dessert

A piece of tiramisu on a white plate with gold trim, set on a wood-top counter.
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Gluten-Free Tiramisu from Scratch (Mostly)

Since the last things we made were homemade Kahlua and vanilla sugar, the obligatory recipe for today should be a dish that uses both. Today we’re making tiramisu with those ingredients, plus some eggs, mascarpone, and storebought ladyfingers. Tiramisu is a traditional Italian dessert with conflicting origin stories as to the original date, city, and […]

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Banana split with two scoops of homemade strawberry mint basil ice cream, chocolate syrup, whipped cream, a bing cherry, and mint leaves.
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Homemade Ice Cream (Strawberry Mint Basil)

Welcome back to my blog! I’m super stoked for today’s recipe, HOMEMADE ICE CREAM! In the video above, I demonstrate how to make one of my favorite recipes for ice cream, strawberry mint basil. It’s delicious. But in the recipe below, I describe the “theory” of making ice cream, complete with flavoring the base, churned […]

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Key Lime Pie

I have returned with one of my favorite pie recipes! Key lime pie, to be exact. For those readers not “in the know,” key lime pie is popular throughout the American South, though it originated in Florida. Key limes are small, tart limes first discovered in The Keys, as opposed to the Persian limes that […]

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Traditional Cheesecake with Ginger Snap Crust

Welcome back to my kitchen! I have lots of extra time to produce content around my sudden joblessness, so I thought I should make a grand celebration of my return to content creation with my recipe for cheesecake. Also, if you like the content that I produce and want to help me pay my bills […]

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Pictured: Slice of pumpkin bread with cross-section of the loaf displayed, served with a cup of coffee.
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Pumpkin Bread with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting

What do we want more than anything else during the fall? Pumpkin-flavored everything, of course! With that in mind, I developed a new recipe for my pumpkin bread, and topped it off with a complementary maple cream cheese frosting. But before we dive into our recipes, there is one other thing we should all want […]

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Picture shows a slice of pecan pie from the side, demonstrating layers of gluten-free crust, gooey filling, and toasted pecans.
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Maple Bourbon Pecan Pie for the Holidays

Fall may be the season for pumpkin spice everything, but don’t let that interfere with your enjoyment of other seasonal flavors. Not only do I make pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving and Christmas, I also make my delicious maple bourbon pecan pie! Actually, I make two of each kind of pie, and we always finish the […]

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