Dessert

Cookies

Oatmeal Carrot Walnut Breakfast Cookies

These Oatmeal Carrot Walnut Breakfast Cookies are perfect for those hectic mornings. I know that cookies and breakfast don’t seem to go together but these cookies are chock full of healthy ingredients , like high fiber oatmeal, ground flax seeds and walnuts that are loaded with omega 3’s, carrots which are beneficial to your sight […]

Cakes, Dessert

Carrot cake With Cream Cheese Icing

I don’t know why but every year around spring I get a yearning for some moist and delicious carrot cake, and not any old carrot cake. Years ago I found a recipe that I absolutely loved. It made a super moist cake and the cream cheese icing was to die for. When making my latest […]

Cookies

Stuffed Carrot Cake Cookies

You know when you are craving a slice of carrot cake but you don’t want to go through the trouble of making a whole cake? That is where these cookies come in. They have all the great flavors of a sweet spicy carrot cake transformed into a cookie. Now, I know that your thinking “ […]

Tarts

Pear Almond Tart

You know when your having company and you want to serve something that will wow your guests? Well these Pear Almond Tarts are what you need for such an occasion. With there sweet, ripe, juicy pears nestled on a flaky crust with chopped almonds in between,they make the perfect end to a meal. Best of […]

Cookies

Blueberry Almond Breakfast Cookie

You know those mornings when you barely have time to brush your teeth, never mind sit down to a breakfast with eggs and toast. I have had many of those. Or how about when its mid morning and you just need something to get you through to lunch, and even after school, when your kids […]

Cakes

Upside Down Blood Orange Cake

Every year around late Winter to early Spring I have bought Blood Oranges. My family has always loved them. With their rich reddish orange color and their sweetness, they have always been a real hit in my house. Usually they only last a day or two, so I always buy extra so that maybe I […]

Cookies

Tart Cherry Chocolate Chip Breakfast Cookie

Now I don’t know about your family but I know my family is always rushing out of the house in the morning. Now most of the time we try to sit down at the table and have a nice breakfast of either eggs, or maybe a bowl of oatmeal but that isn’t always possible. On […]

Dessert

Chocolate Espresso Truffles

Every once in a while I get a real craving for something decadent. Something rich and creamy. Something that brings quilt once you eat it, or not. The only thing that fits those requirements for me is chocolate. These Chocolate Espresso Truffles are the perfect treat to sooth those cravings. These truffles are dipped in […]

Cookies

Chocolate Amaretti Cookies

Growing up in an Italian household, Amaretti cookies were a common thing to see on our holiday table. Whenever I make them it brings back memories of seeing my parents and grandparents sitting at our long dinning room table drinking espresso from little demitasse cups while we as kids would run around, stopping every once […]

Cookies

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

For my kids, their was nothing better then coming home from a long day at school to the smell of Oatmeal Raisin Cookies baking. With their crispy exterior and their soft chewy centers, I could always get them to smile no matter how hard their day was. When I baked these the other day, my […]