Creamy Cranberry Orange Cinnamon Crescent Puffs

As a food blogger, you must negotiate with yourself and create quite an eccentric plan. Well, maybe not an eccentric plan, but you must work ahead of the game.There is no way I rise at 3am, bake in the dark, photograph the process and finished product, write, edit, and then post by 6am.Sorry – those…

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Vanilla Mint Chocolate Cheesecake Bars

Have you ever had one of those days when you just need to bake – for no rhyme, no reason? Comfort Baking, is what it’s termed these days. Whether or not it’s comfort food – it is simply comforting, relaxing, meditative to get in the kitchen and go! I have those days OFTEN (if not…

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Grapefruit Sage Vanilla Cake & Pistachio Chantilly

“This dessert sounds like something Ashley would make.” This was the quote, the challenge, the utterance that made my day a few weeks ago. Dear friends of mine dined on delicious dessert at a fine, fine restaurant in town. Without me. But I was there in spirit. And they shared and spilled the beans on…

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