December is here and I’m officially in holiday mode. Fa la la la laaaaa! — Bring on the flashing lights, excessive eating, the road rage when there is a bit of snow in the air and people forget how to drive, the ice cream! Wait… what? Ya. You heard me. The ice cream! One of…
Confections / Sweets
Gingersnap Pumpkin Tart with Nutmeg Meringues
I teased y’all a bit yesterday with some beautifully delicious nutmeg meringues. Since I decided that you’d probably judge me if I said that I made a sheet full of meringues just to stand in the kitchen and eat them one by one…. that I would make something else to put them on. Thanksgiving dessert train…
Nutmeg Meringues
With Thanksgiving and fall dishes in full swing within most kitchens this week, I wanted to kick things off with something simple but unique. If you’ve looked back at a few of my recent desserts, you’ll notice that I’ve been pretty keen on decorating them with meringue. Meringue kisses, pavlovas, swirls. It’s just so much fun…
Whiskey Cream Caramel Popcorn
I’ve grown up in Kentucky, and lived in Tennessee for 6 years now. During that time, as you could imagine, I’ve been surrounded by the world’s best whiskey and bourbon. No complaints here. It’s a pretty great thing to have around. When you end up with tons of something, you start to try and create new,…
Fig Bourbon Caramel Gelato
This little figgy went to the market…. this little figgy ended up in gelato! You’ve probably noticed that I have a new found love for all things fig. I recently posted a recipe for Fig Mille-Feuille, and now I’m mixing it up in some homemade gelato. Yes. It is fall/pre-winter. Yes. I am still eating…
Maple Pecan Brittle
Stacks and stacks of crunchy caramelized sugar, packed full of pecans, walnuts, cherries, apple bits, all glazed with maple syrup and cinnamon. I’m pretty sure that I could just drop the blogger mic and be done. Brittle is one of those things that I think about all year long, but really only usually enjoy during…
Classic Cake Donuts
I’ve got a problem, y’all. A serious donut problem. I don’t know if there is some sort inner cop in me that is just now making it’s way out, a Homer Simpson secret identity, or possibly the fact that I’ve been forced into this adult life that has me out of bed at an ungodly hour…
Fig Mille-Feuille
When life gives you figs…. you become obsessed with them and make everything you can possibly think until you can barely bare to look at one again. Since we’re in the middle of fig season, I don’t feel as badly for flooding your feeds with all of the resulting recipes in the upcoming weeks. While…
How to Make a Mirror Glazed Cake
I’m sure you’ve seen them by now. Those cake finishes that should be on a wall for you to look at yourself in. Super-glossy, bright colors, almost too pretty to eat. (Almost. Nothing is ever too pretty to actually eat.) After plenty of painstaking hours of testing recipes and half-assed finishes, I finally mastered the shimmering…
Blueberry Cake Donuts
This is where I should start with some lovely story about how I went and picked blueberries on an organic farm just outside of busy Nashville one morning, carrying them home in a little wicker basket to toss them together with some other things to end up with the most perfect little homemade donuts ever. The…
