For me, somehow this became the year of the epic blood oranges. First I found them for really cheap at TJ’s and made a salad dressing and upside down cardamom cake. Then I started getting loads of them from a family friend’s tree and made sparkling juice and marmalade. Yes, my popsicles are awesome rocket […] Read more…
Archive of ‘Dessert’ category
S’mores Cupcake Ice Cream Sandwiches
S’mores + cupcake + ice cream sandwich = the perfect summer dessert! When I made marshmallow ice cream, I polled you and my Facebook fans to decide whether I should put it into a s’mores cupcake or a homemade Hostess cupcake for the Ice Cream Cupcake Contest hosted by Cupcake Project and Scoopalicious. The overwhelming […] Read more…
Homemade Marshmallow Ice Cream
Edited to add: I ended up making S’mores Cupcake Ice Cream Sandwiches (and S’mores Popsicles) with this Homemade Marshmallow Ice Cream! It’s finally warming up here in Northern California. Up until last week it was raining, which is pretty unusual here. The sudden warm up is perfect timing for the annual ice cream cupcake contest at Cupcake Project. […] Read more…
Chocolate Avocado Milkshake
Now, I know what you’re thinking…what business does an avocado have in a chocolate milkshake? It seems like a weird idea, although in Vietnam and the Philippines it’s not uncommon to have an avocado milkshake (often with ice cream or sweetened condensed milk). This version of an avocado milkshake is actually really healthy. There’s no […] Read more…
Simple Sugar Cookies
Yesterday I was having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Well, it wasn’t that bad, but it wasn’t good either. Then I checked my email and found two sweet messages left on some old posts. Comments are always nice, but especially when someone takes the time to come back and say how much […] Read more…