Decadent Flourless Chocolate Espresso Cake with Fresh Flowers and Vanilla Whipped Cream Chocolate…. If there was any ingredient that gets my attention quickly, it has to be chocolate! Rich and decadent, chocolate has the power to transform any sweet into…
Real Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
When the month of October rolls in, it seems like pumpkin-spice everything floods every bakery, & coffee shop. Pumpkin Spice… EVERYWHERE you look! I can’t fight it, so I’m going to join them! You have to have a light touch…
Beautiful Fresh Blueberry Curd Tart with Chocolate Cookie Crust
I grew up in a little grey house that always looked like it was about to trip down our hill. We abutted a closed quarry, which was some of the last open acreage in the city of Boston. Although the…
Refreshing Green Thai Basil & Lime Ice Cream
One of the best things about summer for me is that I get to grow my own kitchen herbs out on our deck. I usually have a collection of dill, cilantro, and fresh rosemary, but I always dedicate the most…
Apricot Galette with Elderflower Whipped Cream
I’ve always had to laugh at myself and my funny personality combination of traditional and carefree!! My parents were two self-avowed ‘hippies’. They lived the free~flow~free life of the sixties, but once they had children, the importance of good manners…
Red, White & Blue Shortcakes
The warm weather has finally arrived, and backyard grilling is more popular than ever. Even before everyone was spending so much time at home, I’ve watched my three little boys bond with their dad over the grill. It’s either a…
Cherry Cheesecake Macarons
If you know me in person, or have followed me on Instagram, you’ve probably heard me lament on my experiences making macarons. I LOVE those tiny almond-flour bites! Light, crisp, and filled with jam or ganache, they are my favorite…
Double Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
What’s your response to stress? Do you crank the music to eleven and jump on the treadmill? Text your friends silly memes all day, to spark a brief giggle? Clean the closets? Reorganize an already-sparkling pantry? We all have our…
Autumn Apple Pear Crumble
As the icy winds of winter rage on, my yearly temptation to curl up and hibernate becomes more and more compelling. I am a ‘cozy sweater and wool socks by the fire’ sort of girl, and always have been….
Chocolate Cranberry Bundt Cake
I think most of us have a collection of family recipes; scribbly-written and faded index cards that hide in our cupboards. Those tried-and-true dishes that were a trademark of our family dinners growing up. Recipes that bear the splatters of…
Double Dark Chocolate Cookies
There is a lot of Valentine’s Day grumpiness this time of year. Don’t get me wrong; a lot of the arguments are totally valid, and I was definitely a complainer during my topsy-turvy twenties (at least, in the romance…
Lemon Tart with Pecan Graham Cracker Crust
I’ve mentioned this in passing before, but back in the mid 90’s and 2000’s, I was a professional ballet dancer. I lived in a world of pointe shoes, barres (that is not the drink-y kind), Chopin, and Tchaikovsky. I performed…