'Sweets & Desserts' Category
Grown-Up Hot Chocolate
I absolutely love this drink! It’s perfect for the holidays and cold weather and it tastes like a dessert, while still being fairly low-cal. It takes only a couple of minutes to whip this up, so please give it a try!
Ingredients (for 1 cup)
3/4 of a mug or cup of milk (whatever you’re serving this [...]Fruit Tart
This is a very easy recipe that’s great for entertaining! I copied Ina Garten’s recipe, which can be found here: Fruit tart recipe. Rather than copying that recipe on the blog, I will just give you a few tips and will tell you what I did differently:
Instead of using plums, I used quartered nectarines and [...]
Chocolate Zucchini Bread
I know the combination of chocolate and zucchini sounds weird to a lot of people, but this is probably the best bread I’ve ever eaten. It beats the banana-walnut-chocolate chip bread that I often bake. I got this recipe from the Producebox and will make it as long as I can find zucchinis!
Ingredients
3 large eggs
2 [...]Lemon Pound Cake
I got this recipe from one of my co-workers and decided to slightly modify it by adding a lemon twist to it. It takes a little bit of time to cream together the butter and shortening, but this is absolutely the best pound cake you’ll ever taste, with or without the hint of lemon!
Ingredients (serves [...]No time for baking?
I made this dessert for our Superbowl party this year because I was short on time, but still wanted to serve dessert. I grew up eating Nutella, but if you’ve never tried it, it’s worth the calories! A sweet treat doesn’t get any easier than this!
Ingredients (for about 12 people)
1 lb loaf of frozen or [...]No Recipe Required!
Warmer weather is just around the corner! The next time you put some meat and / or veggies on the grill, core a pineapple or use whole slices out of a can, sprinkle liberally with cinnamon and toss on the grill for a wonderful sweet treat. You can also try putting crystallized ginger on top [...]
Aloha Espresso Brownies
Ok, so I found this recipe on a canister of Rich Chocolate Ovaltine (I started buying Ovaltine instead of hot chocolate because Ovaltine does not contain partially hydrogenated oils), but I modified it a little, as I tend to do with most recipes I borrow =). I used real butter instead of margarine, added some [...]
Super Versatile Cream Cheese Frosting
If you don’t like your frosting to be too sweet, this is the perfect frosting recipe for you! The great thing about it is that you can easily change up the recipe with just a few ingredients.
Ingredients
1 8-ounce packet of Neufatel or regular cream cheese
1 cup of sugar
1/2 stick of unsalted butter
2 tablespoons of sour [...]
