My family will almost never eat vegetables. And when they will eat them, there’s a very short list of which ones they’ll eat. When I first heard about the trend of hiding vegetables in other foods through purees I got…
Pistachio Lemon Bars with Gingersnap Crust
I mentioned in my lemon curd post that I’d come up with a lemon bar idea, only I promised it a week later. A month later’s the same thing, right? Trust me, it’s worth the wait. When Martha Stewart published…
Candy Bar Cheesecake
I think I might have married an evil genius. After years of pestering him to get a hobby, he takes up baking. Out of all the baking he’s tried his favorite thing to make is cheesecake. And now he decides…
Recipe: Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Other than my own chocolate cake, I’m not really big on them. For my birthday I usually request a Dairy Queen ice cream cake. Those crunchy bits, with the chocolate caramel…..excuse me. I wandered off for a second. For snacking,…
Recipe: Lemon Curd
We are famous for making our signature lemon curd and hot fudge sauces every Christmas to pass out to neighbors and friends. We have given this recipe out so many times I can’t believe I haven’t shared it here yet.…
Recipe: Banana Meringue Tart
I have been bugging Bear to make me a banana cream pie ever since he started baking. But since he’s much more of a chocolate fan, it kept getting pushed to the back of the line. Until he found some…
Recipe: Bear’s Chocolate and Raspberry Mousse Cake
At the beginning of the summer Bear and I had this cake that we haven’t been able to get out of our heads. It was a sponge cake layered with three different versions of chocolate mousse, and the effect was…
Recipe: Fluffy Sugar Cookies with Buttercream Frosting
Bear’s favorite dessert in the entire universe is the humble sugar cookie. But as most people are with things they love so much, he is filled with very passionate opinions about it. It has to be thick, and it has…
Chocolate Pot du Creme
Whenever Bear and I have to travel for business, we take full advantage of the experience and eat at restaurants we couldn’t quite rationalize eating at on our own budget. At one of those restaurants we splurged for dessert and…
Chocolate Pumpkin Cream Cheese Brownies
In my house, we have big debates over the proper consistency of a brownie. Bear feels passionately that they should be dense and chewy. I love a fluffy cake like brownie. The one thing we can come together on is…