Author: Brenda

Cookies

Dutch Apple Pie Cookies

These Dutch Apple Pie Cookies are the best of both worlds. They have the flavors of a sweet apple pie but are the size and shape of a cookie. Imagine, a round of pie crust topped with diced cinnamon coated apples and coved with a sweet buttery crumb topping, but now imagine that in a […]

Pancakes

Cinnamon Apple Pancakes With Warm Sautéed Apples

These Cinnamon Apple Pancakes With Sautéed Apples are the perfect breakfast on a cool fall morning. The pancakes are fluffy and loaded with sweet tender apples and flavored with spicy cinnamon, then topped with sweet caramelized apples. It’s like a taste of fall in every bite. As autumn rolls around and there is a slight […]

Recipes

Baked Eggplant Parmesan

If your looking for comfort food, then this Baked Eggplant Parmesan is perfect for you. With its breaded baked eggplant, rich tomato sauce and melted mozzarella cheese, you will get a warm and cozy feeling with every bite. Growing up in an Italian house, there was never a shortage of good comfort food, like the […]

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 […]