Roasted Fruit in Maple Brown Butter Sauce Sweet, tender summer fruit roasted in a rich brown butter maple syrup sauce that’s perfect for drizzling over ice cream or buttery pound cake. When you live in a climate with long winters, one of the best things about Spring and Summer is fresh fruit. In Colorado,…
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Sinfully Rich Chocolate Devil’s Food Cake
Perfect Dark Chocolate Devil’s Food Cake {Or Cupcakes!} This sinfully dark chocolate Devil’s Food Cake is so obscenely rich and fudgy that it elevates chocolate cake to a whole new level of decadence. Being bad never felt so good. This is the only chocolate cake recipe you’ll ever need. It’s so rich and fudgy that it…
Intensely Flavorful, Super Moist Spice Cake
The Perfect Spice Cake {Or, cupcakes} This is my idea of the perfect Spice Cake. It’s super moist and packed with the rich flavors of cinnamon, cardamom, allspice, cloves, nutmeg, and ginger. Dark brown sugar, applesauce, yogurt and plenty of vanilla add even MORE flavor, while also keeping it moist and extremely tender. When…
Black and White Cookies
New York Black and Whites New York Black and White Cookies are cake-like cookies covered in both vanilla and chocolate fondants. They are large and dramatic, with lots of vanilla and a hint of lemon. For decades, Black and White Cookies have been a staple New York City Bakeries. However, having lived my entire life in…
Apple Cobbler with Gooey Brown Sugar Cookie Crumble
Skillet Apple Cobbler with a Gooey, Crispy, Crumbly, Brown Sugar Cookie Topping Saucy apples coated with cinnamon, cloves, and brown sugar and baked under a sugar cookie topping that’s a delicious combination of chewy, crispy, crumbly, and gooey. I can think of few things more delicious than warm apple cobbler, freshly baked and still warm,…
Lemon Berry Snack Cake
Little squares of berry snack cake with tart lemon icing Soft, fluffy squares of vanilla butter cake, flavored with lemon and berries and slathered with sweet-tart lemon icing. Sprinkles recommended. Plate and fork not required. I love the very idea of “snack” cake. Aside from the kind of little cakes you can buy at any gas…
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…
Gingerbread Cake with Sugared Cranberries
Gingerbread Cake with Lemon Glaze and Sugared Cranberries This gingerbread cake is super moist and filled with the flavors of ginger, cinnamon, allspice, and molasses. The tart lemon glaze and sugared cranberries are the perfect compliment to the richness of the cake. If you like gingerbread that’s rich and flavorful, with a potent level of…
Chocolate Peppermint Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Buttercream
Mini Chocolate Cupcakes with Peppermint Cream Cheese Buttercream I am totally head-over-heels in love with these little two-bite chocolate peppermint cupcakes. Rich and fudgy chocolate cupcakes covered in peppermint spiked cream cheese buttercream with a fun candy cane swirl. They are, in my mind, exactly what Christmas should taste like. Let me tell you something about…
Frosted Brown Butter Citrus Shortbread Christmas Cookies
My All-Time Favorite Decorated Christmas Cookies These are, without a doubt, the BEST tasting decorated Christmas Cookies I’ve ever eaten. Brown butter citrus shortbread is delicious all on it’s own – buttery, not overly sweet, and laced with the subtle flavors of orange, lemon, and lime. Dark and white chocolate fondants are easy to work…
Apple Cake with Cider Buttercream and Chocolate Ganache
Apple Cider Spice Cake with Cider Buttercream, Chocolate Ganache, and Apple Roses This Apple cake is absolutely bursting with warm apple flavor thanks to concentrated Apple Cider Syrup, shredded sour apples, and a touch of cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice. Apple Cider Buttercream delivers even more apple flavor and a thick, velvety layer of Dark Chocolate Ganache…
Eggnog Pots de Creme {Little pots of eggnog custard}
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.)…
Chocolate Mint Brownies
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…
Cherry Almond Rugelach
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…
Double Chocolate Kiss Cookies
Chocolate Cookies with a Chocolate Kiss Center These delicious little chocolate shortbread cookies have a surprise chocolate kiss in the center. š 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…
Mini Cranberry Bundt Cakes with Lemon Glaze
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…
Spritz Wreath Cookies
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….
Cranberry Orange Dark Chocolate Biscotti
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…
Lemon Ricotta Olive Oil Loaves
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…
Marshmallow Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
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…