A sweet and delicious fig cake with an annual celebration! *This post may contain affiliate links. Our family loves to vacation in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Ocracoke Island is at the southern end of the Banks and fig trees are abundant there. It was such a pleasure to learn about their beloved fig […]
Lime In The Coconut Icebox Cake
Read that title. Ok, now is that song stuck in your head or what? No, not yet? How ’bout now? Lime and coconut are together in this recipe, and they’re one of my favorite flavor combinations – they are also paired together in my Spicy Island Salsa with Pineapple & Coconut and in the Thai […]
Peanut Butter, Banana & Chocolate Icebox Cake
This recipe is pure indulgence. It indulges with a rich and creamy peanut butter cheesecake filling, plus banana pudding, and chocolate. Sudden random thought: isn’t peanut butter amazing? Filling and full of protein, and you can eat the stuff for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack AND dessert! Random thought complete. This dessert also indulges your desire […]
Grilled Peaches & Cream Shortcake With A Few Red Raspberries
You know it’s late spring or early summer when you see rows and rows of strawberries in clear, plastic boxes in the grocery store, flanked on either end with packages of pre-baked shortcake. Having done a stint in retail, I can appreciate an effective display of seasonal merchandise! Also conspicuous in the produce aisle are […]
Mexican Chocolate Pound Cake with Caramel Sauce
My favorite Mexican dessert flavors inspired this cake. Cinnamon which I most recently had in Mexican fried ice cream and in churros. Chocolate and chile: any time my mom sees a chocolate bar with chili peppers she grabs one for me. It’s so satisfying to sink into the deep chocolate and then feel the hit […]
¡Delicioso Cinco de Mayo Party Food Recipes!
It’s almost May 5th! Cinco de Mayo! I don’t know about anyone else, but I feel like this celebration always sneaks up on me – often on the morning of the cinco de mayo. Sometimes there is a scramble to put together a plan for going out to a bar or local Mexican restaurant. Or […]
15 Springtime Cakes & Sweets: for Easter Brunch or Anytime!
“Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.” -George Herbert The sun is shining and I feel confident saying that sweet spring is finally here! After months of hibernation it’s time to crawl out of our caves, throw open the windows and eagerly anticipate getting outside, meeting friends, gathering […]
Welcome Spring Cake
I had a lot of ideas for fun cakes to welcome spring, to bring it into being! To put an end to surprise snowstorms and unpredictable temperatures. To get those mild breezes and budding trees here now. My Easter Surprise Cupcakes and Spring Chicks Cake with Lemon & Coconut are happy with bunnies and chicks, sweets […]
Orange Mango Cupcakes
These are sweet and fruity little cupcakes! They take advantage of fragrant mangoes, cooked down into a simple jam which lives at the heart of the cupcakes. Orange zest and slices compliment the mango flavor. Though you can use any kind of orange slice to top these cupcakes, I used Cara Cara Oranges and love […]
Easter Surprise Cupcakes
It has been my quest to bring on Spring, and dream up some sweets that keep us chanting, “Think Spring!” Even as the snow continues to fall. This post may contain affiliate links. I walked the aisles of the grocery store thinking on what I flavors and ingredients I could try throwing together for a […]
Spring Chicks Cake with Lemon & Coconut
In our neck of the woods we were teased with what seemed to be an early spring that started up in late February. The snow disappeared, the air was warm, the sun was out, and all the little kids at my school gleefully ditched their snow pants and mittens. A few even came to school in shorts. […]
Mardi Gras King Cake, made with Fillables Cake Pans
For once I finally thought to look ahead to find the date for Mardi Gras, so that I could make a Mardi Gras King Cake in time for it. In years past, I never gave Mardi Gras a thought until a day or two before. Without purple, green and gold sprinkles, a plastic baby, or […]