Author: Brenda

Cakes

Apple Crumb Cake

If your a fan of apples and crumb cake, then you are really going to enjoy this Apple Crumb Cake. With its warm cinnamon apples and sweet crunchy crumb topping it makes the perfect fall dessert. Once September rolls around and I start to feel a slight chill in the air, my cravings for Fall […]

Donuts

Baked Apple Cider Donuts With Brown Butter Maple Glaze

These Baked Apple Cider Donuts With Brown Butter Maple Glaze are the perfect treat. They are moist and tender and loaded with great flavor. Between the reduced apple cider and the spices like cinnamon and apple pie spice then topped with that Brown Butter Maple Glaze, they have all the flavors of fall wrapped up […]

Donuts

Baked Apple Cider Donuts

These Baked Apple Cider Donuts are easy to bake and delicious to eat. They are moist and tender and loaded with flavor. They are the perfect treat on a fall day. Every year my family goes apple picking. We have been going to the same farm for years. When we go, there is always a […]

Cakes

Carrot Cake With Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting

This Carrot Cake is loaded with freshly grated carrots and warm spices then topped off with a rich Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting. It’s a simple rustic dessert that has intense flavors. This Carrot Cake just might be your new go to dessert. It is super moist and has great carrot flavor due to the […]

Recipes

Gnocchi With Garlicky Roasted Tomatoes & Shallots

Garlicky Roasted Tomatoes & Crispy Shallots give these pillowy Potato Gnocchi tons of flavor. Top it with fresh basil and Parmesan cheese and you have the perfect meal. Gnocchi to most people is a meal that you get in a restaurant. They would never think of making it at home, they think it’s too complicated, […]

Cakes

Upside Down Fig Cake

This simple Upside Down Fig Cake is the perfect end to any meal. With its caramelized figs baked into a delicate buttery almond cake that is not overly sweet. It’s a dessert that just screams fall. Every year come the end of August my fig tree is bursting with dark, plump figs that are perfect […]

Cakes

Tiramisu Loaf Cake

This Tiramisu Loaf Cake has all the great flavors of Tiramisu mixed together to form this delicious and simple cake. I love Tiramisu, with its sweet mascarpone cheese layers and its intense coffee flavor from the espresso soaked lady fingers all layered together and topped with a dusting of rich unsweetened cocoa powder. I mean […]

Pasta

Spaghetti With Raw Sauce Garlic & Basil

This Raw Sauce With Garlic and Basil is a delicious way to use those summer tomatoes. It has bright fresh flavor and is perfectly pared with spaghetti. I can remember as a kid my father tending to his prized garden tomatoes. He would come home everyday from work and go to his garden to water […]

Sides

Zucchini Galette

This Zucchini Galette is a savory rustic tart. It’s flaky crust is layered with three cheeses that are topped with crispy shallots and thinly sliced zucchini that is coated with olive oil and sprinkled with fresh herbs. This Zucchini Galette is a delicious way to make use of your summer zucchini harvest. Galette is a […]

Cookies

Old Fashion Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

These Old Fashion Oatmeal Raisin Cookies are delicious. With there crispy exterior and there soft chewy interior. They are by far one of my families favorites. I have been making these Old Fashion Oatmeal Raisin Cookies for years, they are a family favorite. In fact my kids would always say that when they would walk […]