Desserts & Sweets with almonds

Homemade HealthyΒ Tagalongs – they can be vegan, gluten-free, sugar-free, soy-free and even grain-free! It’s Girl Scout Cookie Season. And you know what that[...]

1 lb butter 2 cups granulated sugar 3 cups sifted flour 2 tbs baking powder 10 large eggs (5 separate – when you separate this 5 eggs do not discard the[...]

Almond Flour - 1 Cup Clarified Butter - 1 Tbsp(Ghee) (If you increase this quantity cut down the quantity of water) Xylitol - 2 Tbsp or more to taste(You can[...]

For the Crust - Almond Flour Scones made out of 2 Cups of Almond Flour or 2 Cups of any cookies crushed Ghee or Melted Butter - 1/4 Cup(If using Almond flour[...]

1 1/2 cup flour 1 cup whole wheat flour 1/2 cup long-cooking oats 1/4 cup ground almonds 1/2 tbsp baking powder 2 tsp baking soda 1 tbsp cinnamon 1/4 tsp salt[...]

1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted non-dairy baking margarine (we used Fleischmann's, but you could also try Spectrum Butter Shortening) 1 1/4 cups sugar + 1/4 cup for[...]

You may have noticed, but this is "blogger baby season." No, no...not me. (My sister is pregnant with her fourth and that's as close as I'm getting.) I've[...]

I'm going to be totally honest with you. Gluten-free scares me. To be more precise, it intimidates the HECK out of me. Rice flour, tapioca starch, xanthan[...]

My favorite story about banana splits involves my dad and Uncle Mike . It seems years and years and YEARS ago, they decided to have an eating contest. They[...]

Half-birthdays. Do you celebrate them? I don't know where my mom got the idea, but we always celebrated half-birthdays growing up. There weren't presents, but[...]

{image from Mother's cookies } When my friend, Teresa, from Blooming on Bainbridge mentioned that she loves Frosted Animal Cookies, a little light bulb went[...]

6 C pitted fresh sweet black (Bing) cherries (you can use frozen cherries, thawed) 1 can of dark sweet black cherries , reserve the the juice 1/2 C cherry[...]

Cake basis: 2 dl eggs 2 dl sugar 2 dl wheat flours 1 tea spoon baking powder 3 dl frozen blueberries Fo the filling: 2 dl peach or apple juice blueberry jam 1[...]

> (American / Metric measures) < . 1/4 cup (60g) unsalted butter . 1/2 cup (50g) brown sugar, packed . 8 fresh, ripe figs (lengthwise) . . 1 cup (130g)[...]

1 cup butter , softened 1 1/4 cup confectioners' sugar 1 egg 2 teaspoon almond extract 2 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/2 bag chips (mix of chocolate and[...]