Desserts & Sweets without butternut

Promise me you'll make this? Like tomorrow? Or maybe for New Year's Eve? Just promise, ok? If you don't do alcohol, you are excused, but the REST of you...you[...]

Remember these from Maria's shower ? We talked about making the pea pods from fondant , but let me talk to you about the cake itself. The petits fours are[...]

You guys remember Cheryl , right? Cheryl blogs about food, family, photos, crafts and keeping at tidy home at TidyMom . (Yes, she does it all.) I'm lucky[...]

Have you heard of Baked ? The bakery in New York and South Carolina? Maybe you've heard of the Baked: New Frontiers in Baking cookbook. Maybe just maybe, if[...]

CHEESECAKE 1 15 oz can of pureed pumpkin , moisture removed (see below) 5 packages of cream cheese (8 oz. each) 4 whole eggs + 1 egg yolk 1/3 cup of heavy[...]

Candied pecans: 1/2 cup sugar 1/4 cup water 1 cup pecan halves, toasted Brownies: 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter 2 ounces bittersweet chocolate (54% to 60%[...]

    (This uses a 10" springform 1 stk lightly salted butter 2 x Chocolate macaroons finely grnd kosher for Pesach     Crumbs 1/4 c. Sugar. 2 lb Cream[...]

For the crust: 1 cup Original Uncle Sam Cereal ( chopped up fine in food processor) 1 cup graham crackers crumbs 1 cup brown sugar 1/4 cup crushed pecans 1[...]

Amaretto biscotti: 4 1/2 cups all purpose flour 1 tablespoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 1/2 cups sugar 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room[...]

1 1/2 ounce semisweet chocolate coarsely minced 1/4 c. cool water 1 env gelatin 4 lrg Large eggs separated 1 c. sugar 2 Tbsp. cornstarch 2 c. lowfat milk 2[...]

    CAKE LAYERS 3/4 c. Boiling water 1/2 c. Unsweetened cocoa pwdr 1 tsp Instant-espresso pwdr 1/2 c. Organic whole lowfat milk or possibly almond lowfat milk[...]

9 ounce chocolate wafer cookies 1/2 c. butter melted 2/3 c. seedless red raspberry jam 3/4 lb cream cheese softened 2/3 c. creamy peanut butter 1/4 c. sugar 2[...]

1 Tbsp. Butter 1 pkt Nabisco Famous chocolate wafers (9 ounce), fine crushed 3 Tbsp. Minced walnuts 1/3 c. Unsalted butter, melted 1 1/2 lb Cream cheese ,[...]

2 ounce Unsweetened chocolate , minced 1/2 c. Butter , cut into pcs 2/3 c. All-purpose flour 1/4 tsp Salt 1/2 tsp Double-acting baking pwdr 2 lrg Large eggs[...]

2 1/2 c. Chocolate wafer cookie crumbs 1/4 c. Granulated sugar 8 Tbsp. (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted 2 1/2 lb Cream cheese , softened 1 3/4 c. Granulated[...]