DessertCast Iron Pecan Blondies
It felt like a blondie brownie kind of
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DessertCaramelized Peach & Bourbon Cobbler
Besides Dolly Parton and Lynyrd Skynyrd, two of the best things to ever come out of the South, have to be peaches and bourbon. It's no secret I love bourbon, so when I...
DessertMildred's Homemade Toffee
Back in 2004, I was working at Southern Living magazine in Birmingham, AL. When I needed a toffee recipe for a story I was working on, I looked to no other than my...
DessertCherry-Nut Cookies
When it comes to Christmas cookies my family tends to stick to some tried-and-true recipes we make every year. Every few years mom would slip a new cookie or two into...
DessertSesame Seed Cookies
In the baking world, Christmas cookies tend to have Type A personalities; pushy, demanding attention, rigidly organized and highly status conscious. So every once in a...
DessertSugar Cookies
Two of my favorite things in life came out of Iowa; these cookies and the person who gave me the
DessertBlondie and Dark Chocolate Marbled Brownies
A new neighbor just moved in so I thought I'd bring over some brownies as a welcome gift. After I got these marbled brownies done I seriously thought about keeping them...
DessertThumbprint Cookies
The Christmas cookie extravaganza continues with the winner of the 1988 Chicago Tribune's Christmas Cookie Contest: Fay Kuhn's Thumbprints, substituting dairy-free...
DessertChocolate Pinwheels
One of my favorite Christmas cookies is Chocolate Pinwheel refrigerator cookies. My mom has been baking ever since I can remember. (Last year she made and froze over 44...
DessertDairy-Free Pie Crust
The best and easiest pie crust you'll ever make is from Cook's Illustrated . I love the magazine and cookbooks but they're not known for simple recipes but trust me,...
DessertGerman Chocolate Cake
Rich, dark and insanely chocolaty cake layers are topped with a creamy, crunchy coconut-pecan topping. I couldn't think of a better way to celebrate my birthday
DessertBlueberry Peach Cheesecake Tart
Every two years the peach tree in my grandmother's backyard would produce so many peaches, my mother and whoever was around, would spend days peeling and slicing peaches...
DessertChocolate Peanut Butter Cake
"Two great tastes, that taste great together!" It was true 30+ years ago and it's still true today in cake
Breakfast/BrunchCinnamon Spaetzle with Apples and Cranberries
I love taking traditional recipes and giving them a little twist. In this case, I've taken a Bavarian spaetzle, typically served as a side dish for dinner, and turned it...
DessertDairy-Free Tres Leches Cake
According to my sister, when my nephew had his very first bite of Tres Leches cake, "His eyes started to sparkle, a huge smile appeared on his face and pure joy radiated...
DessertChocolate Sauce So Good You'll Eat It With A Spoon!
Imagine eating something so good your eyes roll back in your head and you can't help but sigh. It happens to me every time I make this sauce. Although it's fantastic...
DessertSalted Pecan Chocolate Chubbsters
About a month ago my niece asked me to help her enter a baking contest in her hometown. How could anyone say no to that? She wanted to make something really chocolaty...
DessertSpiced Rum Peach and Raspberry Cobbler
Remember the Sesame Street game "One of these things is not like the other?" In the Williams-Sonoma corporate office, Tre Balchowsky was the one who didn't fit the mold....
DessertCranberry Pistachio Bars
For years my dad has said we should only make two kinds of cookies for Christmas; Chocolate Pinwheels and his favorite, Chocolate Chip. For some reason I just can't wrap...
DessertRecipe Redo: Southern Living's Two-Step Pound Cake
FYI, Southerners take pound cake very seriously. So much so that when I was interviewing for a position in the Southern Living test kitchen, one of the things I was...