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Winter is soon upon us and you know what that means – hot chocolate season! These Hot Cocoa Macarons are delicious and almost too beautiful to eat! The filling is made of a homemade marshmallow fluff that will have your friends and family craving more!
Lemon and Blueberry Macarons are simply perfection! This is one of my favorite flavor combos for a dessert, and they pair so well together in these tiny little treats. The lemon blueberry curd really gives the macarons a pop of flavor, and they feel super light and refreshing. This is only the second time I’ve …
Madeleines, but make them festive! Chocolate and orange together is one of my favorite flavor combinations and they go perfectly in madeleines! These are ridiculously easy to make as long as you’ve got a madeleine pan at home, and chocolate dip with orange zest rounds out the dessert. These are perfect to bring to the …
For this week’s technical challenge, we’ve got a classic raspberry mille feuille! This dessert is one of my favorite pastries that GBBO has made, just based off the fact that it is so beautiful. A mille feuille is a classic French pastry made of 3 layers of puff pastry alternating with 2 layers of pastry …
These Red (Taylor’s Version) Wine Poached Pears are the classiest winter dessert – and the most decadent treat as you listen to the 10-minute All Too Well for the 50th time this weekend! Bosc pears are poached in a rich mulled wine flavored with cinnamon, clove, and other fall/winter spices and topped with a wine …
Figs have been everywhere this season and I’ve been dying to use them in a recipe! This classic fig tart consists of a few simple ingredients and about a whole Costco box’s worth of figs It’s incredibly delicious and full of flavor. The tart definitely looks harder to make than it actually is, but is …
Alexa, play Rise Up by Audra Day . The rise on these gingerbread soufflés is crazy! I always thought growing up that soufflé was extremely hard to make (they always make it look disastrous on cooking competitions), but it’s actually surprisingly easy. This is my second time making soufflés and you know I had to …
Holy crepe, take a look at those layers! Making a crepe cake has been on my list for a long time now, and due to a special request I was finally able to check it off. I’m a big fan of the Lady M cakes, and their classic vanilla flavor is still my favorite, so …
Holy crepe!!! Those who know me know that I have a huge affinity for crepes – there was a great little shop just outside of my school’s gates in undergrad that I may or may not have exhausted multiple punch card membership rewards at. They’re really easy to make at home for breakfast or dessert …
He sells seashells by the sea shore! Decided to try out everyone’s favorite seashell-shaped cake, the madeleine! These are surprisingly really easy to bake with a madeleine pan and simple genoise cake batter. What I love about them is that they’re a small, perfectly-sized dessert that’ll satiate your sweet tooth without making you feel guilty …