Recipes
Gingerbread Cake with Crystallized Ginger Glaze
How can any holiday baking marathon be complete without everyone’s favorites, gingerbread men...
Raspberry Chocolate Truffles
Oh Boulder, how I love you, but this week I'm in Malibu, and I must say … a person could get used to this. I'm here for a little bit of Dessert Diva work and a whole lot of Dessert Diva play — they tend to be one and the same most days of the week, and I'll take it...
Fresh pasta and vegetarian Bolognese
Italian Americans are always talking about how they are Italian, bragging about their mother’s marinara, and mispronouncing Italian words in cheesy accents...
Chocolate Peppermint Cake with Minty Glaze
Well, I might have said last week was my final holiday recipe. But don’t worry, readers, I have one more left for ya...
Flourless Chocolate Cake with Zesty Orange Whipped Cream
They say true love is hard to find, but I must say I have never met a chocolate I didn’t truly love. I would never say I wouldn’t snag up a Hershey bar every now and then, just because a chocolate snob might be mortified, but I must admit, I do like good, quality ...
Yummy Mummy Cookies
Well, it’s that time of year again. Ghouls, goblins and high-fructose corn syrup...
Minneola Orange Toasted Walnut Cake
Oh January, you’re a cold one, but you have been very good to me...
Chocolate Raspberry Parfaits
Gooood morning, Phoenix! Oh wait, I still live in Colorado. These temperatures are messing with my mind. I don’t know why I’m so over the heat this summer — we still have a long way to go. Perhaps it is that my dessert line has me in the kitchen 24/7, and baby...
Honey Ginger Pumpkin Pie
Yes my friends, the time has come. A whole month of pumpkin desserts...
Cranberry Trail Mix Bread
Happy trails, hit the trail, get along little doggie. Maybe that last one doesn’t apply, but I like it, so there. This week’s treat will sustain and satisfy: Cranberry Trail Mix Bread. Similar to banana-bread-minus-thebananas. It is chock full of cranberries (...





