Inside my recipe box
I make treats for my kids every Tuesday. The other four school days, I’m a stickler for healthy snacks. On Tuesdays, however a mid-day dessert is waiting when they come home from school. They always walk in the door asking, “What is Treat Tuesday?” and I always keep them guessing by challenging them to identify the treat by smell. The only downside of this tradition is I hear about it if I have a particularly busy Tuesday and don’t get around to making the treat. That rarely happens because I can’t stand the groaning! (OK, and I’m a sucker for their appreciation for TT’s, even into their teen years.) When you see a dessert recipe with a TT next to it, you know it was one of our Tuesday Treats!
I don’t think there is anything better than pumpkin and chocolate. Think of a dense fudgey brownie with a piece of pumpkin pie. Mix it up and you have these wonderful pumpkin-chocolate brownies. You start with a rich, chocolatey brownie batter. Next is the pumpkin …
PUMPKIN! It is finally time to make anything and everything pumpkin. I’m not the only one jumping on the orange bandwagon. There are pumpkin lattes at Starbucks (although my new favorite latte is the graham one), there were more than 6 aisles of pumpkin goodies …
You have to love a bundt cake. Great for taking to a party, easy to cut and serve, and the fluted cake is beautiful. I also happen to think that most bundt cakes could be considered breakfast or dessert. This cake with a cup of …
I’m still into spices. I can’t help it. I want to wear a scarf and tall boots, but that is just not going to happen when the thermometer continues to hover over 80 degrees. Pumpkins are in every grocery store, but I am forcing myself …