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Category: Desserts

Secret Ingredient for the Best Apple Pie

Secret Ingredient for the Best Apple Pie

Elevate your apple pies, tarts, and strudels to a new level by adding this one simple ingredient.  Apple cider syrup will bring a new dimension of flavor to any apple filling you prepare.  This easy-to-make flavor concentrate requires only one ingredient and a little bit 

Vanilla Flan Cake

Vanilla Flan Cake

A silky smooth vanilla custard magically appears on top of a layer of moist yellow cake in this traditional Mexican dessert.  Serve Vanilla Flan Cake with fresh fruit or top it with a drizzle of dulche de leche for an authentic treat.  Easy and fun 

Honey & Whiskey Peach Tart

Honey & Whiskey Peach Tart

Tree ripened peaches drizzled with honey float in a layer of mascarpone cheese subtlety flavored with whiskey and thyme.  Incorporating some of Colorado’s best, this recipe features glorious High Country Orchards Palisade peaches, Leopold Brothers small batch whiskey, and Honeyville raw honey to create a trifecta 

Easy Bavarian Cream

Easy Bavarian Cream

Delicious thick and creamy bakery shop quality Bavarian cream is easy to make with just two simple ingredients and about five minutes.  Use the cream in between the layers of a cake, or as a pie filling.  You can also use this recipe to fill 

Red Wine Cherry Almond Upside Down Cake

Red Wine Cherry Almond Upside Down Cake

Cherries and almonds are one of natures perfect pairings and this amazing cake certainly proves the point.  Red wine and cherries cook together to form a naturally sweet layer that pairs perfectly with the biscuit-like almond cake.  No oil or butter in this recipe makes 

Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

Dark chocolate, milk chocolate, semi-sweet chocolate, and butterscotch chips fill these cookie bars with pure love.  Topped with a drizzle of salted caramel and some additional dark chocolate these bars are a decadent “dressed up” version of the beloved chocolate chip cookie.  Easier than making 

Chocolate-on-Chocolate Frosting

Chocolate-on-Chocolate Frosting

Chocolate ganache buttercream frosting is whipped until fluffy and then topped with a dark chocolate drip glaze in this 1960’s Bakers Chocolate recipe.  Using chocolate squares instead of cocoa powder, this frosting has an unparalleled deep rich chocolate flavor.  

Grasshopper Brownies

Grasshopper Brownies

Rich chocolate and cool mint mingle to create an explosion of flavor in these grasshopper brownies.  This recipe utilizes brownie mix and canned frosting to make an easy and delicious quick treat.  The combination of mint and chocolate is by no means new to the 

Bread Pudding with Spiced Rum Creme Anglaise

Bread Pudding with Spiced Rum Creme Anglaise

Bread pudding has been a long-time favorite of mine.  I am not sure where I acquired my love for this dessert, I don’t recall my mother making it, and it was not something that either of my grandmothers prepared, but thankfully somewhere along the way