Salted Caramel Cupcakes with Chocolate Bourbon Buttercream
…But first, a random update: After thirteen days of owning our first home, working on it from sunrise to sunset, spending too many dollars and …
Brown Sugar Cookies with Fleur de Sel
I’m an honest kind of gal, so here goes. I really love raw cookie dough and often find it hard not to lick the spoon. …
Orange Cheese Danish Pastry
Usually, I just have some cereal and fruit for breakfast, but on mornings when I want something warm and sweet, I’ll bake up a batch …
One Bowl Vanilla Cupcakes for Two
Did you have a nice weekend? We did. It was a mix of fun, strange and just plain laughable. Saturday was spent packing boxes in …
Chocolate, Caramel and Walnut Turtles
How old were you when you stopped receiving Easter baskets? I’m proud to say I was 18, and not an Easter goes by where I …
Lemon Cupcakes with Limoncello-Cream Cheese Frosting
When it comes to cupcakes, I’m a vanilla kind of girl. I usually just like the basic stuff – yellow cake, white frosting, sometimes sprinkles. …
Peanut Brittle
I think it’s funny that food plays a big part of so many important occasions in the world. Take, for example, ham for Easter, cakes …
Fresh Fruit Phyllo Tartlettes
There are two things I had been meaning to do for quite some time. The first was to visit the Smart & Final store that …
Brownie, Cream and Fresh Fruit Tarts
I remember my first Valentine’s Day with my husband like it was yesterday. We had been dating just five months then, and for our Saturday …
Bing Cherry Turnovers
Whenever my husband and I visit his parents in New Jersey, his mother always has Bing cherries in her fridge. She excitedly pulls out a …