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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 […]

Cookies

Brown Butter Banoffee Chocolate Chip Cookies

These Brown Butter Banoffee Chocolate Chip Cookies are a great combination of banana and coffee mixed together into a moist and tender brown butter chocolate chip cookie. Every week we buy two large bunches of bananas. Every once in a while we have one or two left over. They start to get a multitude of […]

Cupcakes

Strawberry Cupcakes

These Strawberry Cupcakes are the perfect summer dessert. They are moist and tender and are loaded with strawberry flavor. It’s a delicious fun way to serve up a strawberry treat. To me, strawberries are the perfect fruit. They are sweet and juicy and have intense flavor. I have always loved strawberries. Even as a little […]

Cakes

Blackberry Lemon Coffee Cake

If your looking for a great summer treat then this Blackberry Lemon Coffee Cake is the perfect choice. It is light and fluffy and full of great summer flavor. I really enjoy the flavors of summer. Maybe I’m just partial because I love the warmer weather but you have to admit the light, bright flavors […]