Almond Plum Cake with Fresh Plums, Almond Paste, and Amaretto This delicious Almond Plum Cake tastes like a cross between cake and fruit cobbler. It is supremely moist and almost custard-like, thanks to the soft roasted sweet plums, almond paste, and a generous amount of Amaretto liquor. This Almond Plum Cake is made from three…
Breakfast and Brunch
Sour Cream Streusel Blueberry Muffins
Soft and tender Blueberry Muffins loaded with buttery brown sugar streusel These are everything I want a blueberry muffin to be. They are light and tender, but also substantial and filling. They can be made with either fresh or frozen blueberries. They are rich and buttery, and laced with the flavors of vanilla, almond, and a…
Double Chocolate Muffins {Extra Fudgy with Vanilla Glaze}
Deep, Dark, Sinfully Chocolate Muffins – regular or mini size Hello chocolate lover. How about we start the day with chocolate? After that? Who cares. These chocolate muffins are rich and chocolaty enough to satisfy even the most dedicated chocolate lover and guaranteed to start your day in the sweetest, most delicious way. Let’s begin…
Homemade Cinnamon Rolls {Optional Overnight Rise}
Buttery Homemade Cinnamon Rolls with Cream Cheese Frosting Rich, buttery rolls with gooey swirls of cinnamon sugar, slathered in vanilla cream cheese icing. If you love the kind of cinnamon rolls that are soft and buttery, and not overly sweet, this easy recipe just might become one of your favorite morning indulgences. An Overnight Rise…
Dulce de Leche Baked French Toast with Chocolate Ganache
Dulce de Leche Baked French Toast with Streusel and Chocolate Ganache Sourdough bread baked in a rich Dulce de Leche batter, topped with buttery brown sugar and almond streusel, and served with a drizzle of chocolate ganache. Whether you serve it for breakfast, brunch, or dessert, this Dulce de Leche Baked French Toast is a deliciously luxurious…
Cinnamon Bread
Homemade Cinnamon Bread with a Gooey Cinnamon Swirl This buttery cinnamon bread, with an extra gooey cinnamon swirl is like a giant cinnamon roll that you can slice, toast, & slather with butter. My husband and I recently spent some time in Southern California with some of our closest friends. One day we found ourselves…
Apple Cinnamon Pancakes {Buttermilk and Brown Sugar Recipe}
Apple Cinnamon Pancakes with Applesauce and Buttermilk How to start your day with a breakfast that’s as warm and comforting as a bear hug from your favorite person: Cook some apples with cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and brown sugar until soft and sweet. Fold all those tender sugary apples into buttermilk pancake batter and pour it…
Strawberry Frozen Yogurt {with Orange & Lime}
Frozen Yogurt Recipe loaded with fresh fruit Made with Greek yogurt, almond milk, orange and lime juice, and a ton of fresh strawberries this Strawberry Frozen Yogurt is the perfect recipe for a healthy breakfast, snack, or dessert. Who wants to eat Frozen Yogurt for breakfast?! I do! I do! And I do. Nearly ever…
Fluffy Buttermilk Blueberry Pancakes
The Fluffiest Blueberry Pancakes After testing and tweaking a whole lotta blueberry pancake recipes, I can tell you for certain that these are the fluffiest, most melt-in-your mouth delicious pancakes I’ve ever made or eaten. We have been eating a lot of blueberry pancakes around here. For weeks. And weeks. Mostly for breakfast on the…
Apple Fritters with Maple Glaze {Overnight Recipe}
Overnight Maple Glazed Apple Fritters These are the kind of apple fritters you’d get at the very best kind of doughnut shop – soft yeast raised dough with a hint of nutmeg and orange, buttery cinnamon coated apples, and crackly maple glaze. This recipe includes instructions for letting the apple fritters rise overnight so you…
Classic {One Bowl} Banana Bread Recipe
Easy, Tried-and-True, Banana Bread Recipe This simple, one-bowl banana bread recipe is the definition of comfort food for me. It’s slightly sweet (not cloying), supremely moist and tender, and flavored with the simplicity of butter and bananas. The best part? Making the batter is as simple as throwing all the ingredients in a bowl and turning…
Apple Cinnamon Muffins with Streusel
Apple Cinnamon Muffins with Apple Butter and Streusel Tender cinnamon-spiked muffins studded with chunks of fresh apples and a gooey apple butter center, then topped with buttery brown sugar streusel. I am on an apple butter kick. I mean, it’s fall, so apples. But, after making several batches of slow cooker apple butter, I’m wanting…
Everyone’s Favorite Granola
The BEST, Have-It-On-Hand At All Times Homemade Granola We pretty much always have some of this granola in our cupboard, because if we don’t, we all get a bit cranky about it. It’s just the perfect thing to have on hand to sprinkle over yogurt in the morning, or grab a handful for that mid-afternoon…
Simple Cream Biscuits
Homemade Cream Biscuits, Hot and Ready in 20 Minutes Cream biscuits are impossibly tender, buttery and delicious, and ready to eat in about 20 minutes. I don’t know that I’ve ever met a biscuit I didn’t like, but Cream Biscuits just might be my favorite because they are melt-in-your-mouth tender and can be made, start…
Zucchini Blueberry Muffins with Oatmeal and Almonds
Zucchini Blueberry Muffins with Oatmeal, Almonds, and Brown Sugar Streusel Hearty whole wheat and oat zucchini muffins packed with more blueberries than you thought a muffin could handle, flavored with vanilla and almond extract and covered in buttery brown sugar streusel. Is there a better way to use up that extra zucchini in your garden…
Spanish Avocado Smoked Salmon Bites
Smoked Salmon Appetizers Bursting with Flavor. These little Smoked Salmon Appetizers are bursting with mind blowing amounts of flavor and guaranteed to impress. Homemade Cheddar and Chili Crackers are topped with a dollop of garlic mayonnaise, a slice of avocado, a few flakes of chili smoked salmon, and a spoonful of Chimichurri Sauce. When serving…
Blueberry Crumb Cake
Blueberry Swirl Crumb Coffee Cake. Blueberry sauce is swirled into tender butter cake and topped with a generous layer of New York style crumbs for a blueberry crumb cake that’s perfectly at home at the breakfast table, next to your afternoon mug of coffee or tea, or sliced up and served for dessert after dinner….
Cinnamon Streusel Mini-Muffins
Mini-Muffins with Cinnamon Streusel and Vanilla Glaze. These cinnamon streusel mini-muffins, spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg and covered in buttery brown sugar streusel and vanilla glaze, are adorable and jam packed with flavor, proving that the best things really do come in small packages. These bite sized bits of glazed, cinnamon sugar covered yumminess are…
Cherry Almond Muffins with Streusel
Reduced Sugar Cherry Almond Muffins with Streusel. Cherry almond muffins, bursting with cherries and brown sugar streusel, are so deliciously decadent you’ll never believe they are reduced sugar. These cherry almond muffins are the kind of thing I like to make when I really want something sweet for breakfast but want to feel like I’m…
French Cruller Doughnut Recipe
Homemade French Crullers with Honey Glaze. Homemade French Crullers, made with tender, buttery pâte à choux and dipped in sweet honey glaze, are simple enough for a lazy Sunday morning breakfast but pretty enough for a special occasion brunch. French Crullers were not in my baking plan for the week. I had intended to bake a…