Pears can be a wonderful fruit to bake with and they’re featured in some of my favorite fall desserts, including Double Crust Pear Pie and Honey and Cinnamon Roasted Pears. This Sticky Maple Pear Cake is yet another fantastic option when you find yourself with a few extra …
Madeleines are one of the most perfect cookies to pair with with coffee or tea. This is probably because the cookies are actually a lot more like cakes than they are like cookies, which means that the cookie crumbs soak up all the flavor of your favorite beverage as you nibble them …
Palmiers are one of my favorite cookies to make. They’re easy, delicious and always a crowd pleaser. I sometimes make them with homemade puff pastry, but I often make them with store-bought pastry for a quick palmier fix. Using frozen, you can churn out these hard-to-resist treats in no time at all. …
When visions of sugar plums dance in your head, you’re probably picturing juicy plums coated in sugar to give the a holiday sparkle. Unfortunately, that isn’t what sugar plums are. Sugar plums are, essentially, a type of candy where layers of sugar are built up around a central “seed.” Traditionally, …
Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are one of my all-time favorites. The buttery, nutty oatmeal cookie dough always seems like the perfect place for a generous amount of chocolate chips – and I don’t mind if there are a few nuts thrown in for texture, either. Thanks to the whole grain oatmeal, oatmeal …
Gingerbread men (and gingerbread ladies) are one of my favorite types of cookies to bake during the holiday season. That being said, I don’t always use my gingerbread man cookie cutters on gingerbread cookie dough. I used them on a wide variety of cut out cookies because they’re so much fun to decorate. …
Peanut butter cookies are a classic, not just because they’re delicious, but because their salty-sweet tastiness is unmatched by other types of cookies. One of the things that I enjoy about peanut butter cookies is that they can come in so many different forms, including both very crisp and very chewy styles. These …
Creme brulee is a dessert that many of us only enjoy in restaurants, but the delicate custards are fun and simple to make – well worth treating yourself to a set of ramekins, so you can make them any time. This Maple Syrup Creme Brulee has a caramelized sugar crust sitting atop a …
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