Double layer sweet potato cake with coconut pecan filling and maple cream cheese frosting. Spiced sweet potato cake layers sandwiched around a brown sugar, toasted coconut filling, and covered with a tangy cream cheese frosting. This cake is very similar in taste and appearance to carrot cake. But unlike carrot cake, the sweet potatoes are […]
Creamy date caramel sandwiched between brown butter oat pecan cookies. Richly sweet toasted oat and pecan cookies with creamy bourbon date caramel. The idea for these cookies started out as being a “healthy” cookie with low sugar and low gluten. But like so much of my cooking, they ended up being the opposite. What can […]
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 […]
Homemade warm apple cider mixed with a touch of butter served with spiced rum and maple whipped cream. Also, an easy homemade apple butter recipe. This recipe is kind of like getting three-for-one. From one batch of apples, you can make spiced apple cider, hot buttered rum, and apple butter. I don’t know about you, […]
Confit duck on a bed of baby spinach with persimmons, pomegranate, maple pecans, duck cracklins, goat cheese, and bourbon mustard vinaigrette. Well, this is it, the last post in this week’s series on duck. I decided to do this series because I feel that duck is something people rarely cook at home. Some of this […]
