Dessert

Double Chocolate Hazelnut and Brown Butter Brownies

You’ll have to forgive me for taking a quick break from my Peruvian cooking.  I just couldn’t bear holding off on sharing this double...

Gluten-Free Lemon Cupcakes Filled with Lemon Curd

I’ve professed my love for lemons here at least once or twice.  And you know the only thing that’s better than a bright, lemony...

Peanut Butter Fudge

So now that you’re comfortable with the idea of making traditional fudge, let’s try one more shall we?  I can never get enough peanut...

How To Save a Botched Batch of Grainy Fudge

Bad batches of fudge happen to everybody.  At least that’s what I tell myself.  I’ve made enough successful batches now that I sometimes get...

Gluten-Free Triple Ginger Cookies

Before I went gluten-free, this Fresh Ginger Cookie recipe from Allrecipes.com was one of my very favorites.  I got a lot of requests from...

Gluten-Free Lemon-Vanilla Sugar Cookie

A happy accident turned plain lemon cookies into something extra special.  My homemade vanilla extract was just about gone and as I was pouring out...

Gluten-Free Chocolate Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies

This recipe is the happy end result from a total baking failure.  It was Thursday, November 25 2010: Thanksgiving Day.  I went against my...

Christmas Smooth and Melty Mint Toffee

Is anybody else totally smitten with these Guittard Smooth and Melty Mint Nonpareil chips?  They were one of those total impulse buys at the...

Vegan Black-Eyed Pea Coconut Rice Pudding

Does the idea of black-eyed peas in a dessert kind of weird you out?   There were no moon cakes or daifuku mochi (or any...

Date with Fate Chai Chia Pudding

Ever used chia seeds for something other than a Chia Pet?  In the book Born to Run, Christopher McDougall profiles the world’s original ultra...