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small Weck Jar with beautifully dark berry sauce in it

10-Minute Homemade Berry (Licious) Sauce

Make this sweet homemade berry sauce to top your favorite cheesecake, pancakes, meringues, or even yogurt. Don’t waste your money on storebought syrups or sauces that are filled with unnecessary stuff. All you need is frozen or fresh berries, lemon juice, and sugar. The best part — this sauce is […]

Pumpkin mascarpone tart topped with pecans on a cutting board.

Pumpkin Pie Mascarpone Tart With Pecan Crunch and Biscoff Crust

This all-natural Kabocha pumpkin pie pecan tart is a cross between a classic pumpkin pie and pumpkin cheesecake. Oven-roasted Kabocha squash gives this pumpkin pie recipe a natural sweetness and nuttiness right out of the gate.  Add velvety smooth mascarpone, a little heavy cream, homemade pumpkin pie spice, and this […]

pumpkin pie spice on two spoons (one spoon has McCormick's brand pumpkin pie spice and the other is my homemade spice blend with a small bottle of McCormick's in the background and also a small Weck hermetic jar containing my homemade pumpkin spice each behind their respective spoons

How to Make Homemade Pumpkin Pie Spice (McCormick’s Copycat)

With just 4 ingredients, this homemade Pumpkin Pie Spice recipe couldn’t be easier to make (or taste more like the original). This pumpkin spice blend is based on my all-time favorite — McCormick Pumpkin Pie Spice. The balance of cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and allspice makes a perfect addition to all […]

happy and angry-faced ghost meringues on an orange and white checkered tea towel with bowl of crisp red and green apples in the background

Halloween Ghostbuster Meringues (Spooky & Delicious)

Who Ya Gonna Call (when you’re looking for the best Halloween recipe ever)?  Ghostbuster meringue cookies make any Halloween dessert a little bit spooky and everyone smile! These feather-light, crunchy confections taste great all by themselves, but they make a perfect dessert topper for cheesecakes and taste great floating on […]

a whole cheesecake topped with cute fat ghost meringues

Spooky White Chocolate Caramel Cheesecake w/Ghostbuster Meringues

Boo! If you’re looking for a Halloween Cheesecake dessert that both kiddos and adults will love, this silky smooth white chocolate caramel cheesecake will do the trick. This fall cheesecake recipe is a treat for the whole family. Ample chocolate Oreo cookie crust is filled with a homemade white chocolate-caramel […]

A weck canning jar filled with bright hot pink homemade strawberry sugar

Strawberry Sugar (With Video & Vegan Strawberry Sugar Option)

This strawberry sugar is sweet, tart, and full of real strawberry flavor! It’s the only strawberry sugar recipe you’ll ever need. With just 2 ingredients (freeze-dried strawberries and granulated sugar), this is one of my favorite flavored sugars to make.  It’s ideal for adding summer strawberry flavor to strawberry recipes […]

a slice of Apple rum cake with a golden crunchy pecan topping next to another slice on a sheet of white parchment paper in the sunlight

Easy Apple Rum Cake with Pecan Crunch

Cinnamon and apples have always made sense, but adding a little rum, vanilla bean, and a buttery pecan-crunch topping adds a whole new dimension to this apple-licious dessert. This homemade apple cake recipe is bakery-level good and almost as easy as a boxed mix. It’s incredibly moist and full of […]

a tall wide mouth Ball Mason Jar with silver lid and band full of dark vanilla beans covered in vodka and looking dark and beautiful like an extract on top of a wooden dining table with the white marble fireplace lined with a row of cooking books from end to end in my old brownstone in Brooklyn

How to Make Homemade Vanilla Extract

If you’ve ever wanted to make your own homemade vanilla extract it’s easy and requires just 2 ingredients plus a little time. I started my first jar of homemade vanilla bean extract in April of 2012 in my kitchen in Brooklyn and it’s traveled with me from NYC to China […]

Biscoff Peanut Butter Cups (Even Better than Reese’s)

These easy and delicious homemade peanut butter cups with a twist are for anyone who loves chocolate, peanut butter, Biscoff cookies, or Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.  A mixture of 70% dark chocolate and milk chocolate makes up the base. A layer of crunchy crumbled Biscoff cookies adds both texture and […]

a top down view into the glass jar filled with Cornflake Crunch

Crispy Cornflake Crunch (the perfect dessert topper)

Cornflake Crunch is milky, buttery, (deliciously crunchy), and just plain good.  It takes all your baked goods up a notch and it’s also a perfect topper for your favorite ice cream, gelato, or breakfast yogurt. Plus, you probably already have a box of Cornflakes in your pantry just waiting to […]

a stack of three brownies on top of each other with a layer of golden brown cornflake crunch on the top of each one

Super Fudge Biscoff Brownies w/Cornflake Crunch

This is pure brownie dessert heaven. It might even be our favorite brownie recipe of all time. It starts with my Better Than the Best Chocolate Fudgy Brownie batter that’s dotted with creamy Biscoff cookie spread and 70% dark chocolate chunks. Finally, it’s layered inside and topped with a Momofuku […]

6 golden fried pies resting on a cooling rack

Crispy + Flaky Southern Fried Cherry Pies (Best Ever)

These are possibly the best fried pies you may ever eat♡.  Fried to perfection, this light and flaky buttermilk dough is filled with homemade sweet cherry pie filling and dusted with powdered sugar with a hint of cinnamon.  The “secret ” ingredient in the dough makes these cherry hand pies […]

closeup of a single devil's food cake cupcake next to the others frosted with a thin layer of glistening dark chocolate ganache frosting with pink, turquoise, lilac and orange jimmies and green balls with a few nonpareil sprinkles

Super Moist Devil’s Food Cupcakes (w/Chocolate Ganache Frosting)

This signature Devil’s Food Cupcake recipe is easy to pull together and consistently makes the most tender (super) chocolatey crumb. It looks like it came from a box and is almost as simple to pull together, but is 100% scratch-made and tastes every bit like Grandma used to make. It’s one […]

a vintage aluminum 1 teaspoon measuring spoon holding a scoop of lemon sugar above a bowl of freshly chopped deep red strawberries

Homemade Sicilian Lemon Sugar

When life gives you Sicilian lemons, make 2-Minute Homemade Lemon Sugar! If you’re a fan of using every part of a good ingredient, then this simple lemon sugar is one way to get the most out of your lemons. We use a lot of this citrus fruit around here for […]

a vintage aluminum pie tin filled with zested and juiced Sicilian Tarocco half blood oranges with a microplane filled with orange zest, an angular glass jar filled with blood orange sugar, empty orange halves stacked up in the back, with a whole orange on the left and a glass of carrot-colored orange juice on the right in a Venetian glass with polka dots on it and a tulip wide top.

Sicilian Blood Orange Sugar (Italian Sunshine in a Jar)

Whether you’re the type of person who doesn’t want to waste a single part of a really good ingredient, or you just want to add a little sunshine to your baking (or your minibar), this quick and easy blood orange sugar recipe takes less than 5 minutes to make. If you […]