Tag: holiday

This Salted Turtle Fudge Pie is a decadent twist on a classic candy. It eats like a mashup of a traditional Southern fudge pie and a pecan pie — a thick, rich, dark‑chocolate custard on the bottom, a buttery caramel loaded with toasty pecans on top, and just a...

My Triple Chocolate Cheesecake is a true show-stopper dessert. From the crisp chocolate cookie crust to the ombré layers of velvety dark, milk and white chocolate cheesecake, to the elegantly marbled ganache topping it’s a chocoholic feast for the eyes and taste buds. This recipe actually began its life...

Home cooks have been pairing peanut butter with chocolate for over a century and H.B. Reese cemented their fame with his invention and the commercial release of the Reese’s Peanut Butter cup in the 1920s. However, peanut butter pies — with or without chocolate — didn’t truly take off...

A warm cinnamon roll is undeniably magnificent – but one that’s made with pillowy soft pumpkin brioche, layered with more pumpkin, warm spices, caramel, toffee and pecan and topped off with a generous drizzle of maple-cinnamon cream cheese glaze is on an entirely different level. I know I’ve been...

Despite the moniker of “French” Silk Pie, this incredibly indulgent, richly chocolate dessert is about as American as they come. The recipe was originally developed in the early 1950’s by a contestant, Betty Cooper, in the third annual Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest – it was, in fact, a $1,000 winning...

I cannot remember a Thanksgiving (or Christmas) dessert table that was not graced with pumpkin pie in one form or another. When I was very young, I remember mom making her classic pumpkin pie and, of course, my maternal grandmother had her own version she served for holiday meals...

Apple pie bars, apple bars, apple slab pie, French apple squares, or simply apple squares, this large, rectangular format adaptation of the classic apple pie is literally a crowd pleaser serving anywhere from two to three times the number of people as a standard 9″ inch pie. Just like...

This is the cheesecake of my childhood. It is the first cheesecake I ever remember tasting – I cannot remember a year that mom did not make this particular cheesecake. As introductions to cheesecake go, you can’t go wrong with this one. It is essentially a New York style...

York Sensation (or Sensational) Brownies have been around since at least the late 1980’s, gaining popularity throughout the 1990’s (which coincides with my memories of mom first making these brownies when I was in high school) and continuing to appear all around the internet today, including ‘official’ versions on...

Have you ever looked at a thumbprint cookie and thought it was a bit of a tease? How much filling can realistically be contained in a thumbprint? I’ll tell you, not very much at all. Most thumbprint recipes call for a scant 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of filling, barely...