Sweet Treats
Orange Walnut Bread
Today’s post is about a tea cake with tons of fresh citrus, sweet butter and eggs. But wait…there’s more! Act now and you get toasted walnuts and a shiny, orange glaze too. So, do I have your attention? Sounds good, huh? I like this recipe because at 4pm each day I stop what I’m doing and sit down and have a cup of tea to reflect on what I’ve accomplished that day, and to contempla…
4 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies
I’m a huge fan of peanut butter. Peanut butter cookies, pie, ice cream, candy, etc… Even straight out of the jar. When I found this recipe I have to admit that I was skeptical. Only 4 ingredients (5 with chocolate chips)? And no flour? No way!! Ohhhhhhh YES!! These easy treats are my new favorite peanut butter cookie recipe. And my gluten-free-eating hubby can even enjoy them. Ingredients: Mak…
Lemon Ricotta Pancakes with Pomegranate Syrup
Lemon Ricotta Pancakes with Pomegranate Syrup will brighten any day! Moist and infused with a great citrus flavor, these pancakes make an amazing weekend treat. Ingredients: For the syrup: 3/4 cup pomegranate juice 3/4 cup water 1/2 cup sugar Zest from 1/2 lemon For the pancakes: 1/2 cup ricotta cheese 1/2 cup milk 2 eggs, separated 3/4 cup all-purpose flour 1/8 cup sugar 1/2 tablespoon baking powder 1/8…
how to make: candy apple
One of my most cherished childhood memories is making candy apple with my mom. Now I make them with my daughter. One day I imagine she will make them with her kids. Such a sweet tradition to pass along! My mom used to make them without using corn syrup and thermometer. Ingredients: 2 cups of sugar 1 cup of water 1 teaspoon of lemon juice 1/2 teaspoon of red food coloring 6 crisp, tart apples 6 dessert forks Instruc…
Breakfast Banana Loaf
“Baking is like washing–the results are equally temporary.” ― Patricia Briggs A moist, spicy, nutty bread to uplift the gloomiest winter breakfast. If you don’t have a loaf tin you can always bake it as a cake and cut out slabs in the sizes you want. Try to use overripe bananas, yes the ones with the black spots and smudgy bits (not completely decomposed though obviously). Bananas that have see…
Tahini Cookies
Dangerously delicious, delicate mini cookies. you will love these melt-in-your-mouth cookies . Ingredients: 1/2 cup tahini 1/2 cup vegetable oil 1 cup powder sugar 2 cup flour 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon cinnamon Instructions: Preheat to oven to 350 degrees F. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper. Sift flour, baking powder, cinnamon and set aside. Combine vegetable oil, tahini and 1/…
Pumpkin Crème Brulee
This looks like an excellent idea for a fancy smancy holiday dessert! I’ve never made a Creme Brulee, but I got this in my inbox the other day, and it looked pretty tasty, and not TOO complex… Ingredients: · 1 Spice Islands Vanilla Bean · 1-3/4 cups heavy cream · 1 cup canned pumpkin · 1/2 cup pure maple syrup · 10 egg yolks · 2 teaspoo…
Pumpkin Stuffed French Toast
Ingredients: 1 loaf of good challah bread 1/2 cup of canned pumpkin 1/2 cup of lite cool whip 2 tablespoons confectioner’s sugar 1 tablespoon of butter 2 eggs Makes about 6-8 pieces Hi! My name is Lauren, and I am a 22 year old young professional living in the DC area. I just started writing a DC based food blog, called Twenty Something Bites, where I write reviews of restaurants in the area, as well as pos…
Spiced Pecan Butternut Squash Bread w/Yogurt Cheese Frosting
You may notice, that I’m not one to go making up new recipes from scratch, but I do love to take someone else’s recipe and take it off on a tangent that I consider healthier or just because I don’t have whatever ingredient is called for – aka improvising. Sometimes it turns out that that’s a good tangent and sometimes, well, not. This time, it turned out pretty damn good i…
Nilla Wafer Treats
The neighborhood I live in has an annual fall chili cook-off. We gather around on a fall evening anxiously awaiting our chance to try many crockpots full of tasty concoctions. After some very serious taste testing a winner is crowned. This year I was out of town for a few days before the cook-off. I literally got back in town one hour before the gathering. I knew I couldn’t show up empty handed…so…
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