Recipes: Fruit Dessert

Blueberry Crostata

May 6th, 2012

Hello Beautiful Blueberries. Plentiful in the grocery stores, and calling my name, I just couldn’t resist falling off the healthy program wagon I have been on, and diving head first into a bubbling blueberry crostata. Wouldn’t you if this was staring back at you from the kitchen counter?

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Strawberry Rhubarb Sugar Cookie Crisp

April 5th, 2012

With Easter right around the corner, I know that many of you will be hosting the holiday at your home, or bringing a dish to someone else’s home. I urge you, right now, to volunteer for dessert. And then to make this Strawberry Rhubarb Sugar Cookie Crisp. Everyone will love and worship you for it. I promise.

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Blueberry Donuts with Vanilla Bean Glaze

March 7th, 2012

Lately it’s all about these freaking donuts. I’m sorry. I am almost over my donut binge. Just a few more recipes, and this one is SERIOUSLY worth it!

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Lemon Coconut Biscuits

February 22nd, 2012

Delicious Lemon Coconut Biscuits! Sweet little cookies perfect for spring!

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Caramel Apple Pie

November 13th, 2011

Apple pie like the mother load of comforting desserts. But I just have such a hard time leaving good enough alone. I had to take a beautiful apple pie and mess with it. And thank goodness I did.

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Apple Maple Cupcakes

October 7th, 2011

Applesauce snuck into my cupcakes last week. And it tasted wonderful ☺

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Plum Oatmeal Crumble

September 30th, 2011

This Plum Oatmeal Crumble is a dessert that I made several weeks ago, but I have to share it with you now before all of the plums are gone!

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Blackberry Cobbler with Brown Butter Topping

August 26th, 2011

This time of year, I am obsessed with blackberries. I can scarcely think of a more enticing dessert way to use them, than in a blackberry cobbler. Besides the fact that it highlights their supreme juiciness and amazing sweet flavor, it is also easy as pie! Or as cobbler?

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Strawberry Cake with Vanilla Frosting

July 25th, 2011

This is the cake I brought to a recent “joint birthday”. It was a triple-decker Strawberry Cake with Vanilla Frosting. We still have tons of ripe gorgeous strawberries and the berries coming from the local strawberry farms are so beautiful and sweet. I pureed them and baked them right into the vanilla cake batter. The cake is not too sweet, and when it is paired with sweet tartness of the strawberries and the super sweet vanilla frosting, it is wonderful.

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Fruit Crisp in a Jar

June 17th, 2011

This is my favorite fruit crisp recipe packaged in an adorable (and delicious!) new way. I am in the throws of preparing for Fathers Day Dinner, The Fourth of July and non-stop outdoor dining with the gorgeous weather we are having. I have also had a recent surge in requests for picnic friendly food. This “fruit crisp in a jar” fits the bill for every one of those events.

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