For his birthday, Sweet Tooth Luc had one request: a smores cake. There’s nothing that kid loves more than roasting marshmallows and smashing them between chocolate and graham crackers.
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Category Archives: dessert
Cranberry Oat Bars
Every year at Thanksgiving I look forward to making these bars with the leftover cranberry sauce. I even buy an extra bag of cranberries just to be sure that I have enough leftovers!
Side note: I’ve been thinking about my resolutions for this year, and I’m really having a hard time setting goals or aspirations, but as I sat down to write this post, the one thought I had was that I want to make more of these bars this year. So there’s that.
Continue readingHarvest Cake with Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting
It’s been at least a decade since I made this cake. I got the original recipe from The Kitchn, and that old printed copy on has been folded up and used as a bookmark in my cookbooks for these past 10 years.
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Have you gotten a matcha latte at the local coffee shop and loved it? Want to skip the lines and make your own matcha drinks at home? We’ve rounded up two delicious drinks and one dessert option, and as you’ll see, we’re not purists. These are our favorite delicious and simple uses for matcha powder.
Continue readingSeasonal Eats : Spring Foraging
A sampling of some of our favorite previously-published spring recipes.
Stinging Nettle Pesto (perfect with homemade gnocchi)
Butter Walnut Snacking Cake
Today we’re sharing another recipe from this fantastic book. We also made a powdered donut cake and, well, no one sneak bites of that one without powdered sugar down their shirt!
Signs that you may have found a keeper of a recipe:
Continue readingFat Tuesday Donut Cake
We know that there’s an “official” Donut Day, no, wait, there are actually TWO donut days! But when we were growing up, Fat Tuesday was celebrated with donuts and called Donut Day. We like to keep that tradition going. Sometimes we make fried or baked donuts, but this year, we’re celebrating with a donut cake.
Continue readingRice Pudding
Cinnamon is our ingredient of the season. You can find our full archive of cinnamon posts here.
When I think of comforting cinnamon desserts, rice pudding often comes to mind. Granted, cinnamon is not a key ingredient in the recipe, but we always top our rice pudding with a sprinkle of ground cinnamon.
I’m a huge fan of eating the pudding straight from the pot when it’s ready, having some from dessert, and then having it again for breakfast, but you do you.
Rice Pudding
This is the recipe that we grew up eating. It’s a boiled pudding, as opposed to the baked variety. And we like to keep it simple, no raisins please! And while this isn’t the fanciest of desserts, if serving it to guests, it’s always fun to elevate the experience with fancy dishes and spoons.
- 1/2 cup rice
- 3 cups water
- 2 cups milk, separated
- 1 can evaporated milk
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 egg
- 1 Tbsp cornstarch
- 3/4 cup sugar
- cinnamon
- nutmeg
Bring the water to a boil. Add the rice and cook for 20 minutes or until the water is gone.
In a large pot combine the 1 cup of milk, evaporated milk, vanilla, and sugar. Beat the egg and cornstarch into the remaining cup of milk and add it to the pot. Add the cooked rice, warm over medium heat, stirring constantly until it boils. Boil for 3 minutes.
Cool and serve with a sprinkling of ground cinnamon and nutmeg.
Cooky Cinnamon Refrigerator Cookies
This recipe comes from Betty Crocker’s Cooky Book. Yes, cooky, not cookie!
I picked up a pristine copy of this book at our favorite local coffee shop, Bamse, in our hometown of Shamokin. They are located in an old church, are dog friendly, sell used books, and have the motto “do only good”. Could there be anything better?
No, nothing could be better. Now do some good by baking these cookies for your neighbor.
Continue readingApple Crisp
Cinnamon is our ingredient of the season. You can see our full archive of cinnamon recipes here and some more apple recipes here. This year we’ve been running a Waste Less Wednesday highlight. This week I’m here to remind you to not waste a good (or bad!) apple when you find one. The apples used for this crisp were buggy, but the bug-free bits were so amazingly delicious. It was definitely worth the time to trip them up and turn them into a delicious dessert.
Forget pumpkin spice season, in our house fall is apple crisp season!
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