Cranberry & Pear Brown Butter Almond Cake

This cake has all the holiday scents and spices wrapped in a nutty brown butter cake and finished with a splash of tart cranberries and evened out with some chopped pears.

Cranberry & Pear Brown Butter Almond Cake
Cranberry & Pear Brown Butter Almond Cake

Too bad it was 80-plus degrees this weekend. So while my cake may have smelled like Christmas, as Matt describes it, we both bemoaned the fact that it felt like summer. I couldn’t help it though, I’m one of those annoying people when Halloween is over I’m ready for the Christmas decorations to come out and play. Well since Halloween isn’t until tomorrow, I was itching to get started with some Christmas, so I baked a cake.

Makes perfect sense.

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Frosted Raspberry and Crème Bites

Frosted Raspberry and Crème Bites ~ Like a good pair of heels to a dress, the frosted berries brings an added sparkle to this simple bite size dessert.

Frosted Raspberry and Creme Bites
Frosted Raspberry and Creme Bites

Small in size but packed with flavor, the sweet and tangy tart of the berries adds a nice compliment to the buttery puff pastry while lending a fruity balance to the vanilla crème.

These Frosted Raspberry and Creme Bites are incredibly easy to make and always a hit for the holidays. If you keep up with my blog you know if I’m crazy for mini, but these little guys are micro-mini. Hardly bigger than the berries themselves this dessert is truly a bite size dessert and not a finger dessert that can sometimes turn into a messy two bite affair or a mouth-stuffing squirrel bite.

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