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I’m pretty particular about my pumpkin pie. It can’t be store bought. I’ve had lots of different kinds, but I always come back to this one - which is straight off the label on the back of the can. Nothing beats it!
You’ll seriously never need another recipe. Best one. Hands down. The secret magic ingredient?….White Balsamic Vinegar. Vinegar in ice cream you say? Yes. It brightens the strawberry flavor and you don’t taste vinegar at all. Who’d have guessed?
True white chocolate contains cocoa butter, while white baking chips often contain palm oil or other fat. To ensure an authentic chocolate texture, use premium-quality white chocolate, often found in the candy section of your supermarket.
This ice cream is best served right out of the machine while it's still soft and creamy. It's so rich, it doesn't even need a topping.
Pistachio and Rocky Road are Mark’s favorites. Don’t let the color of this fool you. The stuff that’s bright green has food dye added to it. This stuff is the real deal.
This recipe works best with creamy peanut butter. Reduced-fat or homemade peanut butter doesn't work as well. If you prefer your peanut butter ice cream chunky, simply add a handful of chopped nuts at the end. Or better yet, some chocolate peanut butter cups. Yes…that. ;)
Laced with the chewiness of toasted, shredded coconut, this ice cream is wonderful on its own or spread in a cooked pie shell and covered in meringue, then browned quickly under the broiler for a Baked Alaska Coconut Pie.
Although cinnamon is one of the most common spices, not all varieties of cinnamon are created equal. Cinnamon varies in taste and intensity, depending on how old it is and where it was grown. This recipe calls for 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon, but you can adjust it up or down to suit your own taste and the strength of the cinnamon you have on hand.
Just like any great cheesecake, this ice cream is better the next day. From THE ULTIMATE ICE CREAM BOOK.
Though it isn't ready in 30 minutes, there's a lot that is express about this grand cake. It's even better once you've chilled it. This impressive dessert makes the most of cake mix, canned frosting, frozen cheesecake bites, and a jar of caramel sauce.
Put back in the refrigerator if you want, but remember to take it out a good 20 minutes before serving. At which stage, put the bowl on the table and, with a large spoon and unchecked greed, crack through the sugary carapace and delve into the satin-velvet, vanilla-speckled cream beneath. No more talking: just eat.
I've tinkered somewhat with the traditional flavors, adding spices to bring to this the aromatic richness of Mexican hot chocolate (or so I, in my unfounded fantasy, like to think), which tempers the uncompromising richness of the confection without losing its seductive intensity.
I like to take something familiar and bump up the flavor with high-quality ingredients. This pudding gets its flavor from good cocoa powder and imported semisweet chocolate. It's the real thing and, surprise!, it's not much harder to make than the packaged kind, and it's sooooo much better.
It's important to me that lemon bars really taste like lemon. I love the way the tart citrus cuts the sweetness of the filling. I can't begin to calculate how many lemon bars Harry Goodale has made at Barefoot Contessa over the years, but they're definitely one of our best sellers.
This ice cream tastes like one of my favorite sweets: caramel, chocolate, and pecan concoctions called "turtles". Be careful! It's so good you might not be able to stop eating it.
This is the most delicious cake to make when strawberries are in season. It reminds me of Strawberry Shortcake! The recipe makes two 8-inch cakes.
"When someone stops me on the street and says, "You know what I love in your store?" I know the answer is probably going to be these cupcakes. People are devoted to them. I'm not sure if it's the cupcake or the icing, but the combination is positively heavenly.
This is WONDERFUL stuff! You can dress it up with other fruit, such as mandarin oranges, raspberries, blueberries, mango…you name it! But strawberries continue to be my favorite.
These come together super quick due to a reliance on boxed mix and store-bought caramels.
Holy cow! Chocolate…peanut butter…and cream cheese? Uh, yes please! If you wanted to make these even quicker you could just use a boxed mix for the brownie portion, and just swirl in the Peanut Butter Filling part.
