Dessert Recipes

It’s a smart idea to have a few dessert recipes in your back pocket that you can bust out on a moment’s notice and wow some crowds or your mother-in-law. All of these dessert recipes are delicious and some are even slightly healthy! WTH!?

Maple Frozen Yogurt Recipe

About a month ago, maybe a little longer, I got a care package in the mail from a couple in Vermont, Randy and Merrilou. I’ve never met this couple. They only know me through the show. They took it upon themselves to send me a Vermont care package, just because. It was extremely humbling. In [...]

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How to Make Crepes

I recently learned how to make crepes from my mom’s boyfriend, Bill. Every year he has a crepe party for Easter. He sets up several “crepe stations” around the house and yard — an electric cooker, griddle, bowl of crepe batter — and a central table indoors, covered with different crepe fillings. The fillings range [...]

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Mango Margarita Recipe

It’s time again for the most wonderful mangoes of them all to be in season! Whoopee! (I mean that seriously.) Ataulfo mangoes are a type that have become my very favorite. I never saw them when I was a kid growing up here, but starting about 8 years ago or so, they became a regular [...]

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Chocolate Truffles Recipe

Chocolate Truffles

The first (and maybe only?) candy I ever learned how to make was this chocolate truffles recipe. Chocolate truffles are probably the EASIEST CANDY EVER. Seriously there are three ingredients and you don’t need a thermometer or even very good fine motor skills. I guess you do need a refrigerator and a few hours, but [...]

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Carrot Cake Recipe

Carrot Cake Recipe

Carrot cake is one of those wholesome desserts that reminds me of farmers’ wives and sweaty milkmaids and healthy brown-skinned farmboys. The sight of a big round carrot cake takes my mind’s eye to the bright kitchen of a big white house in the middle of a sorghum field with a blue sky out the [...]

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Caramel Corn Recipe

Caramel Corn

Someone every Christmas would send my grandma one of those big tubs of popcorn, the variety pack with plain, cheezy, and caramel corn. The caramel was my favorite (duh, isn’t it everyone’s?) with the cheezy corn coming in second. Poor plain popcorn would get fed to the birds more often than not. I mean, especially [...]

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Coconut Cream Pie Recipe

Coconut Cream Pie

If you’re ever in the enviable position of being able to throw a pie in someone’s face, please don’t let it be this one. Coconut cream pie is WAY too good to be thrown in anyone’s face, unless that person has a giganto-mouth and excellent mouth-pie coordination and there’s only one person who ever lived [...]

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Blueberry Tart

We had the pleasure of visiting Santa Monica, California last week and while we were there, finally got to shoot a video collaboration with charming Chef Anna from LovelyLadyCakes. She had this wonderful fresh blueberry tart recipe to share and, dudes, I am not kidding you. I’ve been thinking about it ever since! Once slice [...]

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