Desserts

Summer in Texas: Ice Cream & Cannonballs (and a giveaway!)

May 14, 2012

I don’t need a calendar to tell me that summer is nearly here. The days get longer, the electric bill skyrockets, we enjoy weekend lunches by the pool, evenings are capped with dinner and a beautiful sunset on the patio, and the neighborhood kids get louder with each passing day as they pile off [...]

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Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream

May 7, 2012

This is the second recipe for peanut butter cup ice cream that you’ll find here on our blog. The first one is my favorite of the two – it’s absolutely divine. It’s a rich, chocolatey base studded with chunks of homemade peanut butter cup filling and chopped peanut butter cups. How can you go wrong [...]

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PPQ: Peanut Butter Cupcakes

April 15, 2012

Peanut Butter Cupcakes with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

Jen of selected this week’s Project Pastry Queen Challenge was selected by Jen of Sweet Morris: Peanut Butter Cups with Peanut-Penuche Icing. The cake portion of the challenge is one of the better peanut butter cakes I’ve baked. The crumb is tender, without being too dense and there’s plenty of peanut butter flavor. Other peanut [...]

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Tin Roof Ice Cream

April 11, 2012

What is your favorite ice cream? Tin Roof ranks up there as one of my very, very favorite flavors. My favorite store brand (Blue Bell) has it in seasonal rotation, meaning I can’t just wake up on any Saturday morning and run to the store to grab some for breakfast. (That has never happened. I [...]

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PPQ: Tropical Carrot Cake Cupcakes

March 18, 2012

Emily of A Gilt Nutmeg selected this week’s Project Pastry Queen challenge: Tropical Carrot Cake with Coconut Cream Cheese Frosting. And like just about every other cake in The Pastry Queen, it’s a gigantic, impressive, and fabulous dessert. I absolutely love this carrot cake – it’s my second favorite recipe. It has the unusual addition [...]

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Tin Roof Cupcakes

March 15, 2012

I started out the new year on a high note, running over 20 miles during that first week and almost 100 miles in the first two months. I also made a lot cupcakes and margaritas. I might not have done them in that order, but I feel like one made the others a little better [...]

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PPQ: Individual Tiramisu with Homemade Ladyfingers

March 11, 2012

Tiramisus? I’m playing catchup with last week’s Project Pastry Queen challenge: Tiramisu with Homemade Ladyfingers, chosen by Sarah of 20 Something Cupcakes. Homemade ladyfingers are one of those things that deserve to be on everyone’s Baking Bucket List. They’re softer, more tender, and much more flavorful with a healthy dose of vanilla. They would really [...]

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Alfajore Moon Pies

March 2, 2012

Quirk Books contacted me a while back about participating in Marsh Madness to celebrate Shauna Sever’s new cookbook release, Marshmallow Madness. And I jumped all over it. Because it combines two things that are quite dear to me: Tourney-style brackets in March. And dessert. Everyone wins! Totally unlike the office pot where the intern who [...]

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