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Halloween macarons are a sweet treat made spooky! These macarons become jack-o-lantern cookies flavored with pumpkin pie spice and filled with sweetened cream cheese.

Haute cuisine in half an hour? Yes! Serve these delicious Normandy-style mussels in cider sauce with lots of crusty bread for dipping.

These decadent beef burgundy burgers contain all the flavors of classic bœuf bourguignon: beef, red wine, mushrooms, onions and French herbs.

Special holidays call for special desserts. Cranberry creme brulee is a holiday twist on the dessert with a layer of cranberry sauce under the creamy custard. While I'm not a fan of cold weather, November and December are one of my favorite times of the year. The day after Halloween, I get such a feeling …

Chocolate opera cake is a slight twist on the traditional French dessert, with thin layers of chocolate cake, coffee buttercream and chocolate ganache. I attended culinary school for two years. Three mornings a week, we started the day with a 5-hour Production "class"—making all of the treats that were sold in the school's bakery, which …

This post is sponsored in conjunction with Christmas Cookies Week. I received product samples from sponsor companies to aid in the creation of the Christmas Cookies Week recipes. All opinions are mine alone. This post contains affiliate links. Macarons are elegant French cookies. These eggnog macarons consist of a light and airy nutmeg-flavored shell with …

Flaky butter croissants are a classic French breakfast pastry. They take time, but need only 7 ingredients, and are sure to impress your friends and family. 

Cannoli cream puffs are filled with the traditional Italian sweetened ricotta cheese mixture and mini chocolate chips. Dust with powdered sugar just before serving. 

This post is sponsored in conjunction with #BrunchWeek. I received product samples from sponsor companies to aid in the creation of the #Brunchweek recipes. All opinions are mine alone. Mocha eclairs are filled with pastry cream flavored with chocolate and coffee extract — what better pastry to serve at a brunch? 

Although this post is sponsored by Keller's Creamery, all opinions are my own. Hop into spring with strawberry-lemon eclairs, filled with fruit-flavored cream cheese filling then dipped in white chocolate ganache. 

I'm celebrating Galentine's Day with this take on chocolate-covered strawberries: cream puffs filled with strawberry pastry cream and drizzled in chocolate. Happy Galentine's Day! What is Galentine's Day, you ask? It's a fictional celebration from the television show "Parks and Recreation." It's the best day of the year. Celebrated on February 13th, women leave their husbands and their boyfriends …

For April's What's Baking theme, our host, Kate from Kate's Recipe Box, chose baking with cheese. What a fun theme! This was the perfect opportunity to make something I've been wanting to try for quite some time: gougères. Gougères are made with the same pastry as profiteroles (you may know them as cream puffs) and …

In honor of the evil co-worker who brought in mini cream puffs and eclairs, and left them in the break room (where I was tempted to bring the whole box back to my office, so I could eat them all), I'm posting my recipes for choux (pronounced "choo") dough, and pastry cream. Pâte à choux …