Category: holiday desserts

  • Hershey’s Candy Cane Blossoms

    Hershey’s Candy Cane Blossoms

      You know that saying: Don’t judge a book by it’s cover? Well, I’d like to meet the puritan who came up with that one to have a word or two. Because we’re going to judge a book by it cover even if we don’t want to! As a book publishing graduate, I study the…

  • Santa Hat Party Mix

    Santa Hat Party Mix

      I like alliteration. I like sequins. I like punny jokes. I like Palm Beach fashion. I like a bit of camp. Isn’t it obvious? I like a good gimmick. So by the time Christmas rolls around, I’ve already been bookmarking festive recipes for months. This one jumped right out at me on Pinterest because…

  • Martha Stewart’s Pumpkin-Chocolate Tiramisu

    Martha Stewart’s Pumpkin-Chocolate Tiramisu

      If you love pumpkin, if you love chocolate, heck even if you just love cake, you will love this dessert. I found this recipe after doing some Googling to find a way to use up my leftover pumpkin puree. And I’m so very glad I took a chance on this revamp of the classic…

  • Pumpkin muffins with cinnamon streusel

    Pumpkin muffins with cinnamon streusel

      I was in Boston to attend a conference last month and I entered Trader Joe’s to grab a bottle of water. I had five minutes to get in and out. In the span of those few seconds on the way to the cash register, I ended up grabbing a bottle of organic agave syrup, a store-brand brownies mix,…

  • Frosty vanilla snowflake cake

    Frosty vanilla snowflake cake

    It had been a while since I felt the burning ambition to decorate a cake. Lord knows I’m all about shortcuts these days — which is why when I saw this in the Kraft Kitchens’ holiday edition I knew this recipe would be quick to bake, slower to decorate. And though the purists may be choking…

  • Chocolate Mousse Igloo

    Chocolate Mousse Igloo

      This chocolate mousse igloo would be the ideal dessert to make with young children, but perhaps not the most sophisticated dessert to serve your adult guests. I decided to make this recipe after seeing a photo for it in one of the Kraft Kitchens magazines, but even before I began the ingredient list made me…

  • Paula Deen’s Pumpkin Gingerbread Trifle

    Paula Deen’s Pumpkin Gingerbread Trifle

      I first discovered the recipe for this trifle months ago. But I knew that the only time I could get away with serving a dessert as decadent, as creamy, as luscious, as gooey, as spicy, as flavourful as this one was during the holiday season. And so I flagged this recipe way back then…

  • Nigella’s Christmas Cornflake Wreaths

    Nigella’s Christmas Cornflake Wreaths

      Growing up, Rice Krispie squares were an exotic treat. Celebratory desserts, at our house, were more likely to be baklava, or kenefe (a sweet cheese pastry made with kadaif), or perhaps melomakarona (Greek honey cookies). So, I will admit that I have never ever made Rice Krispie treats and the prospect of making these Christmas…

  • Chocolate Gingerbread House Petits Fours

    Chocolate Gingerbread House Petits Fours

      If you are looking for Christmas cheer, you will be disappointed, tonight. I’m rather more Grinch-like than Cindy Lou-like tonight, but with good reason. In less than two months I’ve had bronchitis – twice – and my son’s sick with his own eye and ear infections. I’m nearly at the end of my rope…

  • Halloween creepy cobweb cupcakes

    Halloween creepy cobweb cupcakes

    I’m so very behind on my blogging, I have a number of cookbook reviews on hold as well as some fabulous desserts but I can’t resist posting a photo of these creepy cobweb cupcakes because they are timely and I am a journo and I am nothing if not timely. After all, I have a pumpkin…