Low sugar no pectin strawberry champagne jam is an incredibly fruity homemade jam recipe you can make in under an hour!…
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Easter Cream Tart Tutorial (aka – “letter cake”)
Make this beautiful Easter cream tart for your spring table! Post includes a video tutorial with assembly tips for beautiful results every time. …
Easy, beautiful, and delicous, you can make this lemon blueberry trifle from scratch, or take a few shortcuts for a stunning semi-homemade dessert! …
A delicate lemon ricotta pound cake is perfect for baking in mini! Enjoy this Meyer Lemon Pound Cake Bites recipe with a cup of your favorite tea. …
Need an easy yet elegant dessert? Make this No Bake Matcha Lemon Ginger Tart today! Are you as in love with matcha as I am? The Godfather and I discovered matcha lattes way back in Georgia at a neighborhood coffee shop. We adored them! The earthy green tea hit the spot as far as warm drinks go. At the risk of sounding hipster, this was before matcha was trendy. 😉…
Honey roasted rhubarb olive oil muffins – lightly sweetened olive oil muffins are studded with tart sweet honey roasted bites of rhubarb. One of the top pantry staples I cannot live without is a laaaaaaarge bottle of olive oil. My mother always bought the biggest bottle at the store, so did her mother, and so do I. You look for the largest bottle of good quality extra virgin olive oil…
Mint pea couscous is the perfect side dish to welcome warmer weather! It’s finally officially warm here, darlings. I needed spring to arrive. I needed warm weather and sunshine, and fresh produce of the green variety. The Godfather and I aren’t “live in winter” people. We’re more like “visit” winter people, and while we didn’t really have “winter” per se this year, we couldn’t leave the house too often with…
Homemade gelato is ultra creamy, sweet, and this version is a unique make ahead dessert to serve in springtime! Cadbury creme egg gelato is a great way to use all that Easter chocolate! I have a confession, darlings. I’ve been holding on to this recipe for almost a year. One year. And that’s a shame, because this Cadbury creme egg gelato is amazing. But when I finally had the recipe ready…
Fresh strawberries add the perfect amount of flavor and even a bit of natural color to this fresh strawberry cake from scratch! No box mix or artificial flavoring required! As a kid, I thought you could only get strawberry cake from the box. It never even occurred to me that fresh berries could (and do) make an amazing strawberry cake! My conversion to fresh strawberry cake happened while we lived…
Inspired by the beautiful Japanese cherry blossoms in Washington DC, these cherry matcha macarons will make you think spring anytime! Darlings, it’s getting beautiful outside. We still have days that are just a bit too cool and windy for my taste, but warmer weather is coming, and with that, barbecues, pool days, summer festivals, and enough sunshine and hot weather to make this Godmother happy. But for now, I’m content watching the…
This is my favorite carrot cake from scratch recipe, I’ve been baking it for years! This carrot cake recipe has a hint of tropical flavor, but is traditional enough to have everyone come back for seconds. I wish I had a better story about this carrot cake recipe, I really do. But there was no carrot cake from scratch in my childhood, there was some amazing carrot cake from Publix…
Welcome the coming of warmer days, even on cooler evenings, with this delicious Asparagus Garlic Soup. It’s one of my favorite easy asparagus recipes to enjoy during asparagus season! Even as a kid I thought asparagus was one super cool vegetable. I think it was the shape, and the I liked the flavor. I also liked pretending the asparagus spears were sword and play fighting at the kitchen table with…