Category: Dessert Recipes

Guilt-Free Ice Cream

I was a little skeptical about this recipe. How could two ingredients create a smooth and creamy ice cream?  There is no cream, milk, eggs, or even sugar

Healthy & Light Berry Dessert Pizza

I love fruit pizza. You can decorate it to match any holiday. Store bought fruit pizza is made from a sugar cookie, cream cheese, and cane sugar. I wanted to

Homemade Rock Candy

Of all the candy that is simple to make at home, the winner is rock candy. Lollipops are wonderful, too, as are bonbons and truffles, but old-fashioned rock candy is far the simplest and the most fun. I have found…

Homemade Skinny Chocolate Cake

Be still my chocolate loving heart, a moist chocolate cake made from scratch with only three tablespoons of oil in the entire cake! Top this with some chocolate syrup and fresh raspberries and oh my, what a chocolate dessert! Ingredients:…

Homemade Soft Pretzels

Homemade Soft Pretzels Recipe! Perfect to make for the family or would make a great appetizer for a Super Bowl Party or other get together! Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups warm (110 to 115 degrees F) water 1 tablespoon sugar 2…

BURNT CARAMEL BOURBON ICE CREAM WITH TOFFEE BITS

Yes, this ice cream is every bit as amazing as it sounds. I adapted it from Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream’srecipe and what I love about it is that the base for the ice cream is egg-free but it still has all the…

The Best Humble Carrot Cake Ever

This recipe was given to me by my former boss and pastry mentor, Joe, when I worked in my first restaurant kitchen. Though other recipes typically use oil, he uses butter, which makes the fantastic flavor. You can play around…

Deep Dish Peanut Butter Pie

Oh, and then there’s the Reese’s cups. That’s really the part I’m the most interested in. Those mini ones… they’re just so cute. And they’re so small that you can eat approximately a bajillion of them! Thank goodness for my…

Donuts

The donuts are so easy to make and they are absolutely delicious!!! Ingredients:  Donuts: Rapid Rise Yeast, 2 packs Sugar, 1/2 cup Eggs,

Puff pastry

What is it about puff pastry? The mere mention of it sends shivers down every baker’s spine. Could it be the knowledge that it has 944 microscopic layers of dough and butter, which seem to break all laws of physics?…