A lovely and substantial salad featuring crunchy Fuyu persimmons, pomegranate seeds, toasted pecans, goat cheese and pickled red onions. Giving onions a quick pickling using vinegar, honey and salt is such an easy way to remove their bite and give a hint of acid, I snacked on them so much while prepping the salad I…
Meringue Bone Cake
Rich chocolate cake layers paired with a chocolate buttercream, chocolate ganache all covered in meringue bones. The effect is striking and perfect for Halloween but the execution is so easy! I’ve actually seen a bunch of meringue bone cakes online and just finally got around to trying my hand at one. Piping the bones is…
Roasted Artichokes
Easy to make roasted artichokes with lemon and garlic are guaranteed to please especially when paired with my zesty aioli! Steaming artichokes seems like the most common way to prepare this gigantic edible flower but roasting them yields more flavor and allows to you season them so you could even enjoy without a dipping sauce….
Fig Pizza
A hearty Fall pizza featuring roasted butternut squash, fresh figs, caramelized onions, and goat cheese all on a crusty home made dough brushed with garlic oil. After baking I spread some arugala on top and drizzled the whole thing with a really nice aged balsamic vinegar. I didn’t share one slice of this pizza so…
Pumpkin Bundt Cake
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a giant pumpkin cake! OK first off I know many of you won’t have time to go all out and make an almost real looking pumpkin, but that’s OK! Just make the cake and serve with the glaze of your choice, slather it in cream cheese frosting, or…
Pumpkin Spice Latte Donuts
Melt in your mouth pumpkin spice latte donuts are so easy to make and so delicious you might regret reading this recipe! 😳 They’re so moist you won’t dare to dip them in anything! Also I gotta be real, many baked donuts are disappointing. They’re like tiny cupcakes without buttercream that have been over-baked. MEH!!!…
Witch Hat Cookies
If you’re making them with little ones you can easily just go for the straight cone as it’s less difficult to roll in melted chocolate and sanding sugar, and you don’t have to cut the sugar cone. I’m going to be honest and warn you that black sanding sugar is MESSY! So best to work…
Healthy Zucchini Muffins
Let’s talk about substitutions! For a vegan option nix the eggs, whisk in 7 1/2 teaspoons of ground flax seeds into nine tablespoons of water until it becomes gelatinous. You can sub out the coconut flour for regular all purpose flour if you don’t have any/are not a fan. Toasted pecans would work well in…
Pumpkin Pecan Cinnamon Rolls
Adding pecans so cinnamon rolls is literally the best thing ever. The taste and crunch they add complements the soft pillowy dough. HOWEVER cutting the rolls when you add anything hard is a bit more difficult. I made sure to turn my “log” after each cut so it wouldn’t flatten too much. I also highly…
Pumpkin Cornbread
If you really want to amp up the moisture of this dish then go ahead and add a 1/4 cup more pumpkin or sour cream to the batter. You can also trade off some of the cornmeal for all purpose flour to give the dish a more “cakey” texture. I think cornbread is best served…
Pumpkin Poke Cake
Believe it or not I’ve never made a sheet cake! Now I see the appeal! So easy with all of the taste and you can slather on just the right amount of frosting so every bite is perfect. It’s also a cake I don’t feel bad about cutting into and eating, not precious at all….
Maple Walnut Zucchini Bread
Zucchini bread with walnuts is hard to screw up. It’s moist, crunchy and packed with flavor. I made this and had an excuse to skip cooking breakfast for myself as it is perfect with a cup of coffee in the morning. I knew zucchini is a moisture machine as I’ve used is for cake before…
No Bake Pumpkin Bars
A spiced graham cracker crust paired with vanilla pudding flavored with pumpkin, cinnamon, allspice and nutmeg. I serve mine with whipped cream and toasted pecans but a scoop o I love deserts like these no bake bars because you can make them in a few minutes, pop them in the fridge and pull them out…
Pumpkin Pie
I don’t know if you’re in this habit but tenting your crusts with tin foil for most of the bake drastically cuts down on singed edges. Just fold a long piece of foil in half lengthwise and gently wrap around the crust before baking you can remove halfway through or so and allow the crust…
Peacock Cake
I almost gave up on this peacock cake when the “feathers” started giving me all sorts of trouble but I persisted! What do you think?? You know I’m not usually so bright with my colors but it’s not a peahen cake now is it? The cake is vanilla but the buttercreams are flavored with a…