Eggnog Pots de Creme To properly enjoy Pots de Creme, we must all speak with our best French accent while we pretend to be somewhere in Paris drinking espresso, nibbling on cookies and savoring a melt-in-your-mouth delicious little dish of Eggnog Pots de Creme. (Do they even have eggnog in Paris? Whatever. Not the point.) My husband and I are not great at creating family traditions. We're ...
Triple Layer Chocolate Mint Brownies. Calling all chocolate and peppermint lovers! These rich chocolate brownies, topped with mint icing, bitter chocolate glaze, and chopped creme de menthe mints, are about as mint-chocolatey as you can get. I've said this before, but feel compelled to say it again: Chocolate and mint are the perfect match. Seeing as I feel this way, it's no surprise ...
Cherry Almond Rugelach Tender, flaky cream cheese dough is wrapped around tart cherry jam and roasted almonds for a cookie that's a bit like a delicious two-bite rolled up tart. I'll take one anytime, but I especially love to eat rugelach early in the morning when the house is still quiet, steaming mug of coffee in hand, cuddled under a blanket next to the Christmas Tree. The cream ...
Chocolate Cookies with a Chocolate Kiss Center These delicious little chocolate shortbread cookies have a surprise chocolate kiss in the center. 😘 My Grandma was our family's Cookie Queen. It didn't matter when you showed up, there were always cookies at her house. But she really got serious about cookie making for Christmas. Every year, we'd all receive a Christmas tin filled with ...
Bite-size Cranberry Bundt Cakes with a Tart Lemon Glaze These tiny little cranberry bundt cakes drizzled with a sweet tart lemon glaze are almost too cute to eat. Almost. Actually, not at all. I just ate four and have no qualms about going back for more. Sometimes I wonder why we relegate all things cranberry to the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Every December, coffee ...
Spritz Wreath Cookies. Buttery and tender spritz cookies originated in Germany and are typically made from little more than flour, butter, sugar and eggs. This recipe is nearly that simple, but includes a bit of cream, vanilla and almond extracts to add more flavor. If you have a cookie press, now's the time to use it. If not, a pastry bag and a star tip is all you need to create wreath ...
Cranberry Orange Dark Chocolate Biscotti Biscotti (delicious twice baked Italian cookies) packed with fresh cranberries, roasted almonds, a hint of orange, and dipped in dark chocolate. A smattering of Christmas sprinkles are fun, but optional. If you, like me, are a sucker for fruit-nut-chocolate combinations, these biscotti are right up your alley. They are appropriately crunchy (as ...
Tender Little Lemon Loaves made with Ricotta and Olive Oil These delicious little Lemon Ricotta Olive Oil Loaves are one of my favorite things to make any time of year, but even more so around the holidays. They are impossibly moist and tender, with a bright lemon flavor and sweet-tart lemon glaze. Calling All Lemon Lovers! I am all about anything ...
Chocolate Crinkle Cookie Sandwiches with Marshmallow Filling Brownie-like chocolate crinkle cookies sandwiched together with homemade marshmallow that's piped onto the cookies while still warm. These cookies are chewy, fudgy, soft and gooey, with crispy brownie edges. Unless you dislike chocolate or brownies (wha?!?!?), we can all agree that chocolate crinkle cookies are the bomb. I mean, ...
Individual Coconut Cakes frosted with Coconut Maple Buttercream These fluffy little cloud-like coconut cakes are decorated with Coconut Maple Italian Meringue Buttercream for the most adorable single-serving mini cakes ever. It's just a couple of weeks before Christmas and you can find me happily submerged in a winter wonderland of tiny white coconut cakes. And really... who doesn't want to ...
Chocolate Thumbprints with Peppermint Hot Fudge. Hello chocolate lover. Meet your new favorite cookie. Buttery chocolate thumbprint cookies filled with a dollop of peppermint spiked hot fudge and a sprinkling of crushed candy canes. If you love chocolate, these cookies are dangerously delicious. The cookie is a rich, buttery chocolate shortbread that practically melts in ...
White Chocolate Malted Shortbread Cookies filled with Halva Buttercream. Buttery shortbread cookies flavored with white chocolate and malted milk powder filled with delicious halva buttercream and drizzled with white and dark chocolate. One of my favorite cookies in the world are these little Coffee & Cream Sandwich Cookies. The mocha shortbread cookies are great on their own, ...
Mini Chai Latte Cupcakes with White Chocolate & Chai Italian Meringue Buttercream These delicious little two-bite, Mini Cupcakes are flavored with vanilla and chai, and frosted with White Chocolate & Chai Italian Meringue Buttercream. Why Mini? I've been feeling like Christmas is a bit much. There's an over exaggerated emphasis on more. Spend more, do more, eat ...
Mini Eclairs with Butterscotch Pastry Cream and Butterscotch Sauce These buttery little two-bite mini éclairs are bursting with butterscotch pastry cream and covered butterscotch sauce. Butterscotch Sauce and Pastry Cream. These little mini éclairs are stuffed with my absolute favorite pastry cream which is flavored with my absolute favorite butterscotch sauce. Both are easy ...
Individual Cranberry Pineapple Upside Down Cakes with Brown Sugar Caramel Glaze Buttery little Cranberry Pineapple Upside Down Cakes baked with pineapple slices, tart cranberry sauce, and gooey brown sugar caramel glaze. OMG. THESE CRANBERRY PINEAPPLE UPSIDE DOWN CAKES ARE SO GOOD. This recipe makes 6 little individual sized cakes. And yet, you will not see one picture in this post that ...
Soft and Chewy Vanilla Sugar Cookies with Christmas Funfetti Sprinkles. Christmas Funfetti Cookies are super soft and chewy, bursting with the flavors of butter and vanilla, and packed with Christmas funtetti sprinkles. The perfect holiday recipe for those times when you want something uncomplicated, delicious, and fun, fun, fun. With or without the funfetti sprinkles, this is my absolute ...
Tender Almond Cakes with Cranberry Orange Sauce Almond cake is one of those desserts that seems rather plain and unassuming and then blows you away with how delicious it is. The cake couldn't be simpler to make and only includes a handful of ingredients. But the finished result is both rich and elegant. I had a friend over for lunch on the day I was testing this recipe. Wanting to make ...
Bake something fun, share it with the world, and you could win a gorgeous black walnut French Rolling Pin! Thank you to all of you who participated in last month’s Bake Club Challenge and sent in pictures of your Pear Tarts! The winner has been chosen and will be announced once notified. Ready for the next challenge???? the December 2019 bake club challenge recipe: Christmas ...
