine the two in this delicious birthday cake. This is a super moist devil’s food cake with kahlua ganache topping, and coffee flavored butter-cream frosting.
Blueberry Lemon Buckle
Sunday, July 5th, 2009
This is a delicious recipe for lemon blueberry buckle. Blueberries are in season and very sweet. They are very nutritious and bursting with antioxidants. It is a perfect recipe for all those sweet in season blueberries. I came up with this recipe after researching several. It turned out really tasty, light and not too sweet. [...]
Chocolate Pecan Cookies
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
This is a super chocolaty delicious cookie. The toasted pecans compliment the rich chocolate cookie very well. I made these for my family and they disappeared very quickly. I am a pecan lover. My Granny had pecan trees on her property, and every year we would gather as many as we could, minus the ones [...]
Colorful Easter Cupcakes
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
I made these cupcakes this past Easter. They were as delicious they were pretty. I have tried many ways for simple chocolate or yellow cake,and I always go back to my Granny’s method, which is to add an extra egg and a box of instant pudding mix. This method will achieve the most moist cake [...]
