I submitted this photo of pumpkin pie to Gizmodo.com's Fall Food Porn Shooting Challenge, and it is featured on their "11 Photos of Delicious Fall Foods" page. Check it out here! (It is about half way down the page.) Hope everyone had a lovely weekend! Here is my recipe for Pumpkin Pie, which Hubby described...
Dessert
Chocolate Hazelnut Crepe Cake
My birthday cake project was a tower of success. After the first time I tried making this and the less-than-satisfactory results, I was determined to pull it off this time with minimal tears or bloodshed. (You can read about my 2006 attempt here.) This is by no means a whip-it-together last minute type of dessert...
Birthday Menu-Planning and Bucket-List Recipes
My husband seems to be unusually excited about my birthday this year. Don't get me wrong, he ALWAYS gets excited about my birthday, but it's still a week away and he has mentioned his excitement a multitude of times. I'm one of those lucky wives who doesn't have some story about how he totally dropped...
Triple Coconut Cream Pie
Ever since I made a few things from The Dahlia Bakery Cookbook when it was my Cookbook of the Week, I've been dying to try out their Triple Coconut Cream Pie. Last night while folding laundry, I could resist the temptation no longer. Oh My. Staying up baking until 11:30 at night on a Sunday...
Coconut Pastry Dough
Coconut Pastry Dough (for Triple Coconut Cream Pie) Credit: The Dahlia Bakery Cookbook by Tom Douglas and Shelley Lance Ingredients: 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose lour ½ cup shredded sweetened coconut ½ cup (1 stick) cold unsalted butter, cut into ½-inch cubes 2 teaspoons sugar ¼ teaspoon kosher salt ⅓ cup ice-cold water, or...
Chocolate Hazelnut Biscotti
Happy October! It's my favorite month, which also means that it's beginning to be hot drink weather again. Looking forward to lots of cool days sipping lattes, chai, coffee, cider, or whatever. I make these biscotti around the holidays usually, but they were the perfect way to use up the rest of my leftover hazelnuts from the...
Pumpkin Cookies with Brown Butter Icing
I'm not sure what is a better description of these cookies... cookies, or cupcake tops (which reminds me of the Seinfeld episode about the Muffin Tops- it's a classic, you should watch it). These are soft, cakey circles of delicious pumpkiny goodness, and the brown butter icing tops them off perfectly. One batch makes a...
Grilled Pineapple with Nutella
My love for fruit with Nutella is no longer limited to Crepes. This was a fun new dessert to try on a quiet night at home. I dare you not to lick the spoon from the Nutella cream sauce. (I am going to make some more and serve it over ice cream next time.) Grilled...
Pumpkin Spice Bundt Cake with Buttermilk Icing
It's getting to be that time of the year... Pumpkin time! Our house smells like pumpkin most of the time from Labor Day until New Years. We love pumpkin pie, pumpkin doughnuts (I should share that recipe soon!), pumpkin cake, pumpkin candles, pumpkin waffles (a new favorite), pumpkin spiced lattes and anything else you can...
Classic Vanilla Buttercream Frosting
I tried this recipe for the first time last weekend in an attempt to find a buttercream that I like nearly as much as my favorite Swiss Meringue Buttercream, but that I can whip up in a hurry. I found that if I beat it for a couple of extra minutes at the end, it...