If you love a quick, easy yet impressive dessert, then these Blueberry Tarts are for you! The recipe uses puff pastry which is super simple to work with, but there are a few things to know about it. Puff pastry is basically flour and butter, so if it gets warm, you won’t be able to …
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Carrot Cake Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches
Sitting on the back porch eating ice cream sandwiches, licking the dripping ice cream from between cookie layers as it melts in the warm June air. Counting fireflies, listening to the crickets call, enjoying simple good things. This is what summer memories are made of! Carrot Cake Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches. Oh how I crave all the flavors of carrot …
Ricotta Cheesecake with Lemon & Raspberries
Happy Spring! It’s time to celebrate with a light and lovely Ricotta Cheesecake with Lemon & Raspberries! The Italians do a lot of things right when it comes to cooking and one of the best things they’ve come up with is Ricotta Cheesecake. Ricotta is lighter and lower in calories than cream cheese and though I love a good …
Linzer Cookies–Gluten Free!
I adore Linzer Cookies, and now I can have them Gluten Free? I’m in love! I’ve always been partial to heart-shaped cookies, especially this time of year. These are crisp and golden, sandwiched with sweet raspberry jam and showered with snowy white powdered sugar. Hearts are everywhere, and love is in the air 🙂 Normally, …
Gluten Free Gingersnaps-Crisp and Spicy
Gluten Free Gingersnaps. The smell is what gets me every time. The sweet fragrance of ginger and cinnamon, sugar and molasses all blending into crisp perfection in a hot oven. Of all the Christmas cookie recipes I make, the one shouting CHRISTMAS the loudest has to be Gingersnaps. I like them snappy crisp, full of pungent spice and a little bit of heat as you savor the buttery flavor. I’ve discovered a way to make them gluten free which brings great joy to my husband’s and my seriously gluten intolerant guts. (Odd to use the word ‘guts’ in a cookie post but if you’re gluten intolerant like we are, you know exactly what I mean!)…