I was first served this cake at a baby shower in Louisville, Kentucky…asked for the recipe on the spot. It’s super easy to make and is requested as the birthday cake of choice for almost every birthday in our home. Our kids didn’t learn the true name of the cake until they were much older. For a very long time it was simply known as Heath Cake. ;)
You notice this doesn’t include the “cake” recipe? That’s because the cake is just a side note…any chocolate cake will do. The FROSTING is the main event! A McOmber favorite growing up…especially with only a small amount of cake below a double batch of frosting.
This is one of my dad's specialties. We love his cheesecake! We requested this constantly as kids. I once at myself sick on it, because I just couldn’t stop…it’s that good. Don’t be like me - maybe stop at 2 slices. ;) You can also make these into individual cheesecakes by pressing them into jars.
I LOVE a good Molten Lava Cake. But most of them don’t have enough “molten”. I want lots of the gooey, saucy goodness. This cake does the trick and is SUPER easy to make.
This is my mom’s gooey goodness. I was never a fan of the hard “popcorn balls”. I want the gooey, stick to your teeth caramel…and that’s what this is.
My kids say they like them even more than the Cinnabon classic. You know how the best part of a cinnamon roll is typically the gooey center? These are like that all the way through, with a yummy cream cheese frosting melted into the rolls. Our family tradition is to make these for Christmas morning, and also twice a year for our church’s semi-annual General Conference.
These make ideal holiday cookies when festively decorated with icing, but they are also delicious without any adornment. The perfect gingerbread men cookies…from Martha Stewart’s Baking Handbook.
I’ve always relied on Martha Stewart to teach me the best way to make anything…if I want it to also taste amazing! You’ll never go back to using the ready-made sugar cookie mix from the store, when you can make the best sugar cookies so simply.
This cake makes for a lovely presentation, but is also simple & absolutely delicious! We like making this as a dessert for Christmas dinner, but it would also be great for Valentine’s Day, or any day!
Rice pudding is so warm and soothing. What's not wonderful is slaving over a hot stove to get to it! This Quick Fix version is the perfect recipe for leftover cooked rice…which we always seem to have on hand after any meal that uses rice.
You probably already have these ingredients in your pantry. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel, just dessert, and sometimes that means taking what you have and mixing it all together! The sauce is also phenomenal spooned over sliced bananas.
Use this sauce recipe as a base for all future sauce creations. You can make it with any berry variety or diced fruit, such as peaches, nectarines, plums, pears, and even citrus.
Peanut butter and jelly infused into ice cream? Yup, and it's a slam dunk! Use your favorite preserves (raspberry, blackberry, orange marmalade) instead of grape, if desired. This recipe comes from one of my favorite cookbook authors for fast & family-friendly delicious meals….Robin Miller Quick Fix Meals.
I love a good Creme Brulee, & making it is even MORE fun because you get to use a torch! Here, you get to combine Creme Brulee, with a layer of chocolate at the bottom of the cup. To me that’s perfection!.
When my cousin shared this recipe with me and promised it was seriously the BEST Banana Cream Pie, I was skeptical to say the least. I’m not even a big fan of bananas. I would never eat them plain as a snack. I might like them in ice cream with chocolate. She said she was the same before this pie. I took her at her word and made it last Thanksgiving. Even with 4 other pies, this pie was gone first…so dang good.
Mark always asks me to make him his very own pecan pie for Thanksgiving. If anyone else is going to want a slice, then I better make a second pie because he’s not sharing. I’ve tried dressing this up with chocolate, caramel…all sorts of yummy concoctions. But he likes it pure and simple. This is it.
Bryan won’t let me get through a Thanksgiving without making this pie…and he usually finishes it in a day or two!
These are SERIOUSLY just like the ones at the mall. You know how with other cinnamon rolls, you tend to just eat the middle (i.e. the best part)? With these...the whole THING is like that. My kids actually think these are better than the mall ones. You can decide.