Nutty brown butter, white miso, and creamy peanut butter create a cookie that is all about salty sweet balance and punchy flavor. These brown butter miso peanut butter cookies are a bite of wow! These cookies have a crunchy, sugar and sesame seed coated exterior and a chewy center. The addition of white miso creates…
Blackberry Lavender Scruffins With Honey Glaze
Imagine tender, fluffy vanilla scruffins bursting with fresh blackberries and a touch of lavender. Add sticky honey buttermilk glaze to the mix and you’ve got an incredible breakfast or brunch bake. These blackberry lavender scruffins with honey glaze have a sturdy crunch that gives way to a soft, fluffy, and muffin-like center. These are simple…
Baked Red Velvet Donuts
Tender and fluffy, these beautiful baked red velvet donuts are kissed with cocoa and smothered in cool cream cheese frosting. These donuts are made quickly in one bowl, so they’re simple enough for beginning bakers and for times you want a dessert in under 30 minutes. I made these on Great Day Live Tampa for…
Quatre Epices (French Four Spice) Palmiers
Crispy, delicate, buttery layers of puff pastry are dusted with French Four Spice, sliced, and then baked to caramelized perfection. These Quatre Épices Palmiers are intoxicating, bold, and a jazzed up take on one of my favorite classic French pastries. Now while I love a giant cookie, I like my palmiers to be delicate. Ever…
BBQ Chicken Bacon Naan Flatbreads
These bbq chicken bacon naan flatbreads are cheesy, sweet yet tangy, saucy, and loaded with flavor! They are reminiscent of the bbq chicken pizza I used to eat at California Pizza Kitchen. This recipe differs since it has bacon and uses naan bread as a base. These little flatbread pizzas are easy and quick to…
Mascarpone Tart With Pretzel Graham Crust
Fresh berries and smooth Mascarpone cream fills a salty, sweet, and crunchy crust for an easy dessert that is ideal for all occasions. This mascarpone tart with pretzel graham crust is simply dreamy! With a short ingredient list, it’s also easy and quick to make. What I love about semi-bake desserts like this easy mascarpone…
Pain Aux Raisin With Rum Glaze
Flaky, buttery, swirled layers of croissant dough with rum raisin pastry cream and an optional rum glaze is a flavorful twist on classic pain aux raisins. Pain Aux Raisin is simply a spiraled, flaky, French pastry that is similar to raisin bread in laminated pastry form. The following recipe is a holiday rum raisin flavor…
Brioche Biscuits With Blood Orange Glaze
Layers and layers of buttery, tender brioche bloom into a French breakfast biscuit. These treats are much like my brioche Feuilletee meets biscuits. Finished off with a sweet and tangy blood orange glaze, they are a beautiful way to start your weekend or holiday morning. These biscuits are flaky, delicate, and the layers are begging…
Homemade Cronuts (Laminated & Layered Donuts)
There’s nothing like homemade cronuts (laminated donuts). Layers and layers of crispy, buttery yeasted laminated dough that yield a tender bite are cut and fried into croissant like donuts! Cronuts can be turned into any flavor of your choice by the glaze and topping you want. This post includes maple bacon cronuts and chocolate glazed…
Mini Cheesecakes With Greek Yogurt
Mini cheesecakes with Greek yogurt are creamy, cool, cute, and crowd pleasing! the Greek yogurt adds a touch of tanginess and flavor while also lightening up the texture of the cheesecakes. They feel whipped, silky, and dreamy. Bonus, these take less than 30 minutes from start to finish! When I do my Show Me St….