Recipes

Ingredients and directions for foods that are worth the effort.

Salted Caramel Sauce

A versatile dessert sauce ready to top, fill, glaze, drizzle, and make all your dessert dreams come true.

Spiced Apple Butter

If you have the opportunity to pick apples out at an orchard, or even better, from your backyard; this recipe for spiced apple butter is a “must have.” PSA: Apple butter is not butter. It’s apples and spices cooked down to the point of being so thick, it spreads on […]

Peanut Butter Buddy Bars

A throwback dessert bar that is essentially a chocolate chip studded peanut butter blondie with a chocolate topping. This simple family favorite can serve a crowd, or one die hard peanut butter fanatic, and is easy enough for young bakers to make with minimal adult assistance. My daughter made the […]

Color Technique: Macarons

Holidays, birthdays, and other celebrations are times when you want your food to be as festive as the day. Sometimes that means making a traditional food. Other times, that means taking a food you love and dressing it up for the occasion! Our Independence Day celebrations looked a little different […]

Rocky Road Ice Cream

I have had the song, ” I love Rock N’ Roll” in my head for days, but I’ve been singing it as “I love Rocky Road! Put some choco-late in my ice cream baby!” I suppose I’m a bit of a nut, and I like chocolate covered chopped nuts in […]

Fresh Fruit Pie

Summer cannot go by without having at least 1 fresh fruit pie. The first pie is always strawberry and marks the start of the summer. Peach is my favorite and usually marks the middle of summer. Growing up, we had a raspberry bush and had raspberry pies to wrap up […]