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Bundt Kick: Chocolate Pumpkin Bundt Cake
What can I say? I’m on a bundt kick. With Thanksgiving around the corner I’m also in my favorite hibernation mode: cookbooks open all around me, notepad in hand, and post-its everywhere. It’s also the...
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Chocolate Hazelnut Torte
With my sweet tooth (teeth?), I needed to make sure there was at least one dessert on the Thanksgiving dessert table I could eat. This is one of those wonderful naturally gluten and dairy free desserts...
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Boozy Bourbon Pecan Pie
Did I say I wanted one dessert at the Thanksgiving table? I meant two. I also needed pecan pie. And yes, I really do mean need. I offered leftovers of everything on my Thanksgiving table, except the...
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Cranberry Breakfast Cake
Yes, cake for breakfast. I’ve been calling this bready-moist-torte-cake-creation all sorts of different names and all of my taste-testers came up with nothing better than, “cranberry goodness”. It’s...
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Grandpa’s Coffee Cake
My grandfather was the one that always answered the phone. There was a routine to our 3-minute conversations. He called me “Reeebecca”. He smiled through the phone and you could picture him in his...
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Nut and Berry Biscuits
I have no idea what to call this delicious cookie/scone/biscuit/breakfast treat. It originally came from Elana’s Pantry as a Muesli Scone, but it has gone through so many changes since I started baking...
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Chocolate Pumpkin Whoopie Pies
These are whoopie pies. They are delicious. Eat them all the time. I tried a variety of ways with these whoopie pies until I found the fluffliest cake and the richest pumpkin cream. The filling uses...
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German Pancake with Brandied Apples
Easter Sunday became the Great Pancake Cook-off of 2014. We never actually voted but every pancake was eaten and there were a lot of “mmms” going around. My mother makes an amazing version of this...
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Salt and Pepper Cocoa Shortbread
I created these a long while back and brought them along to a picnic. I forgot all about them but my 3rd base-playing friend, LB, did not. She reminded me of how much she loved those cookies several...
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Chestnut Cake
Hello chestnut cake. Who knew? Why don’t I see this everywhere, all the time? Talk about a lovely and naturally gluten free flour. My mother frequents a tiny, hole-in-the-wall, amazing Italian import...
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Sesame Balls
I made these sweet Sesame Balls filled with Red Bean Paste to ring in the Chinese New Year. The paste is two ingredients and the sesame balls are another two. Yep, that’s it. Both were pretty...
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Salted Chocolate and Nut Triangles
I made these for a vegan’s going-away fiesta and they were a hit. These were a quick and easy naturally gluten free and vegan treat- the texture was somewhere between fudge and a chocolate bar. I used...
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Three Layer Peanut Butter Brownies (Raw)
These were amazingly rich and decadent and though I made them myself, I couldn’t believe they were raw (and vegan and sugar free and gluten free). Everyone’s favorite Sal-Pal left town and for her...
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Boozy Orange Cake
I’ve made this cake and variations of it now dozens of times since the first go round. It has come to be one of my favorite standby desserts. My most popular version and the one I’ve now made over and...
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Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce
Warning! The following entry has a gluten and dairy-full recipe. There is a GF and DF version at the bottom. My friends Jake and Joy got married a few weeks back and asked me to make the desserts for...
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