Dessert is my favorite topic when it comes to food. I’ve been baking for nearly 40 years – serving not only my family, but multitudes of friends and customers of my baking business. A homemade treat is a gift of love for sure. After all, who doesn’t like a little something sweet at the end of a meal? Or for no reason at all! Dessert should be both beautiful and delicious. It should appeal to your visual sense, and the smell should be nothing less than heavenly! This is my goal when I create my amazing cakes, cupcakes, tarts, and more decadent sweet treats. Dessert is made for sharing. I invite you to try these recipes, and create your own precious memories!
I love pecans – they were my Dad’s favorite nut. I can remember him sitting in his armchair, cracking open shelled pecans with his nut cracker. If you love pecans, you will love adding this recipe to your list of “favs”. It’s in bar-form, so super easy to prepare. 1 […]
This is my first Harley cake – made for my husband’s birthday. I’m not posting a recipe for this one – since it’s really all about the design. You can make any kind of cake or filling for this. For the cake on the bottom, I made an 8″ chocolate […]
These muffins are definitely “bakery style” – bold, beautiful, moist, and delicious! They combine the flavors of both lemon and almond, plus the crunch of poppy seeds – into one amazing muffin. Recipe for LEMON ALMOND POPPY SEED MUFFINS Makes 12 regular-sized muffins. Line a muffin pan with paper liners. […]
Pecan pie – in the form of a muffin? Well, it’s true! These little bites taste just like pecan pie. They have the buttery, caramel taste of pecan pie, with lots of pecans, a moist, gooey center, and crisp edges that make it easy to hold and bite into. There […]
This amazing cheesecake will be DESSERT at my holiday dinner this weekend! It actually took me 3 tries (over the last few weeks) to get it exactly the way I wanted it. That means perfection, right? Well at least it’s perfect for me! While I love peppermint bark, I didn’t […]
Everyone that knows me knows that I bake all the time – but for Christmas, it’s all about cookies!! I typically start baking cookies after Thanksgiving, and store them in the freezer (or in the garage in tightly covered containers, if the weather stays cold). They will last right up […]
I make these adorable, delicious, and QUICK candies every year at Christmas time. They are a hit every where I take them, and my kids and grand kids love them as well! This year, I thought i would coat 1/2 of these little peanut butter balls with chocolate and the […]
It’s almost 2020, so I thought it was time to create a new design for my most popular cake – my Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake. It blends a moist chocolate cake, with a peanut butter cream filling. The original cake was covered in chocolate frosting. The revisions I made include […]
I have a very old cookbook, published in 1979, called “Christmas Cookies and Candies”. I don’t even remember where I found it, but it has recipes for a lot of European cookies. This made it rather unique to my collection. There is one cookie in particular that I’ve been making […]
Pecan pie – this is definitely my favorite pie as I was growing up. It was on the table for Thanksgiving, and often again at Christmas dinner. I turned this idea into a tart – since a tart is sort of like a pie, only more elegant. It sort of […]
How sweet are these? I say VERY! A chocolate and vanilla marble cupcake, with green-tinted cream cheese buttercream, topped with an adorable Hershey’s Kiss and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Christmas tree!! If you have kids – get them involved in this project for sure! This recipe makes about 12 cupcakes. […]
This cake was inspired by a “brush-stroke” technique for cake decorating. Some will look at a cake like this, and say “I can’t do that” – but this cake went on my “to-do” list immediately! For me, it was an invitation to try something new, and beautiful! Let me know […]
OCCASION: Thanksgiving dinner INSPIRATION: Freezing cold temperatures in Chicago in November – AKA a snowman! DESIGN IDEA: A painted cake, that would bring my snowman to life. A snowman cake is on my menu for our Thanksgiving Day family dinner. That is mostly due to the FREEZING temperatures we have […]
I had 3 large Honey Crisp apples, and dough for a single pie crust in my frig – with a few additional ingredients, I pulled together this rustic apple tart in 90 minutes! It’s not overly sweet, has a nice crispy crust, and plenty of apple juices. Try a drizzle […]
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