Chocolates after lunch or dinner? Yes please! These cacao-enriched goodness has us wrapped around its decadent fingers and we love it. We would choose chocolates over any sweet treats for dessert any day. And this is why we were giddy…
VINTAGE BANANA CREAM PIE
Every visit to the grocery store is a tough task to do when you have different cravings from each member of the family. One in particular is that of my husband. I always cringe when my husband starts off the…
Quick Healthy Kid Dessert
This is such an easy, healthy kid dessert: Peel some mangoes and cut them up into chunks (or buy them already peeled and cut up, like I do, from Trader Joe’s). Freeze the chunks and, right before you want to…
Creamy Peach Paletas
My second grader, always imaginative in the kitchen, has asked to make ice pops repeatedly ever since we put the mold away last summer. A scientist through and through, he’s hoping to see if we can use club soda and…
Watermelon Cucumber Mint Paletas
Paletas are Mexican ice pops, typically made with fresh fruit. A popular street food also sold at shops called paleterias, some pops are sweet but others include a bit of heat with the addition of chiles. I try not to…
Easiest Dinner Party Dessert
Desserts! The time of a meal where we get to loosen things up a bit and enjoy the goodness of batter, cream, and such other ingredients and culinary mixtures. Desserts are arguably the best part of a meal. It’s…
Gluten and Nut-Free Double Chocolate Biscotti
Biscotti and I go way back. We met inside a rustic Italian farmhouse just outside of Pisa many years ago. The terrible October wind was howling as only the Tuscan wind can, and I’d just finished a long, extravagant meal with new friends. I’d…
Our Favorite Chocolate
Everyone loves a bit of chocolate in their meal. Whether it’s a chocolate flavored cake, a chocolate Candy or better still a good old chocolate bar. We can go nuts for the heavenly taste of the dark sweet cocoa melting…
Rebecca Ffrench
Former Cookie contributing editor, she’s just come out with a must-have dessert book, Sweet Home: Over 100 Heritage Desserts and Ideas for Preserving Family Recipes, which is so approachable, warm and honest, and filled with dessert recipes that you’ll put into rotation…
Game Changing Yogurt
I was at my favorite grocery store on the East Coast, Wegman’s—and saw a yogurt I hadn’t heard of before, Noosa, so I figured I’d try it out. The next day, I was with a friend who has an extremely discerning…
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FAVORITE FROSTING
Frosting or Icing is a lovely, creamy, and sweet glaze which is used to coat your baked items. With sugar, water (milk for some), egg whites, butter, flavorings, and cream cheese, you can make your desired frosting. Sometimes, rather than…