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Category Archives: Dessert
Not Your Grandmama’s Red Velvet (Cup)cake(s) with Cream Cheese Frosting
Sometimes a recipe poses obstacles. For instance, when a certain little boy tells me he’d like red velvet cupcakes for his birthday party, I need to wrestle with the idea of using food coloring I’d typically prefer not adding to … Continue reading
Sweetly Spiced Yogurt Pudding
We just had a week filled with birthday celebrating. Silas has had three separate birthday celebrations – all of them including homemade treats and cooking. I made a vanilla cake with salted caramel meringue buttercream filling. The process of making … Continue reading
Sourdough Doughnuts with Vanilla Bean Glaze
If I could eat fresh hot doughnuts every day without worrying about turning into a doughnut myself, I would absolutely do it. My birthday is in two weeks. I encourage each of you to send me your favorite doughnut. Perhaps … Continue reading
Posted in Breakfast, Dessert, Kids, Snacks
Tagged baked doughnuts, best doughnut recipe, breakfast, dessert, donuts, doughnuts, fried doughnut, fried doughnut recipe, fried doughnuts, glaze donuts, glazed doughnuts, homemade donuts, homemade doughnuts, sourdough, sourdough doughnuts, vanilla bean glaze, vanilla beans
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Toasted Coconut Cardamom Rice Pudding with Blueberries
In the last few weeks, I’ve grown a deep appreciation for leftovers and nearly empty refrigerators. I’m not even being sarcastic (gasp, I know). The sparseness remaining once all the newer groceries have been consumed can be motivation to try … Continue reading
Posted in Breakfast, Dessert, Gluten-Free, Kids, Snacks, Vegetarian
Tagged cardamom, cardamom pods, coconut blueberry, coconut cardamon rice pudding, coconut flakes, coconut milk, coconut milk rice pudding, coconut pudding, coconut rice pudding, dessert, dried blueberries, pudding, pure vanilla, rice pudding, sweet rice pudding
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Sourdough Pancakes and a Hilarious New Blog
Recently, I was asked to share the recipe for a photo I posted on Facebook, featuring the above pancakes. “I’m starting a food blog!” said Eve, a lovely lady I grew up with on Kauai. When I received a follow-up … Continue reading
Oatmeal Cookies with Bonus Features
I try not to romanticize baking cookies, but then there are days when I wake up thinking about oatmeal cookies, the scent of butter creamed together with sugar and vanilla… and it seems futile to fight that (too hard). I’m … Continue reading
The Art of Failed Cakes and Mistakes
One of the most rewarding things I’ve learned from really delving into cooking is: mistakes happen. Not that I wasn’t aware of this before. And certainly in the areas of life outside of the kitchen, I’m a mistake aficionado. Life … Continue reading
Strawberry Mascarpone Tart with a Meyer Lemon Oat Crust and Balsamic Glaze
The beauty of being a legal adult is that you can happily indulge in sea salt caramel gelato for breakfast whenever the hell you feel like it. Granted, you wait until the kids are in school because you can’t have … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Breakfast, Dessert, Sauces, Vegetarian
Tagged balsamic glazed strawberries, fruit tart, long tart, mascarpone, mascarpone tart, meyer lemon oat crust, meyer lemon oat pie crust, meyer lemons, Napa Valley Balsamic Reserve, oat pie crust, rectangular tart, spring desserts, strawberries, strawberry desserts, strawberry mascarpone tart, strawberry tart
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Glazed Blueberry, Meyer Lemon and Vanilla Bean Pull-Apart Bread
I apologize for the lack of recipes. Truth be told, being out of town, I didn’t cook a single thing for the last week. Granted, hotel breakfasts lend a little room for creativity. I do mean little… like plain packets of instant … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Bread, Breakfast, Dessert, Kids, Snacks, Vegetarian
Tagged best pull-apart breads, blueberry and lemon, blueberry bread, blueberry desserts, blueberry meyer lemon, blueberry meyer lemon and vanilla, dessert bread, glazed pull apart bread, homemade pull-apart loaves, meyer lemon glaze, pull apart bread, pull-apart bread recipes, pull-apart loaf, sweet breads, sweet pull apart
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Julie Hashimoto-McCreery
