Last weekend we stocked up on pears for something a little different to spice up our lunches and late night snacks. Sadly, they looked much better than they tasted. Not wanting to let them go to waste, I whipped up a nice lower-sugar fresh pear crisp. Dessert in our house is a complicated topic –…
Category: Desserts
Zucchini Bread
Well, it’s that time of the year again – we’re most of the way through summer and it’s zucchini mania. I honestly have a refrigerator full of the stuff. I hadn’t even realized there were so many out in my garden until our neighbor pointed out a particularly huge one that she said was perhaps…
Vegan Wedding Cupcakes
This is a historic weekend for Minneapolis – Thursday, August 1st was the first day same sex marriage was legal in our state (and in commemoration, starting at midnight, our Mayor performed 46 wedding ceremonies in 6 hours!) It’s amazing to me that just two years ago, we were fighting tooth and nail to be…
Fudge Brownies with Cookie Dough Frosting
Yesterday we had a double birthday celebration at my office, and my coworker was bringing in bacon chocolate rice krispie bars, so I knew I had a lot to compete with. Initially my plan was to go with a classic chocolate cake, which led to fudge brownies, which led to fudge brownie cupcakes, and if…
Peanut Butter Cup Bars
I live in a very closely knit community, and in the summertime, that translates to neighborhood potlucks at least once a month. People still talk about the hamburger cupcakes I brought to my first potluck in 2008, so last night I spent about an hour going back and forth about what to bring this time…
Flourless Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Last night, I thought I had my entire Saturday morning planned out: wake up around 6, have a cup of coffee, make scones using my favorite recipe, devour scones while having another cup of coffee, head for the farmer’s market, share the recipe for those fabulous scones before noon. Instead, we woke up around 10,…
Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
OK, Confession time: I had never tasted red velvet cake until everyone went red velvet crazy in 2009. In fact, several years prior, I made a red velvet cake at the request of a colleague without even knowing what it was supposed to taste like, and just assumed it was basically chocolate cake with copious…
Banana Crunch Bread
I don’t know about you, but when summer rolls around, we go a little produce crazy and end up at the local farmer’s market each and every weekend. Right now our countertops are stacked with a beautiful array of local fruits and vegetables. Sometimes this makes it hard to keep up on our old grocery…