Crème Brulee Cupcakes ~ Crème brulee nested inside a chocolate cupcake- Wow. Forget death by chocolate, how about death by cupcake. This is a killer combination. These babies were set to debut this week on the blog (as it is now) and at my girlfriend’s now cancelled ...
Salted Caramel Cheesecake Cups
Salted Caramel Cheesecake Cups ~ Nudging its way into the salted caramel craze these individual cheesecake cups are topped with a salted caramel sauce and sprinkled with some sea salt for a final touch. Seems like everywhere you look salted caramel is making its mark ...
Chocolate Cayenne Wafer Cookies
Chocolate Cayenne Wafer Cookies~ Don't be fooled by the picture. These thin, chocolaty crisp wafers are spiced with some cayenne pepper that will have your taste buds dancing to a sweet and spicy tune. I'm sure you've noticed by now I love chocolate. In ...
Mini Lemon Meringue Pie
These Mini Lemon Meringue Piesare simple tartelettes that will please both the lemon and chocolate lover with its perfect bite of lemon tartness and chocolate sweetness. I had originally planned on miniaturizing lemon tarts from Desserts by Pierre Herme ...
Rocky Ledge Bar
Rocky Ledge Bar ~ A cookie bar filled with semi-sweet chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, marshmallows, caramel candy and some brown sugar. Do your teeth hurt yet? If they do, fill those cavities and take a bite. Wow. Seriously, this cookie ...
Baking Basics: How to make tartlette shells
Basic Tartelette Shells ~ This is a fast and easy tart shell recipe that you can execute with ease. Let me start by saying, I have never found the saying, “Easy as pie” entirely accurate. I like to think the person who coined that phrase was referring to a crustless ...
Chocolate Lemon Pear Cake
Chocolate Lemon Pear Cake~ What makes up five layers of cake love? Let me tell you: 3 layers of chocolate cake, a layer of lemon curd, a layer of pears and some chocolate ganache in between and all around and you have enough cake love to last a few days. That is ...
Triple Citrus Bars
Triple Citrus Bars ~ Lime, lemon and orange all your favorite citrus baked into one blissful bite. I love a good tart and tangy lemon bar, but I have a few friends who don’t like them because of their extreme nature in tartness. Well Folks, you’ll ...
Mother’s Day Tea Cakes
Mother’s Day Tea Cakes ~ Pretty tea cakes to impress the moms in your life. Let me start by saying, I have the skills of a dancing elephant when it comes to piping. So what is baker like me suppose to do? Uh, cheat and use forms to create the rose ...
Pound Cake with Strawberry Coulis
Perfect Pound Cake with Strawberry Coulis ~ A perfect pound cake made untraditionally with cream cheese. Yes, really, cream cheese and it’s so good! Add the strawberry coulis and you will be rhythmically tapping the plate as you scoop your next fork full. Seldom do ...