White Chocolate Peanut Butter Tiara Cake
Oct 9
White Chicken Green Chile Enchiladas
Not your average enchiladas!White Chicken Green Chile Enchiladas serves tender chicken folded into melty cheese and tangy sour cream within tortillas. (White SAUCE – think creamy béchamel – rather than just red or green sauce) Green chile enchilada sauce drapes over the top, adding creaminess and a little bit of pleasant heat to this rich…
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Oct 6
Gourmet Chicken & Mushroom Pasta
Gorgeously gourmet, but also casually comforting, this out-of-the-world chicken and thin spaghetti recipe may just be your new favorite. It’s creamy, a bit spicy, and then can be casserole baked into perfection. Pasta, shredded chicken, creamy sauce, and sautéed mushrooms with Parmesan cheese = YUM! Thank you, Karen – for EVERYTHING – your friendship, your…
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Oct 4
Vanilla Cola Sauce – Purple エッグ Vanilla Cola Sauce – Purple with Egg
Japanese sweet potato. Purple Sweet potato. Baked perfectly tender and naturally sweet – so delish! Really, NOTHING needs to top these tender treats – but, we must, in this test case. Sweet, but a bit peppery and savory with deep cola flavors and dark, black pepper – the Vanilla Cola Sauce. Nitro vanilla cola +…
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Oct 2
Apricot Coconut Thyme Butter Tarte
Tart. Torte.Tarte. TOE-MAY-TOE 🍅 TOE-MAH-TOE PO-TAY-TOE 🥔 PO-TAH-TOEBoth. Torte is a rich, multilayered cake filled with buttercreams, whipped creams, jams, mousses, fruits, or sweet icing. On the other hand, a tart is a savory or sweet pie with a bottom crust and shallow sides, and an open top that is not covered with pastry. Thus,…
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Sep 29
Chocolate Berry Fig Cookies
Is that a fig?It’s not a banana, that’s for sure.While the slices of sun-dried figs appear to be slices of dried banana, in these super yummy Chocolate Berry Fig Cookies, don’t be fooled. They are FIG-TASTIC, not banana baked goods. Most people don’t understand how great the union of chocolate and fig are. In fact,…
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Sep 27
Lemon Vanilla Cream Cheese Berry Cookies
Soft. Tangy. Aromatic. Bursts of Bright Berry.COOKIES.All sounds good, right? I’m not sure if its the addition of cream cheese frosting to the cookie dough, the combination of the lemon and vanilla extracts, the dried berries, or all of it together that creates the gorgeous union of fragrance, flavor, and feel (super soft) for these…
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Sep 25
Honey Dijon Cloud Bread
Whipped egg white cloud bread drizzled with Chestnut Honey Vinaigrette is a unique way to combine fluff, bounce, and tang in just a little light bite! Awaken your taste buds! The cloud bread serves as the foundation for this dish, reminiscent of a savory meringue. Made primarily from whipped egg whites, the “bread” is low…
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Sep 22
Chestnut Honey Vinaigrette
You know you’re in a great space when the simple, fresh, and fragrant flavors of whatever you’re consuming simply make you swoon – simple but over-the-top. THEN, you ask for the recipe and are escorted to the kitchen for not only the recipe but a full-on demonstration. Yes, that happens – not to me, but…
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Sep 20
Peppa Pig Birthday Cake
Sometimes things just don’t turn out the way you’d imagined or hoped. And, for the record, although she seems rather simple, Peppa Pig is NOT easy to incarnate in cake form.While I love to bake creative layer cakes, professional character cakes are something else altogether. They certainly are not yet my expertise. While the eyes…
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Sep 18
Chocolate Coconut Macaroon Cake Bars
Rich flavors of chocolate and coconut – yes! In a cake – yes, YES! Moist and decadent, light and fluffy, and so easy, and then also dusted with shredded coconut, the dessert is much like a cloud of heaven. You know, when you dream you’re floating, weightlessly in the firmament, slathered in melting chocolate and…
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