Creamy white chocolate vanilla bean filling with a Biscoff Lotus cookie crust gets brûléed to crunchy crackly perfection and served with fruity strawberry coulis in one of our all-time favorite cheesecakes (ever). The secret to this easy cheesecake’s smooth texture and flavor is the addition of Callebaut white chocolate and […]
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Bakery Style Pan-Banging Chocolate Chip Cookies
This delicious homemade chocolate chip cookie recipe is something you might find at your favorite local coffee shop or bakery and tastes just as great! Wrinkled chocolate chip cookies get their signature look and texture from a fairly rudimentary professional baking technique known as “pan-banging”. And true to their name, […]
Best Soft & Chewy Bakery Style Sugar Cookies
This is the easiest and best homemade bakery-style sugar cookie recipe EVER! Thin, soft, and chewy sugar cookies sprinkled with crunchy raw sugar for a nice sweet contrast. Buttery soft sugar cookies are perfect any time of year, but they make especially great treats for Christmas holiday baking and snow […]
White Chocolate Salted Caramel Cheesecake With Oreo Cookie Crust
This salted caramel cheesecake recipe has it all — a super creamy tangy combination of mascarpone cheese and cream cheese flecked with vanilla bean and infused with homemade (white chocolate) salted caramel and baked into an Oreo cookie crust. Without a doubt, this is a restaurant-quality cheesecake. It’s one of […]
Soft & Chewy Strawberry-Lemon Sugar Cookies
Thin, soft, and chewy sugar cookies get a yummy strawberry-lemon upgrade with homemade strawberry sugar and lemon zest. You don’t even have to chill the dough before you bake them which means they’re perfect for last-minute holiday get-togethers (or a snow day activity with the kiddos). Sugar cookies don’t get […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]