Tag: dessert

Baking, Desserts, Recipes

Honey Madeleines

Are you on team cookie or team cake? Or are you like me and happy to eat either one at any time? Now you don’t have to choose. For those of you who have never had a Madeleine, these are the perfect combination of the […]

Baking, Desserts, Snacks

Vacation Butter Cookies

My family just spent a wonderful week away together in the coastal town of Lewes, Delaware. What made this vacation so amazing, aside for having my now adult children and son-in-law all under one roof for the first time in months, was that traditionally, this […]

Breakfast, Desserts

Cherry Jam

With summer almost gone, and along with it, cherry season, I felt the need to extend it even if just for a little bit. So, recently, when I stumbled upon a gorgeous display of sweet cherries at my local farm stand, I couldn’t help but […]

Desserts, Drinks, Juices, Snacks

Kompot Float

If you have Easter European genes circulating in your bloodstream then your family, no doubt, has a recipe for Kompot. A light punch made of really any fruit that you might have on hand. In the summer months it may consist of peaches, plums, strawberries […]

Desserts, Recipes

Cherry-Almond No Churn Ice Cream

I’ve been seeing a lot of news stories lately about the fact that America appears to be falling out of love with ice cream. The amazing, cold, creamy concoction that helped people drown their feelings during prohibition, boosted spirits during World War II and served […]

Baking, Desserts, Recipes

Napoleon Torte

When my mother was in high school back in Ukraine, she worked part-time at a bakery where she learned how to decorate cakes. In particular, she became extremely skilled at piping buttercream roses. When I turned one, for my birthday, she made me a cake […]

Baking, Desserts, Recipes

S’Mores Icebox Cake

I’m sure I’m not the only one to say this but, my family loves S’mores. We have a large fire pit in our back yard and, when my girls were little, we’d roast marshmallows and assemble big sticky sandwiches with lot’s of chocolate and graham […]

Desserts

Proposal Chocolate Mousse

This mouse is so easy to make that I almost didn’t bother posting the recipe for it. However, it happens to be one of my husband’s favorite desserts, and with Father’s Day and our anniversary having just passed, of course I wanted to make it […]