Scare up some fun with this spooky Halloween Spiderweb Cake. It involves basic piping techniques, so it's easy enough for beginner cake decorators!
Holiday Recipes
Move over, classic pumpkin pie! Pumpkin brulee tart has a custard-like spiced pumpkin filling baked in a dark chocolate tart shell with a bruleed sugar topping.
This veggie quiche is loaded with the freshest spring produce. It's a perfect make-ahead meal for breakfast, brunch or dinner!
Loukoumades are light, airy puffs of dough are fried, then coated in a sweet honey syrup. Greeks traditionally served these fritters as dessert, but they're equally delicious at breakfast! In celebration of the release of My Big, Fat Greek Wedding 2, today's Sunday Supper is themed Greek recipes! What a fun challenge! I don't often eat …
Turn your favorite cupcake recipe into these adorable Easter Basket Cupcakes, topped with BUTTERFINGER® NestEggs! Kids of all ages will love them! This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #EggcellentTreats #CollectiveBias
Italian-style chocolate mint biscotti is the perfect accompaniment for your afternoon cup of coffee! This cookie is flavored with dark chocolate cocoa powder and mint-flavored chocolate morsels.
If you like lemon meringue pie, you'll love this holiday cranberry meringue pie, which uses cranberry curd filling instead of lemon, topped with sweetened whipped egg whites.
In this Christmas Wreath Cupcake tutorial, I show you how to turn your favorite cupcake into a festive Christmas wreath with some red and green icing and a few simple tools.
Easy, no-bake five-ingredient peppermint mocha fudge makes a delicious holiday party treat, or a sweet homemade gift.
Eggnog pound cake makes a delicious Christmas dessert, or package it up to give as a homemade gift!
Looking for a change from classic apple or pumpkin pie? Try this delicious spiced pear pie with hazelnut crumb topping. Serve slightly warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
This Thanksgiving stuffing is packed full of flavor, from the bread, to the veggies, to the cinnamon-coated apples. Make it ahead of time, then crisp the top in the oven while your turkey rests.
This make-ahead, no-bake cranberry apple charlotte cake will wow your holiday guests with its apple and cranberry flavors, and beautiful presentation.
Pumpkin season isn't over yet! This Thanksgiving, serve pumpkin buttermilk biscuits spiced with cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg alongside your turkey.
Pomegranate sangria combines fruity red wine with pomegranate and cranberry, with cinnamon for a hint of spice. Make a large batch a day ahead for a winning party cocktail! Happy November, readers! I hope you all had a fun Halloween with more treats than tricks. But now, Halloween is over. I don't know about you, …
Need a last-minute, no-bake Halloween treat? Try these 5-ingredient candy corn popcorn balls! They're sweet and salty and perfect for all ages!
This incredibly rich and creamy white chocolate raspberry cheesecake has swirls of raspberry preserves — it looks difficult, but is to easy to make. It'll be as showstopper whenever it's served!
Challah is bread that is enriched with eggs, and traditionally eaten by members of the Jewish religion on the Sabbath and religious holidays. Similar to brioche, it also makes a tasty French toast. Dave was pretty excited when I told him that this month's theme for #TwelveLoaves was Jewish breads. Dave's father's side of the family …
Wow your friends at your next get-together! Learn how to make patriotic cupcakes with this easy Firecracker Cupcakes tutorial. It's nearly the 4th of July, which means Independence Day here in the United States. I live in a very historic area of Philadelphia, so the colors red, white and blue are EVERYWHERE. I'm a history …
Snack on baked churros dipped in dulce de leche this Cinco de Mayo! This pastry is traditionally fried, but this slightly healthier baked version is just as tasty. For Mother's Day two years ago, Dave took me to a Cuban tapas restaurant, and we had a fantastic brunch. The first dish that I ordered was …
Bright, colorful Easter candy cookies are sure to bring a smile to anyone's face. White chocolate cookies are loaded with pastel-colored chocolate candies. Easter ranks pretty high on my list of favorite holidays. Not for the traditions; for the candy. You see, Cadbury Caramel Eggs are one of the BEST THINGS EVER. And they're only …
Need a fast, easy snack for Saint Patrick's Day? Make a batch of these muddy buddies (aka puppy chow): cereal coated in chocolate, peanut butter, and powdered sugar, plus Lucky Charms marshmallows and M&Ms! When I mention that I'm a food blogger, more often than not, people ask, "What do you do with all that extra …
Embrace your Irish side with this heart-healthy Irish oatmeal bread. Steel-cut oats and whole wheat fiber provide you with 3 grams of fiber and 5 grams of protein per slice! St. Patrick's Day is around the corner, and being Irish myself, I'm quite happy to see everyone embracing their Irish side. Shepherd's pie, colcannon, champ, …
Recreate a discontinued seasonal coffeehouse favorite with this simple eggnog coffee syrup. Use it in your homemade coffee or espresso drinks, or give as a gift! There's a certain popular coffeehouse that I love to visit (I'll give you a hint, it rhymes with "Shmarkbucks"). My absolute favorite beverage is their pumpkin spice latte. But running …
