Sweet rolls filled with homemade spiced apple butter and frosted with maple cream cheese icing. These apple butter sweet rolls are a new way to get your apple a day. The rolls are not overly sweet and have a bit of tang from the cream cheese icing. I developed this recipe to use the apple […]
Fresh cranberries baked in a fluffy almond ricotta cake with a hint of orange. This cake is fast becoming my new favorite cake recipe. It is light and fluffy and has lots of flavor. It is simple to make, and the recipe can be easily adapted. For example, the cake could be made into lemon […]
Blonde brownie crust layered with vanilla cheesecake, spiced pumpkin pie, and pecan streusel. For the past couple of weeks, I have been thinking about using blonde brownies as a crust. Blondies are pretty neutrally flavored and can go with just about anything. I was really undecided about what to make until I discovered some leftover […]
Six layer spiced apple date cake with caramel and cream cheese frostings, garnished with toasted pecans and caramel candy apples. I look at a lot of food photos. Lately, I have been seeing these beautiful apple cakes with the whole caramel or candy apples on top. The photos are amazing and they make me want […]
Chewy pumpkin oatmeal cookies sandwiched around an Italian meringue, cream cheese filling. When I was a kid, I loved prepackage oatmeal cream pies. Chewy molasses oatmeal cookies with a mysterious marshmallowy filling. Even as I began to get older, they were one of my go-to snack foods when I needed a sugar fix. But nowadays, […]
Sweet bread, baked in a brown sugar banana custard, with toasted pecans, and a hint of cinnamon. Bread pudding is a great way to use up extra bread that is lying around the house. It can be made with just about any kind or combination of bread: croissants, hamburger buns, Danishes, or banana bread. While […]
