Adventures in cooking and baking.
Crushed peppermint candy gives these Chocolate Peppermint and Chocolate Chip Cookies an extra festive look.
If you need a cookie recipe for Christmas gifts, make these chocolate and peppermint cookies. You'll get a yield of about 45 cookies, and they will last up to 10 days at room temperature and at least 30 days in the freezer.
This simple and easy chocolate cake is so moist and light, and is topped with an amazing chocolate and cream cheese frosting.
If you need to quickly whip up a wonderful chocolate cake, try this one. You only need one bowl for the cake.... and you don't need an electric mixer. In fact, everything, including the frosting, is mixed by hand.
This Zuppa Toscana, with Italian sausage, potatoes, and kale, paired with a salad and some bread, is all you need to fill you up (and warm you up) for lunch or dinner.
This Zuppa Toscana is a take on the popular soup from Olive Garden. While the name means Tuscan soup, it's not necessarily an authentic soup from Tuscany. Regardless, this soup is completely tasty in its own right.
These Swedish-style garlic, herb, and cheese buns are soft and enriched yeasted rolls shaped in the style of Swedish cardamom buns (kardemummabullar), but with a savory filling.
These buns, made with an enriched yeasted dough, are soft, fluffy, and absolutely wonderful fresh from the oven.
This Sugar Plum Cocktail with gin, grapefruit juice, and a pomegranate reduction is perfect for all of your upcoming holiday festivities.
With its gorgeous color and sweet/tart flavor, this cocktail goes perfectly with your favorite appetizer, such as a crostini with goat cheese, honey, and pomegranate arils.
These maple cupcakes with maple cream cheese frosting are pretty spectacular.
These cupcakes are deeply flavored with maple syrup, both in the cake and in the frosting. These cupcakes are also filled with toasted pecans.
This Pan de Jamón, a Venezuelan Christmas bread, is a wonderful combination of sweet and savory flavors.
Pan de Jamón is often served on Christmas Eve in Venezuela on a single plate with a chicken salad called ensalada de gallina, roast pork, and hallacas (South American tamales with cracked corn) (source: Gran Cocina Latina: The Food of Latin America by Maricel E. Presilla, 2012).
