These candied pecans can turn a dessert from ordinary to wow. They make a great topping for ice cream (even better with a little chocolate), gluten-free sweet potato pie or bananas foster, one of my favorites. Elevate any savory dish…
Magic Shell
Remember the dipped soft-serve ice cream you used to love? Or maybe you still love it. That gorgeous coating of chocolate that magically hardened as soon as it hit the ice cream? It may be magic but it couldn’t be…
Gluten-Free Cinnamon Crumb
Cinnamon on anything baked is such a perfect exclamation point. The gentle spicy kick from cinnamon wakes up all the other flavors and makes your baked goods memorable. This gluten-free cinnamon crumb (aka streusel) is such a perfect topping on…
Easy Strawberry Sauce
This 3 ingredient easy strawberry sauce is a great quick way to make a simple dessert or breakfast more interesting. Use the sauce on ice cream, on a pancake with banana and peanut butter, on a plain, store bought cake,…
Strawberry Frosting
A few months ago I was trying to make strawberry frosting and used a recipe I found on-line. The recipe called for fresh strawberries and the instructions said to cook the strawberries down to reduce the water content before adding…
Vanilla Buttercream Frosting
Vanilla buttercream frosting is a pretty common recipe-and there are no shortage of recipes available. But finding just the right balance of sweet and butter is so important. I have a couple tips to offer and some variations to easily…
Vegan Chocolate Frosting
Gluten-free and dairy-free is a pretty common request from my clients. With only 2 ingredients, this dairy-free, vegan chocolate frosting is about as simple as it gets. It is essentially a whipped ganache. The mixture starts out as a liquid…
