Baking Desserts

Kick off your summer with a Memorial Day cookout, and finish it off with this festive flag cake. It looks impressive (be prepared for your friends and family to ooh and ah), but it's actually quite simple to make.Want something a little different? Try my patriotic poke cake recipe instead. It's red, white and blue inside and unbelievably moist and tender. The texture is like a tres leches cake. And unlike most poke cakes, this one doesn't use gelatin to get the color. Sign up for my Cooking...Read Full Story

I have a current fascination with baked goods that can be made within minutes in the microwave. So, when I came across these 1-Minute Chocolate Chip Muffins, I just had to share! In just a few ingredients and 60 seconds in the microwave, you can have delicious-looking muffins. These are perfect, individual-sized treats for guests -- serve in a mug or a jar to add to the fun!  1-Minute Chocolate Chip Muffins Ingredients: - 1 tsp melted and cooled coconut oil - 1 tbsp mashed ripe banana or...Read Full Story

Ingredients: 450 milliliters of milk 200 grams of flour 200 grams of sugar 50 grams of cocoa powder 40 milligrams of sunflower oil 1 pack of baking powder a small jar of cherry jelly Mix the flour with the sugar, the cocoa powder and the baking powder. Pour the milk and the sunflower oil over the flour composition and mix slowly until well incorporated. Put it in the oven at 160 degrees Celsius for 25-30 minutes. Let it cool, then slice it in two layers. Add the cherry jelly over the...Read Full Story

Homemade Brownie Recipe To me, a brownie recipe isn’t a brownie recipe unless it includes frosting! Even though these don’t, I surprisingly still enjoy them anyway. My husband is the giant brownies fan in the house. He likes the edge servings and I like the insides, so it works out very well! These came out of a cookbook that I really enjoy: Bar Cookie Bonanza, a 1982 Reiman Publications book. I just love it! Homemade Brownie Recipe Print Homemade Brownies Recipe Prep Time: 10...Read Full Story

I am not ashamed to admit that I usually make sugar cookies with a mix.  I will not touch the refrigerated slice and bake due to the after tasted of these.  However, I was feeling inspired one afternoon and decided to make some Cut Out Cookies for Easter and from scratch. Here are my little Easter Bunny Cookies... My husband is still asking me how I made those cookies.  What mix did I use.  They were replicates of cookie bouquet cookies.  Thick and soft but still flavorful.  I might add a...Read Full Story

You probably have seen it in various restaurants Chinese restaurants and different stores. This kind of cookie is different from the other kinds of cookies because of its bizarre shape and added feature: piece of paper with your fortune inside. This delight is known as the fortune cookie. The fortune cookie is a crispy cookie delight which is usually made from basic cookie ingredients which include floor, sugar and vanilla. What makes this cookie different from other cookies is that the...Read Full Story

(Photos by Pierre Metivier) Cissé Trading Co. Double Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix 3-pack Cisse – click on the image below for more information. Cissé Trading Co. Double Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix 3-pack – About Cissé Trading Co.: Sustainability tastes sweeter! Cissé (pronounced “see-say”) is about creating connections through discovery. When we connected award-winning recipes and socially responsible business values, we discovered that Cissé can do two great things: satisfy your senses and...Read Full Story