Butterscotch Bread Pudding with Rum Sauce
I’ve discussed inspiration here a few times, and I admit mine comes from the strangest places. This bit of inspiration hit in my local grocery store’s rather dismal bakery section. Let’s be honest, grocery store bakeries are bleak places stuffed with pre-fab cakes smothered with greasy icing, cookie pucks, and pies with what can best be described as watery crusts. So, right about now I bet your wondering where I...
Caramel Cake with Cinnamon Vanilla Bean Cream Cheese Frosting
So, the recipe for Bourbon Caramel Apple Pie Cookies contains a recipe that yields well over a cup of caramel sauce. That is a lot more caramel than you really need. Never fear, I have an elegant solution for what to do with the extra caramel that does not require two pints of ice cream and a marathon of my favorite Marilyn Monroe movies. (How to Marry a Millionaire is my number 1 favorite!) Use the extra caramel in a cake! ...
Bourbon Caramel Apple Pie Cookies
Here in North Texas we have had something of a cold snap. By cold I mean temps that range from upper 40’s to mid-60’s. I know there are those who snicker at my definition of cold snap, but here in my neck of the woods this is December weather. All this cool weather has put me in in the mood for all my cold weather food favorites. In particular, apple pie. One of the best apple pies I have ever had had a buttery layer...
Orange Cheesecake Cookies
There is something of a joke in my family about cream cheese. You see, my father loves the stuff. I’ve seen him eat it on crackers, with salsa, on chips, or even plain. Whenever he tries a new recipe, inevitably, his first comment is that it does not have enough cream cheese. (Most of the time he is joking … we think.) He was the reason, last holiday season, I tried to find a cookie that featured cream cheese...
Chocolate Chip Coconut Brown Butter Cookies
I’m on something of a brown butter kick at the moment. It is a really tasty kick, if I don’t mind saying. After the Chocolate Spice Cake with Brown Butter Frosting I was looking for another way to use brown butter in sweets. I decided on cookies, since they are my favorite thing to eat, and I decided to use some coconut because I had some in the pantry. Really, these cookies were created simply by looking in my...
Chocolate Spice Cake With Brown Butter Frosting
Welcome Fall!! It is not exactly cool here, but we have had three days where the temps have stayed cool enough for the air to be crisp, and that puts me in a Fall baking mood! I decided to break out all the ingredients for a spice cake when a bar of dark chocolate caught my eye. What, I wondered, would happen if I tried to make a chocolate spice cake? This is the result! The cake is delicate and moist, and it stays moist for a...
