I am devoting an entire post to this cream because it is worthy of a post all of its own – I originally made this when I made these tartes au citron last week, and it was the perfect paring with the lemon curd.  Ha yes, last time [...]

I wanted to make something different this year for Christmas, something a bit away from our traditional desserts.  Don’t get me wrong, my dad’s pecan pie is the absolute best version of pecan pie that this world has ever seen.  But I wanted to make something a [...]

Puff pastry seems like it should be easy to adapt to be gluten free.  After all, the gluten isn’t involved in the “puffing”, all that work is done by the layers of butter within the dough and the steam pockets that arise because of it while baking.    However, [...]

This weekend I found out the astonishing fact that my husband had never made a gingerbread house before.  And I don’t just mean from scratch, I mean never ever not even with a store-bought kit.  So we decided we needed to be 6 years old again and rectify this [...]

These mini hand-held pies were possibly one of most complimented foods that I made for Thanksgiving.  I used the same pie crust recipe as I did with the empanadas a couple weeks ago, but created a caramel cream apple filling instead of the empanada filling to make them [...]