Classic Lemon Meringue Pie

You’ll love this chunky Sourdough Granola with pecans and maple syrup. Use your sourdough discard to make healthy and delicious granola. This recipe can be adapted with the ingredients you have on hand. This granola is abundant with wholesome ingredients like oats, pecans and pumpkin seeds. It has just a hint of maple sweetness and …

Malted Milk Skill Cookie! Baked in a cast iron skillet, the cookie is crisp around the edges and gooey in the middle. It and has a wonderful flavor from malted milk powder and lots of chocolate chips. Scroll through the process photos to see how to make a Malted Milk Skillet Cookie with chocolate chips: …

Red Velvet Bundt Cake is not just a red velvet cake baked in a different pan. This cake is buttery like a pound cake and has the lovely flavor of a true red velvet cake. Oh, and that cream cheese filling! Traditional Red Velvet Cake is made with oil and the batter is quite wet. …

Chocolate Mousse Pie! A crunchy Oreo cookie-crust is filled with light and luscious dark chocolate mousse. The pie is topped with a mountain of vanilla scented whipped cream and homemade chocolate curls. Because we can’t have too many pies in the world, and because we can’t have too many chocolate desserts, I give you Chocolate …

Chocolate and vanilla Checkerboard Cookies are not extremely difficult to make, but it does take several steps to create the pattern. These cookies are not only adorable, they’re buttery and delicious. There are relatively few ingredients in this dough. These checkerboard cookies are basically a type of shortbread cookie. We rely on good butter, sugar, …

Oooo, Molten Chocolate Cakes! Also known as Chocolate Lava Cakes, these warm, chocolatey cakes with an oozy-gooey center will never go out of style. Molten Chocolate Cakes, which have been popular since the 1980s, are a cross between a soufflé and a sponge cake. The key to the liquid center is to just bake it …

Salted Caramel Eclairs! Crisp pastry shells filled with luscious salted caramel pastry cream and topped with a glaze of salted caramelized sugar. In a professional pastry kitchen we don’t reinvent the wheel for every single dish. We have a repertoire of what I call “essential recipes”.  Pate a Choux and Pastry Cream are two of …

Chocolate Macarons are delicate and delicious little bites of heaven. Use dark cocoa powder in the macaron shells then sandwich the cookies with Milk Chocolate Ganache to create layers of chocolatey goodness. Have you been afraid to make French macarons? You can do it! Follow my recipe exactly, read through the tips and look at …

Silky Milk Chocolate Ganache has just 3 ingredients and comes together in mere minutes. Use it to make truffles, to fill a cake or as a glaze. The possibilities are endless. You can use Milk Chocolate to make Ganache! I bet when you hear the word “ganache” you immediately think of a luscious, dark chocolate treat …

They say “less is more” and this elegant Pear Custard Tart is a perfect example of that sentiment. Pears have an understated flavor which are perfectly enhanced by vanilla bean custard and a crackly caramelized sugar glaze. Tips for making a perfect Pear Custard Tart: Use a fluted tart pan with a removeable bottom for …