Some of the best recipes of the Christmas season are those that double as gifts, like this homemade cranberry-infused vodka! Thanksgiving has passed, now it's time for the hustle and bustle of the holidays! Cookie swaps, Christmas parties, brunches with Santa, tree trimming, caroling (does anybody do that anymore?), and on and on! It might sound …
These Cranberry, Turkey and Stuffing Sandwiches are a homemade version of a Wawa Country staple: the Gobbler sandwich. Save your Thanksgiving leftover turkey, gravy, stuffing and cranberry sauce to make one yourself. Some wait for the return of Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Lattes. For others, the surest sign of fall is the return of the Wawa …
Wow your Thanksgiving guests with this juicy, flavorful turkey. OXO will choose one winner to receive several tools to make hosting Thanksgiving easier! It's getting to be my favorite time of year. It kicks off on Thanksgiving Day. For the past two years, I've hosted Thanksgiving dinner (last year, for Dave's family; this year, for …
Holiday season, with large dinners, rich desserts and drinks, is upon us. Save calories without sacrificing flavor with this lightened-up eggnog! It's here: holiday season. Halloween candy, Thanksgiving dinner, cookie swaps, Christmas parties ... Eating healthy? See you after New Year's! But wait! Today's #SundaySupper is all about lightening up holiday food. One of my …
Scare up some Halloween fun with these homemade graham crackers, subtly flavored with pumpkin and spice, dressed up with royal icing and black candy chips! Happy Halloween, readers! For the past several months, I've been posting about recipes that I made for Liam's daycare class Snack Share. Now that Liam has "graduated" to the transitional …
Kids and adults alike will love celebrating this Fourth of July with festive red, white and blue layered Jell-O, cut into bite-size star shapes! For Liam's daycare snack-share this week, in honor of the Fourth of July, I made these adorable layered Jell-O snacks. I got the idea after attending a Dr. Seuss-themed birthday party of …
Happy Easter! Sorry for the lack of posts lately. My laptop has officially died. Right now, I'm blogging from the world's smallest netbook, courtesy of Dave. Thankfully, I will be able to recover all the data (like all of my past blog photos, copies of past tax returns, and every picture of Liam I've ever …
Chances are, if you're not living under a rock, you see Irish soda bread popping up after Valentine's Day. What is soda bread? No, it's not made with a carbonated beverage. It's a quick bread, and uses baking soda as a leavener. Yes, just about all quick breads you see these days use baking soda, …
Our recipe swap host, A Taste of Home Cooking, chose the theme holiday cooking/baking for this round. My assigned blog, Dough See Dough, didn't have a dedicated "holiday recipes" index, so I browsed several of her categories to see what looked good. Since I am usually the one to make the holiday desserts, that's where …
So, I got a little sidetracked and missed a few days of cookies. I'm sorry! All of a sudden it was a week before Christmas and I hadn't done a bit of Christmas gift shopping, we hadn't seen Santa, didn't have a tree, Dave's car stopped working, and Liam was sick. Ahhhh! I was feeling …
Ah, Nutella. I know I'm not the only one obsessed with it. Right? Admit it. Spreads like peanut butter, but the taste, oh, the taste! I don't even need a recipe, I'm content to eat it straight from the jar. But some people don't agree that a spoon and a jar of Nutella can be …
Browned butter chocolate chip cookies have a subtle, nutty flavor from the browned milk solids in the butter. They're Christmas cookies with a kick! Some things just make everything else butter. Some say bacon. Some say chocolate. I say browned butter. What is browned butter? Well, butter contains tiny particles called "milk solids." When you …
It's recipe swap time again! This swap round was Blogger's Choice, hosted by A Taste of Home Cooking, which meant I could choose any recipe I wanted from the blog I had been assigned. I knew I was going to do a "12 Days of Cookies" series in December, so how perfect was it that …
When I was putting together my list of cookies for this series, I knew I wanted to make all different varieties of cookies: one oatmeal, one biscotti, one citrus flavor, one eggnog flavor, a brownie, etc. I definitely wanted to include a shortbread recipe, since they are a traditional Scottish Christmas cookie. I was browsing …
This is my third year baking for the Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap. It started with a thought by Lindsay from Love and Olive Oil and Julie from The Little Kitchen, and has turned into a huge cookie swap event, raising thousands of dollars for Cookies for Kids Cancer. Each year, the swap gets bigger and …
Biscotti are a relatively new type of cookie in my home. I'd seen them around for years, and they've always contained nuts, most of which I can't eat (not allergic, they just make me sick). Then I bought the King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion, which had a whole chapter dedicated to biscotti. Two recipes (Italian-style …