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Top Tips for How to Make Homemade Ice Cream

Top Tips for How to Make Homemade Ice Cream

We’re already getting into September when this article is rolling out. But I live in Florida, which means the summer months continue well into November. More importantly, isn’t ice cream good any time of the year? It’s even better when it’s homemade ice cream! Particularly 

Pina Colada Dessert Cups with Grilled Fruit

Pina Colada Dessert Cups with Grilled Fruit

These mini dessert cups will transport you to a tropical island in just one bite! Pina Colada Dessert Cups combine tropical flavors of the classic frozen cocktail with summertime freshness of grilled fruit. These no-bake bites come together quickly, and are certain to be your 

Grilled Fruit Pizza Bites (Peach & Strawberry)

Grilled Fruit Pizza Bites (Peach & Strawberry)

If you’ve never grilled fruit, you are in for a treat! Grilled fruit pizza can be enjoyed year-round, even though it highlights summer fruits. It’s a delicate marriage of sweet and tangy, built on your favorite type of pizza crust, making it a light and 

Grilled Fruit: Top Tips and Tricks

Grilled Fruit: Top Tips and Tricks

Summer is an awkward time for the dessert chef. Most people associate summer holidays with grilling and hot weather, and cake people know both will deflate their work in a hurry! However, there is a secret key you can use to get your desserts through 

7 S’more Dessert Tacos

7 S’more Dessert Tacos

If you’ve been following along recently, you’ve probably noticed I’ve done a few variations – or what I’m dramatically deeming a trilogy – of French tuile cookies. These all stem from s’more dessert tacos I had to create. S’mores are a familiar treat, but I 

4 Ways to Shape a Tuile Cookie

4 Ways to Shape a Tuile Cookie

I love an underdog, and in my opinion, the tuile cookie is the ultimate underdog of all cookies. That may sound a bit dramatic, but it’s totally true! A pastry friend recently stated that they were “the most underrated cookie”! The delicate French tuile cookie 

Cinnamon Honey Tuile Cookies

Cinnamon Honey Tuile Cookies

When we can bake something unexpected with staple pantry ingredients, standard baking equipment, and a little creativity, I feel like we’ve hit the jackpot! Cinnamon Honey Tuile Cookies are a prime example! Having this recipe in your cookie arsenal is going to give you tons 

Healthy Fruit & Oatmeal Breakfast Bars

Healthy Fruit & Oatmeal Breakfast Bars

If you’re like me these days, you’re scouring every last inch of your schedule in the hopes of finding more time! Sometimes that means losing sleep, sometimes that means eating breakfast bars for a meal. With these healthy fruit and oatmeal breakfast bars, you can 

How to Freeze Cookie Dough & Baked Cookies

How to Freeze Cookie Dough & Baked Cookies

FACT or MYTH: freezing baked cookies or raw cookie dough will affect the flavor and texture of the cookie. Friends, it’s taken me thirty some-odd years to realize this is TOTAL myth! I have spent days leading up to parties making dough, scooping, rolling, cutting, 

Mini Strawberry Cheesecake Cups

Mini Strawberry Cheesecake Cups

Strawberries are like the gateway fruit to summer, aren’t they? Strawberry season means Spring is wrapping up and the days are getting warmer! These mini strawberry cheesecake cups are my go-to treat when I have fresh-off-the-vine strawberries. The layered phyllo cup is a flaky alternative