I’m so excited to tell you about caramel! I went to a pastry making class a few weeks ago with my mom where we learned how to make Gateau St. Honoré, a cake named for the French patron saint of bakers and pastry chefs. Only the French would have a patron saint dedicated to making…
sunday sweets
watermelon lime mint popsicles
It’s almost summer! Kind of. I know Memorial Day marks the weekend when all of the pools open and people take off to the lake and to the beach, but I don’t like to let go of spring quite this early. I love spending time in the warm weather, but the cool mornings and evenings this…
chocolate pound cake with chocolate glaze
Some foods are so nostalgic. For me, chocolate glazed cake is one of them. This recipe is slightly adapted from my grandmother’s chocolate pound cake recipe that has been passed down through the generations. I don’t recall having this particular cake much when I was growing up, but I do remember a similar cake my mom used to…
peanut butter and jelly cookies
Did you grow up eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in your school lunches? I was more of a plain peanut butter sandwich girl myself. Actually, I didn’t really like jelly until about high school. I think it was the texture and the typical grape and strawberry flavors that turned me off to the sweet…
blondies from a blondie
A recipe is always good when it starts with chocolate. Especially three kinds of chocolate. Most people think of blondies as brownie’s younger sister. I disagree. They are really more like cousins. Yes, they are both baked and cut into bars, and they usually both contain chocolate, but that is where the similarities end. I…
vanilla cake with lemon buttercream and raspberry jam
I hope you all had a wonderful Easter! Ours was filled with travel, family, church, deviled eggs and this cake. I love the combination of flavors in this dessert. The vanilla cake is fluffy but still slightly dense and surrounded by perfectly sweet lemon buttercream. Each layer of the cake is brushed with raspberry jam…
mini coconut quick breads with fresh whipped cream
Coconut is a very divisive ingredient. Some people love it and some people hate it. I love coconut. Will does not like coconut. On the other hand, I can’t stand even the smell of bananas, much less the taste, but Will loves them. I do, however, love banana bread. Are you catching on? I feel…
double chocolate espresso cookies
This weekend was UNC Dance Marathon, a 24-hour event where students stand, dance and raise money in support of the patients and families at UNC Children’s Hospital. As you can imagine, standing and dancing for 24 hours is tiring. That’s where these chocolate espresso cookies come in. These cookies are based off of cookies at…
homemade pop tarts (aka hand pies) for pi day!
To me, pop tarts are nostalgic. Different flavors bring back specific memories of my childhood. Brown sugar cinnamon remind me of my mom in my elementary school days when she would grab one as she was running out of the house to get to work early so she could be there for us in the afternoons….
sunday sweets: banana cake with cinnamon brown sugar filling and salted chocolate frosting
Oh, daylight savings time, I don’t know how to feel about you. On one hand, I love the extra sunlight that comes when we “spring forward” for daylight savings, on the other hand, I struggle to know what time it is for about a week. I don’t trust my clocks and I question the time…