teacher by day - chef by night
Summer in a Glass How many of you grew up on those frozen juice concentrate cans and thought that was as good as juice or lemonade or punch got!? Then, one day, you tried fresh squeezed lemonade made with real ingredients and your life changed …
Patriotic Fruit Cookie Cake – take some simply delicious Sugar Cookie topped with a light layer of Cream Cheese Frosting on pile on the freshest fruit you can find and you have a classic dessert sure to disappear. Fruit Pizza, Sugar Cookie Cake, Fruit Tart, …
This cake has more than everything you could ever want all in one cake!
Cake = check
Meringue = check
Vanilla Custard Pudding Cream = check
Fresh Berries = check
… you could even make this as two separate cakes (just don’t stack them on top of each other) – which would probably even actually end up giving you more, since people will probably take the same size piece no matter if there are one or two layers!
Before we get too far – can we just stop and admire how beautiful these are… Wait, no – don’t go! I was afraid to make these too. I mean I can pipe frosting onto a cupcake, but a ROSE – yeah, I didn’t think …
Spring is in the air. Summer is right around the corner. You struggle to eat breakfast every day. You long to spend long days dancing in the summer breezes. If you can relate to any of those statements, and maybe even like getting caught in the rain …
Cauliflower seems to be the “it” vegetable of the year! For most of my life, cauliflower was the leftover vegetable on a veggie tray, the soggy and lifeless when boiled, or just ignored on the grocery store shelves. Recently Kale and Heirloom Vegetables and Spinach and Broccoli have taken center stage – but the often overlooked Cauliflower is now here to stay! We can roast it, puree it into a soup for a healthy thickener, make a dairy-free alfredo sauce, or sautee it until caramelized.
