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Category Archives: Dessert
Buttermilk Apple Cake with Brown Sugar Roasted Figs
Sometimes recipe inspiration hits me in weird places. And I don’t mean in my left elbow, or right pinkie-toe. I was running at the gym the other day… I used to despise the treadmill – I’d opt for the elliptical … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Breakfast, Dessert, Kids, Vegetarian
Tagged apple cake, apples, brown sugar figs, buttermilk, buttermilk cake, cake, dessert, fig cake, Gravenstein apples, roasted figs
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Easy Banana Cake with Vanilla Bean Frosting
Sometimes I am not sure where the day goes between waking to the sound of my husband’s voice urging seven year old Silas to “Hurry, baby! Brush your teeth! We’re going to be late for school…” and then the slow … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Dessert, Life, Vegetarian
Tagged banana, banana cake, bananas, cake, cinnamon, dessert, easy dessert, frosting, vanilla, vanilla bean
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Mini Vanilla Custard Tarts with Chocolate Crusts and Raspberries
I’m not sure how we happened upon the end of summer, yet here it is… school has started, evening temperatures are steadily dropping as the days pass, the skies darken just a little earlier, and I can’t wait for fall … Continue reading
Cinnamon Apple Cake
The following post contains the recipe for a cake reminiscent of fall, that is also ridiculously moist, good-looking, and tasty. You could call it a cinnamon apple cake, or apple spice cake, which it is. I jokingly referred to it … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Dessert, Life
Tagged apple, apple cake, cake, cinnamon, cinnamon apple, dessert, ginger, golden delicious, granny smith, meyer lemon, orange juice, vanilla
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Mini Sourdough Peach Pies
I enjoy peaches, especially this time of year when the summer heat so perfectly ripens them. Peaches themselves don’t need many frills or additives to make them attractive. Wandering through the grocery store or farmers market, I love spotting these … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Dessert, Kids, Vegetarian
Tagged Babycakes, Babycakes pie maker, mini pies, PEACH PIE, PEACHES, sourdough, SOURDOUGH CRUST, SOURDOUGH PEACH PIE, SOURDOUGH PIE, SOURDOUGH SURPRISES
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Mini Chocolate Pies with Macadamia Coconut Crusts
Our kitchen isn’t exactly lacking in gadgets. The lovely Kitchen Aid artisan stand mixer, food processor, Belgian waffle iron, juicer, Hawaiian shave ice maker, etc. My tendency, however, is to use these things frequently as soon as we get them, … Continue reading
Mini Blueberry Pies
Perhaps by now you’re aware that I do not consider myself much of a baker. Queen of the flop-cakes? Sure thang. Sunken-center baker extraordinaire? You know it. Not always, but enough to make me nervous about ever having to bake … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Breakfast, Dessert, Vegetarian
Tagged Babycakes, Babycakes pie maker, blueberries, cinnamon, cloves, dessert, lemon, lemon zest, novelty baking, pie maker, pies, sugar, vanilla
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Fudgy Bourbon Brownies
I’ve got to admit, I like my booze. I also like my dessert. Not in an excessive, over-the-top, drunkard, gluttonous sort of way. But… thoroughly. I try to make a point of creating desserts no more than once a week, … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Dessert, Vegetarian
Tagged boozy, boozy dessert, bourbon, brownies, chocolate, dessert, fudgy brownies, knob creek, unsweetened cocoa
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Buttermilk Ginger Biscuits
While there isn’t a Whole Foods Market near us here in Ashland, whenever we’re near one while traveling, my husband has a semi-addiction. Ginger biscuits. It’s a 99% guarantee that they’ll be in the bakery section, next to the fresh … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Bread, Breakfast, Dessert, Vegetarian
Tagged biscuits, breakfast, butter, buttermilk, buttermilk biscuit, crystallized ginger, dessert, ginger, ground ginger, lemon zest, treat, vanilla, whole wheat
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Roasted Strawberry Buttermilk Cake
As a kid, I don’t remember much of a fondness for strawberries. I grew up enjoying mangoes picked from the front yard, bananas and mountain apples from the backyard. Also, lychee was at the top of my preferred fruit consumption … Continue reading
Julie Hashimoto-McCreery
