Ever since I made a miniature version of my mom’s Grasshopper Pie recipe, I’ve experimented with all kinds of petite tarts and desserts. Eliza asked me to make her favorite of my diminutive experiments — Raspberry Cream Tartlets — to take to school for her birthday….
Kahlua Chocolate Cake delivers rich chocolate flavor with warm Kahlua undertones. Two recipes included — a scratch recipe and a doctored box recipe.
The recipe for the first cake I remember baking, a Kahlua Chocolate Cake, comes from one of my mom’s closest friends. My mom asked for the recipe the very first time she tasted Stephanie’s rich, addictive cake….
Almost always, I can pinpoint with elaborate detail the source of a much-loved dish. …
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Rich, chocolate cake, vanilla butter cream frosting, and smooth, rich chocolate come together in a beautiful, indulgent Ganache Glazed Chocolate Cake.
One of my favorite lines from Russell and Lillian Hoban’s book, A Baby Sister for Frances, comes at the very end of the story. Frances, a young badger, is in the kitchen with her mother, who is baking a cake. “Oh, yes,” her mother tells her, “you may be sure that there will always be plenty of chocolate cake around here.”…
Pale green minty deliciousness billows up from inside little chocolate cookie crusts. These cupcake-sized grasshopper tartlets make perfect finger food.
We didn’t eat much junk food at my house growing up, but we did indulge in dessert most nights after dinner. Often, we finished our meal with a simple bowl of ice cream, but sometimes my my mom — a master of sweet, indulgent treats — served us something much more exciting….
Ice cream cones make perfect edible flower pots for Rose Cake Pops. A dusting of chocolate cookie crumbs over ice cream looks just like dirt.
My daughter Tessa has been asking me to make cake pops for about a year. I’m usually game to experiment in the kitchen, but whenever she brought up the subject of cake pops, I always found some excuse to put her off….
Crisp chocolate crust, rich, thick ganache, sweet butterscotch pudding, and airy whipped cream come together in this indulgent Butterscotch Cream Pie.
A few weeks ago, Tessa looked in the refrigerator and told us that we had too much food. “We shouldn’t go to the store until we eat all of this,” our nearly-five-year-old declared….
