We are currently in prime blood orange season so it’s the perfect time to cook up something delicious with them! Plus they are so pretty – like realllllly pretty. And if you use enough juice (which this recipe definitely does) you get a beautiful pink hue to your dessert! If you’ve never had a blood…
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Mocha Cupcakes
Jared is addicted to coffee and I am unhealthy obsessed with chocolate. Enter these mocha cupcakes, which have a chocolatey cake (with hints of coffee and cinnamon), a coffee soak, mocha frosting, and a coffee bean topper to really hammer it home. For these cupcakes, I use a swiss meringue buttercream instead of a traditional…
Peanut Butter Oreo Cream Puffs
These cream puffs are life changing. I would say that I was partial to this recipe because well, it’s mine, and peanut butter and Oreos are two of my favorite things. But Jared brought these into work one day and his colleagues said that they were just as good as I thought they were. So…
Perfect Choux Pastry
Choux pastry is a light, eggy, slightly sweet pastry that becomes hollow when it cooks. It is the base for desserts like cream puffs and eclairs. Everyone always talks about how difficult choux pastry is to master because so many things can go wrong. So this post is dedicated to making perfect choux pastry that…
Bread Pudding
Jared’s favorite dessert is bread pudding. If it’s on a dessert menu, he will be ordering it. So if I’m really wanting to do something nice, I like to make him a good traditional bread pudding. And of course you can’t have bread pudding without a sauce. You can always make a caramel or creme…
