Dessert-o-licious

  Each year around this time, my hubby and I try to come up with a plan for Valentine’s Day and usually it winds up being an overpriced meal out because we’re both too tired to cook. But this year, we are staying in and I am honored to have been asked to be a [...]

As the weather here in NY starts to cool down, I’ve got one thing on my mind and that’s Gingerbread Houses! Luckily for me, so did City Harvest who teamed up with pastry chefs around the city to set up Gingerbread Houses in the lobby of Le Parker Meridien on 56th street in Manhattan. There [...]

Trying to change it up a bit from the more usual “Turkey” cookies, check out these great pilgrim cookies from Flickr! Or do both, like the photo above from jillfcs!

Cutting out cookies in various shapes and decorating them with royal icing for to give them a festive Thanksgiving feel is such a fun idea for desserts this year. We have been scouring Flickr to find you the best looking Thanksgiving cookies and will be posting them here to give you some great ideas!

Cooking a Thanksgiving meal is always a stressful undertaking, but don’t flake out when it comes to dessert! Of course, you can always choose to just go ahead and buy that Trader Joe’s pie again this year, but why not try your hand at baking something to finish off the meal? With so many great [...]

This year for Channukah I decided to kick my latkes up a bit and found this wonderful recipe for potato latkes with apple confit and crispy sage on “Food & Style” found here.

When I think about Thanksgiving, I think about eating a heavy meal followed by some heavy desserts, so this year I decided to change it up a bit and create some great light French Macarons inspired by Thanksgiving pies. The first macaron was a cinnamon macaron with a pumpkin frosting, aka “Pumpkin Pie”, and the [...]

Rosh Hasahanah, the Jewish New Year, is coming up this Wednesday evening and traditionally Jews eat Pomegranates on the holiday. This year I wanted to think of new ways to include the fruit is my families meal. It just so happens that I was recently contacted by POM to sample some of their pomegranate juice [...]

Home-made Challot are so much better than store-bought one so this year I decided to try making 2 different kinds. A whole-wheat break away challah and a Saffron-Honey challah, which were both made from the cookbook “The Kosher Baker”. The whole wheat challah took a long time to make as it has 3 separate resting [...]