dessert

White Chocolate Mascarpone Cheesecake with Salted Caramel and Chocolate Topping

They say it’s your birthday. Well, Happy Birthday to You! Today’s post is part of a birthday surprise for Brandy, a young (oh yes, you are!) blogging friend. I was asked to participate in a Virtual Surprise Party for Brandy’s 30th birthday. You may know her as Nutmeg Nanny (two guesses on that name and [...]

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Cranberry and Croissant Bread Pudding with Champagne Zabaglione Sauce

My grandparents are from all over; I’m a mixture of German, Scandinavian , English and Irish. So would someone please tell me why I love all things Italian? My theory is that a female in the family made a clandestine visit to Italy once, came home after a fling with a handsome Italian man and [...]

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Cranberry Cheesecake with a Gingersnap and Cranberry Crust

After letting my love of cranberries be known before Thanksgiving with Cranberry Liqueur, Cosmopolitan Cranberry Sauce and Turkey Sandwiches with Cranberry Sauce and Cream Cheese, I thought I would take a break, or rather, give my readers one. Me too I guess but still, after doing cocktails and more savory offerings I had a craving [...]

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Toffee Apple Bars with Caramel Frosting

A friend I’ve met on Twitter asked if I would do a guest post for her blog after the birth of her second child. How could I refuse? I met Kate and her blog Food Babbles when we both started participating in Abby Dodge’s #baketogether, an initiative by the lovely Abby that allows a group [...]

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Lemon Cheesecake – Another Best, Really.

After another week of making what I consider the ‘best of’ something this month I have to wonder what has come over me. I did not set out to do a ‘Best of’ series but it’s happened nonetheless. Maybe it’s the bit of melancholy I feel in the fall that has me thinking of foods [...]

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Upside Down Sweet Cherry Cake

I’m doing a guest post today for my friend Anuradha and her blog Baker Street. We’ve become acquainted on Twitter and I was delighted when she asked me to do something for her blog. I love seeing her work through her baking adventures and I was most impressed with the wealth of information she put [...]

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Spiked Peach and Plum Crisp. Or Crumble…but I’m not a Cobbler!

What’s the story with this? There is no story. I simply had a whole bunch of peaches and plums in the fruit bowl on my counter the night before last that I realized were PERFECTLY ripe. As in I either eat a half dozen plums and four big peaches for breakfast the next day (I [...]

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Creamy Peanut Butter Pie – A Pie for Mikey

The food blogging community is huge; thousands upon thousands of bloggers and in the years I’ve been involved I’ve built relationships with people in my own town, in cities all over our nation and in countries where I never expected to know anyone personally. This week I was reminded of how connected we really are, [...]

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Strawberry and Lemon Cake with Lemon Glaze for #BakeTogether

This was a good week for baking. The past couple of weekends have seen me on the road to Snowmass and wrapping up the Goaterie challenge I did with La Fuji Mama at the same time so I absolutely craved something simple from my kitchen. No real deadline, no interviews, just bake something with my [...]

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