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 store is a difficult task to do if you have different wishes from each family member. One, in particular, belongs to my husband. I always shudder when my husband starts to talk, “Do you know what…
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
Are you ready to make paletas?I hear you ask, what are paletas?Grab your horses.Paletas are Mexican ice pops, usually made from fresh fruit. Popular street food is also sold in restaurants, some with poppies, but others with less heat and…
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…
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 the…
GAME CHANGING YOGURT
It’s a hot, sunny day, the temperature is hitting the high 30s, mouths are dry, thirsts looking unquenchable when you suddenly remember the tub of yogurt in the freezer. That’s a lifesaver right there. From farm to fridge, these milky,…
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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…