Dessert Recipes
Chocolate Guinness Cupcakes with Bailey’s Buttercream
Chocolate Guinness Cupcakes – scroll down for printable recipe Listen up because I’m about to tell you about the secret ingredient for the most moistest and deliciousest chocolate cupcakes in the Whole Ding-Dong Wuuurld! I first had these, or a version of them, at the Austin Bakes for Bastrop fundraiser we volunteered at last year.…
Read MoreStreusel Pear Cake: Old Lady Recipe #3
My mama might kill me for calling this an Old Lady Recipe, since she used to make it all the time, even before she was an old lady. (Just kidding, MOTHER!) So if I turn up dead tomorrow, you know who to blame. (Just kidding, MOTHER!) But all seriousness aside, folks, this here is one…
Read MorePink Grapefruit Pie
Still rocking the free Rio Star grapefruits I got from TexaSweet, I started thinking about some grapefruit pie. I searched high and low until my fingers fell off and my eyes started bleeding, but the only recipes I could find for “grapefruit pie” involved strawberry gelatin. While I’m sure that’s a great recipe – why else would…
Read MoreFlourless Chocolate Cakes – Gluten Free Chocolate Cake Recipe
Flourless Chocolate Cake video – scroll down for recipe Subscribe to my YouTube channel to get notified of new videos. It’s a magical gluten free chocolate cake! Hold on to your tumtums, everyone! This is gonna be a wild and chocolatey ride! The Choc-Island line is back on track! We’re on the 2:10 to Yummy!…
Read MoreNutterBallerz – Peanut Butter Banana Cookies
Gather round, ye nut-lovers, and hear this tale of how the Nutter Baller came to be among our fleshly bodies. That sounded gross. I apologize. I hope you’re still here so I can just tell you about this cookie that FAMOUS PASTRY CHEF ZAC YOUNG told me to make. He told me to make a…
Read MoreMexican Hot Chocolate
Dudes, listen up, okay? Stop what you are doing. Seriously. You guys? Pay attention, please. I have to tell you about this very important thing called Mexican Hot Chocolate. This is the best hot chocolate you will ever have in your life and I am not even lying right now.
Read MoreBourbon Pecan Pie Recipe
[Ed note: I really need to take new pictures of this bourbon pecan pie!] Subscribe to my YouTube channel to get notified of new videos. As the only granddaughter living in the same city as my paternal grandmother, I was the one gifted with her mother’s recipe collection last year. It brings me incomparable joy…
Read MoreAll-Butter Pie Crust Recipe
I’ve heard more nice things about my pie crust recipe over than years than I should say here lest I seem a braggart. Pie crust has a bad reputation, but it needn’t. There are only three absolute requirements to any pie crust: fat, flour, and liquid and once you understand the science behind it you’ll…
Read MorePumpkin Cake Donuts!
YAYAYAY!!!! Halloween is almost here! My FAVORITE HOLIDAY EVERRR! I LOVE SATAN!!!! Just kidding about that last part. I do love Halloween, though. Big-time. I love gory makeup and spooky sound effects and fake blood and ripped-off arms and popped-out eyeballs and skulls and teeth just sitting there chattering on a table, not even inside…
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