A super-easy no-bake dessert with all the flavor of your favorite Italian pastry, cannoli, and none of the hassle! There are some restauarant dishes that, as much as I love them, I never even consider making at home. Those dishes often involve deep-frying because I just can't deal with the thought of a bubbling pot of hot oil. The mess! The ...
Easy Peach Ice Cream (Egg-Free)
An easy-to-make peach ice cream with tons of fresh peach flavor and no egg yolks. Perfect for egg allergies or a quick DIY project! Having been without an oven for most of the summer, I have sorely missed baking. It's been killing me to go to the farmers market each week and see all the lovely summer fruit knowing that I can't turn any of it ...
Lemon Olive Oil Ice Cream for Hanukkah
A fresh take on Hanukkah fare: olive oil ice cream. Don't be skeptical: it is lick-the-bowl delicious! This year, Hanukkah starts at sundown on December 12. Hanukkah commemorates the victory of a small group of Jews, the Maccabees, over the army of the Syrian-Greek King Antiochus in the second century BCE. After the Jews drove the Greeks ...
Stokes Purple Sweet Potato Souffle
Gorgeous Stokes Purple sweet potatoes bring an earthy warmth to this just-sweet-enough soufflé. A perfect way to end a holiday meal or impress guests at brunch. I don’t think there are enough purple foods. Purple is not only beautiful and vibrant — my favorite color, in fact — but when you see it in a food, it is a sign of heathfulness. A ...
Homemade Truffles for Valentine’s Day
Don't look now, but it's almost Valentine's Day. You may be thinking."Great! Forget my new year's resolution to eat healthier. I'll take all the chocolate, please." Well, what if you could have your chocolate and eat it too? (Wait, of course we are going to eat the chocolate. What else would we do with it?) Today, I'm going to give you a recipe ...
Malted Chocolate Chip and Reverse Chip Cookies from Marbled, Swirled & Layered
Why make regular old chocolate chip cookies when you can make dazzling, flavorful harlequin-checked Malted Chocolate Chip and Reverse Chip Cookies with only a little extra effort? Turning classic desserts into dazzling, Instagram-worthy confections with only a leetle extra effort is the theme of my friend and fellow food blogger Irvin Lin's new ...
Apple Streusel Tart
Rosh Hashanah may be over, but it is still apple season. Whether you visit an apple orchard to pick your own or stock up on heirloom varieties at a local farmers market, now is the time to enjoy the tremendous variety of cooking, baking and eating apples. Goodness knows I love a trip to the apple orchard, but when busy schedules do not allow for ...
Jam-Filled Hand Pies
I recently spoke at one of my favorite conferences for food bloggers, Eat Write Retreat. The topic of my session, naturally, was food swapping. Zuzu helped me put together my first-ever Keynote presentation -- that's like Power Point for Macs -- with a lot of photos and jazzy effects. Maybe a few too many jazzy effects, but that is the risk you ...