Dessert Recipes

We are always looking for fun DIY projects around the holidays that can double as gifts and we found one with these easy DIY Peppermint Bowls. You only need ONE ingredient and that’s it! Plus, it takes less than 20 minutes and they look adorable! WHAT YOU NEED: 19 peppermint candies INSTRUCTIONS: Step 1: Heat oven …

Do you know that November 26th is (was) National Cake Day? Well, we may be a bit behind when it comes to celebrating—seriously, who puts a cake holiday right on top of a carb-loading turkey and pie holiday?!—but it’s never really too late for cake. Check out these fun cake recipes! Dark Chocolate Strawberry Cake …

Whatever you do, please don’t tell my mom I’m sharing her “famous” apple pie recipe. For some reason, my family likes to hoard recipes. Whenever my mom was given a compliment on a dish she served – and that was often! – she always kept quiet on her recipe. I don’t get it! If I have …

My family’s dietary restrictions are laughable right now. We are planning our Thanksgiving menu and need to accommodate for gluten free, dairy free, vegan, ketogenic, and Whole 30. Basically we will be eating… vegetables. 🙂 Our plan is to have a huge variety of sides so that everyone will have a few options to choose …

September 3 is International Bacon Day. Need I say more? I didn’t think so. On to the recipes. I love grilled cheese in all its forms (white cheese pizza, quesadillas, plain grilled cheese, grilled cheese with fancy bread and cheese), but I never have anything on my grilled cheese except for, you know, cheese. Until …

August 10th is a very special day. Do you know what it is? It’s National S’mores Day! I love food holidays because there are so many options for celebrating. For example, you can go traditional with a basic graham cracker/marshmallow/milk chocolate combo, or you can get…creative. Let’s go! How about some s’mores cupcakes? These look …

I’m not a wedding expert by any means, but I do know a good idea when I see one. And when I go to a wedding and there is such a fantastic idea that it could even be used for a baby shower, I have to share it. Last weekend, I went to my cousin’s …

One thing that D.C. does really well is Fourth of July fireworks. (Duh.) We have great displays in the surrounding area, but the show to go to is the one on the National Mall. No matter where you watch from—what amazing little-known viewing spot you have—you’ve gotta get there early and claim your spot. Bonus: …

At the beginning of this month, I decided to cut gluten from my daughter’s diet. She has a few signs of being gluten intolerant and I wanted to head off any long term issues by being proactive now. Problem is, she and I both have quite the sweet tooth, and, well, most delicious treats are …

The latest trend of edible flower cakes stirred up fond memories of living down the street from my ‘hippie’ Aunt Jan. She would encourage us to eat the dandelion weeds growing wild in the yard. I haven’t had dandelions since the age of about 9 when she moved away, but I still recall the sweet …

Chef Sawyer is back this week with a layered dessert he has been wanting to try for a while. He wanted to make a cookie bar that combined some of his favorite cookie (and candy!) flavors and I think we hit a homerun with this one. These Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Candy Cookies are super …

These Mini Salted Caramel Chocolate Tarts are a combination of my guilty pleasures, Trader Joe’s Belgian Chocolate Pudding and Trader Joe’s Fleur de Sel Caramel Sauce layered in a sugar cookie crust. All three ingredients are delicious on their own and just pure bliss when united together in one bite. Mini Salted Caramel Chocolate Tarts Serves 12 …