Bananas are often overlooked here in Costa Rica as a fantastic basis for many desserts. Sure, we have our share of banana breads, but that’s it. This pie takes two very prolific tropical fruits and melds them into a sensational specimen of a pie. Most people have had banana cream pies or coconut cream pies,…
Mocha Chip Cookies
For awhile now I’ve been convinced that enticingly chocolate cookies could only be made possible through the addition of real chocolate to the batter. I’ve tried a handful of chocolate cookie recipes including one nearly identical to Dorie Greenspan’s “World Peace Cookies” and was still dissatisfied with the depth of chocolate flavor (exception being my…
Citrus Love
While mandarin oranges were still in season, I’d hoped to find the perfect recipe to utilize the cute little fruits. I love colorful mandarins because here where I live, they’re the only citrus fruit with a genuine pretty orange-colored peel. Zesting the yellow-green sour oranges or lemons just isn’t as visually appealing as picking up…
ChocoHolic Dulce de Leche Cake
If you’re looking for a simple, 10 minute one-bowl cake with the easiest filling and frosting around, look no further. This cake is sure to please even the toughest of critics (for one of whom this was made.) Use only your best cocoa to achieve the chocolate cake bliss, and the silkiest highest-quality chocolate you…
Mango Crumb Bars
More mango. Yes, I realize I’ve been stuck on this fruit for awhile. Bear with me, it’s in season now and I’m gonna eat all the fresh juicy mangoes I can. In crumb bar form, the mango actually gets to play center-stage showcasing it’s incredible sweetness and tropical fruit flavor. I can vouch that this…
Technique is Everything
Yesterday I learned a lesson that cost me more than a dozen cupcakes: Technique IS Everything. I began with high hopes for Old-Fashioned Cupcakes that I´d seen made on Paula Deen´s ¨Paula´s Best Dishes.¨ These basic vanilla cupcakes had rave reviews online, and seemed to be just what I was looking for. Following the directions…
Mango Cheesecake
Mangoes are one of my favorite fruits–though blueberries will always win my heart. Cheesecake is my favorite dessert. Likewise, Cheesecake Factory is my single most important food destination when I head back to the US. “What could be better,” I thought, “than to meld 2 of my most dearly loved sweet treats into one?” …
Dulce de Leche Sandwich Cookies
Husband attended an uninteresting invigorating boy’s night of Wii last Friday, while I stayed at home watching Gilmore Girls season 1 with my face slathered in a green clarifying mud mask, eating caramelized banana crepes. In hopes that in shipping dessert out with Husband would win reviews about the cookies and shrink Husband’s portion of…
Vegan Chocolate Cake
Although most of my readers are probably not of the vegan persuasion, I just have to share with you this fabulous recipe for a moist, rich chocolate cake that has won my heart and just so happens to be vegan. I stumbled upon the recipe in Midwest Living Magazine, which advertised the cake as a…
Sourdough Carrot Cake
Last year, I started my own living refrigerator culture of sourdough starter. My little pet has been a great help and very appreciated participant in many of my baking adventures. He has given lift to many a pancake, borne the long rising hours of the bread to which his name is given, shown he likes…
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