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a bite of cheesecake in a small spoon and drizzled with strawberry sauce and a biscoff crust with the rest of the cheesecake in an individual terra cotta ramekin typically used for creme cramel

White Chocolate Creme Brûlée Cheesecake w/Biscoff Cookie Crust

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 […]

a parchment lined sheet tray with just baked pan banger chocolate chip cookies with beautiful ridges all the way around multiple times from the middle to the edges like the ripples made when you skip rocks across a pond

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, […]

a sheet pan lined with white parchment paper with freshly baked sugar cookies with nonpareil sprinkles

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 […]

Slice of an amber colored white chocolate caramel cheesecake with Oreo cookie crust drizzled with homemade mixed berry sauce with a view of green mini cypress trees in the immediate background.

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 […]

A stack of 5 strawberry lemon sugar cookies on a vintage wood Venetian tray.

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 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 […]

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 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 […]