Dessert
Black Raspberry Frappé
Make this yummy black raspberry frappé at home in minutes—with only a few ingredients—to celebrate summer. Whether it’s taking time to read a new novel, hanging poolside with your kids, or enjoying a BBQ with friends, we like how you party! This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #FrappeYourWay #CollectiveBias One of my favorite things about summertime is the excuse to slow things down because of hot weather and fewer activities on the calendar. If I were smart, I wouldn’t wait for a seasonal excuse to relax our schedules, but we all know that’s not as easy as it seems…
Peanut Butter Cookies With Cocoa
These yummy peanut butter cookies have only five ingredients, including just the right hint of cocoa, and take fewer than fifteen minutes to make from start to finish. Sometimes a craving hits at eight o’clock in the evening, when it’s too late to rally and head out to find dessert because: a) you’re old now, and b) you’re not pregnant, and c) you might already be in your pajamas. It’s times like these when I peel myself off the couch, take ten paces into the kitchen, and scour the pantry and fridge Chopped-style to try and figure out how to whip up something sweet in a minimal amount of time. This…
Tiramisu
This is a guest post by Susan Conley. After getting your fill of pizza and pasta, the best way to cap off an Italian dining experience is to eat tiramisu. This is a favorite Italian dessert literally means “lift me up.” It’s a dessert that you will love even if you are not fond of coffee. And it will really perk you up after enjoying a sumptuous meal. What is tiramisu? Tiramisu is a dessert is made of ladyfingers soaked in coffee and layered with mascarpone cheese, whipped cream and liqueur. With its fantastic blend of coffee, cocoa, cheese, and liqueur, it’s not surprising why tiramisu is one of the…
Peppermint Sugar Cookie Bars
These peppermint sugar cookie bars are a breeze to make and have a fun candy *crunch* from the fresh and flavorful peppermint baking chips! This post was sponsored by Nellie’s®. Growing up, we devoted an entire Saturday in December to baking Christmas cookies. It was kind of a “girls’ day” with extended family, hosted by my grandmother, with my sister, mom, aunt and cousins. We filled cookie tins to give to friends and neighbors and also brought a healthy bounty home to enjoy ourselves. I mean, how could we not? Mmm… They were filled with chocolate and vanilla pinwheels, snowball cookies, chocolate chip cookies, and — of course — sugar…
Bloomin’ Baked Apples from The Gunny Sack
About a year ago there was a “Tasty” style video making the rounds that had everyone, EVERYONE, drooling. It involved apples, butter (lots and lots of butter), cinnamon, sugar, caramel, and a glorious 25 minutes of baking until everything oozed together into baked apple cinnimon goodness. Bloomin’ baked apples, to be exact. I’m not sure what’s better, the caramelized cinnamon sugar syrup that formed on the baked apples, or the melty butter pecan ice cream I dolloped on top. I thought it was probably a safe bet to say that the whole shebang was pretty amazing. And, like many “Tasty” inspired videos, you can’t not watch once it starts. When I finally…
Raspberry Cakes
Raspberry cakes with a lime glaze are a perfect not-too-sweet dessert treat! For a few years I was part of a book club group that met just about every month at a girlfriend’s house. It was fabulous! We were all good about actually reading the month’s book (at least most of the time, unless we picked a real snoozer). Yes, really! Our book club wasn’t just a front for drinking wine, despite many side-eye glances and smirks from suspecting spouses. We’d chat about the story, what we loved, what we hated, what surprised us. And the non-reader(s) were fully aware that spoilers were imminent, a risk knowingly accepted by not having…
The New York Times Chocolate Chip Cookies
I recently “tried” The New York Times chocolate chip cookies recipe. That is, I virtually tried it. Wait. Wait. Not virtually as in almost. Virtually, as in… My sister (who’s in New York) messaged me (I’m in Maryland) that she was trying a new chocolate chip cookies recipe. She shared the link to said chocolate chip cookies recipe, and then—after drooling a bit—I promptly asked her to photo-document the whole thing so that I could share them with you, dear readers, for the real life, “Yeah, but how good are they really?” Because, as we all know, there are often recipes and food photos that look terribly delicious, and don’t always pan out…
Peach Ice Cream
There’s nothing I love more than peach cobbler in the summertime, except for maybe blackberry cobbler or blueberry cobbler or strawberry cobbler or… You get my drift. The thing about peaches more than any other fruit though, is that they screeeeeeeam summer, big time. Like, late, lazy, almost-back-to-school summer. After a recent local haul, I felt like I had to make something in addition to a cobbler. To go with the cobbler. I mean, peach cobbler’s pretty darn good on its own … it’s SO much better with a delicious scoop of creamy ice cream on the side. I scoured my normal slew of chefs to find a recipe I wanted to use for inspiration,…
