A collection of easy, delicious dessert recipes including cookies, cakes, pies, tarts, fruit desserts, puddings, custards and confections. Got butter?! You’re gonna’ need it.
Somehow apple pie has become a symbol of appreciation. The simple act of being grateful for what you DO have brings forward more to be grateful for, thus the attitude of gratitude Apple Gogi Berry Pie.
One last kick at summer, a simple, elegant execution for the last of the season’s peaches with this Peach Basil Goat Cheese Galette. The beauty of a gallette is it’s rustic, rough appeal. Even those ‘pasty-challenged’ can manage a gallete and do it well.
This is a cake that takes time, patience and effort. Therefore I only make my Double Dark Chocolate Raspberry Cake for those who will not just appreciate, but worship it. It is only fitting for one of nature’s most perfect foods.
Strawberry season. Ripe for Canada Day festivities, warm evenings and summer barbecues. This cool, seasonal White Chocolate Strawberry Kiwi Soup is a make ahead dessert that is at once, simple, elegant and sure to impress.
This could very well entice a leprechaun into exchanging his pot of gold for a slice of chocolate sin. Chocolate Irish Whiskey Cake; rich, dark chocolate cake – moist, not too sweet, with a bite of good, clean whiskey and a hint of walnut. A very ‘grown up’ brownie.
A lesson in French Cuisine, my introduction to beignets. “So… it’s like a doughnut?” “MAIS NON” says Chef B “it’s like a FRENCH doughnut.” Beignets de Carnival, his Grandmother’s recipe.
There is something decidedly seasonal about ginger cookies. The temperature drops and the snow flies and suddenly I want to bake something sweet and spicy. Cue Ginger Sparkle Cookies…
On the back steps of the kitchen, in the tropical paradise of an idyllic atoll off Dangriga, Belize; Phillip Matinez shares a family favorite, Sweet Potato Pudding Recipe (known in Belize as “Pone”). It became a favorite of those of us paddling for pleasure with Island Expeditions in the turquoise waters of the Caribbean.
In my first year as an Innkeeper I began a tradition that became a trademark in my bed & breakfast rooms – bedside cookies. While guests were out enjoying the evening, I would slip into their room with a plate of warm oatmeal cookies, straight from the oven.
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Food professional and former innkeeper, this is where I play with food. I believe food (and LIFE) doesn’t have to be complicated, to be good.
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