Brown Butter Sweet Potato Pie
The brown butter adds a complexity to the pie that kicks it up a notch. It’s rich, it’s decadent and I hope it will find its way to your Thanksgiving table.
Poached Mirliton over Ice Cream
Mirliton is transported from a crisp vegetable into a decadent sauce that is spiced with warm notes of anise, cloves, and cinnamon. It is a perfect way to get the flavors of fall without a heavy dessert.
Chocolate Chip Cookies
These chocolate chip cookies are chewy and are light on the chocolate chips so the deep notes of toffee and vanilla in the cookie base can shine.
Blueberry Ginger Sorbet
It’s a cooling mouthful of bold blueberries that you want again and again.
Almond Meringue Cookies
They’re delightfully light and crisp with a wonderful nutty flavor.
Ice Cream and Blackberries
Nothing brings nostalgia like creamy homemade ice cream with preserves from sun-warmed blackberries. It’s decadent with warm notes of vanilla and contrasted with bright fruity flavors of blackberries.
Orange Pecan Cake with Kyya Joy Creme Anglaise
This cake is bold with an abundance of orange that is deepened with pecans and contrasted with silky crème anglaise with hints of cinnamon, vanilla, and honey. It’s a perfect flavor match to savor with a cup of tea or coffee.
Chocolate Orange Beet Cake with Cream Cheese Walnut Icing
Here’s the elegant, more sophisticated sister to the red velvet cake. It’s more orange than chocolate.
Blueberry Lime Parfait
Blueberry Lime Parfait is fruity and bright and a great way to end a hearty meal.
Pumpkin Breakfast Pudding
It’s as cooling as it is warm with the deep yet bright notes of cardamom which is accentuated by the complexity of buckwheat honey. The pumpkin brings a freshness and cottage cheese keeps it light with acidity while bringing a creamy texture.
Fig Cookies
These bites of delight are bold with dried fruit and spices and kept fresh with orange zest. The contrast of the smooth filling with the bite of fig seeds and crunch of nonpareils sprinkles gives the cookies a depth of excitement that most cookies don’t have.
Stuffed Apples
Stuffed Apples is hardly a name for such a delectable dessert that boasts the freshness of fall apples paired with the warm fall flavors of nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, and mace in one of the best custards you’ve ever had that is tied together with a crisp meringue.
Fig, Yogurt, and Almond Cake with or without Extra Figs
Fresh fig juice caramelizes around the edges of this almond cake, creating the perfect crispy pillowy contrast.
Cookie Butter and Banana Potstickers
A delicate crunch filled with banana that is made heavenly by the complexity of cookie butter. It makes for such a special dessert that no one will guess how easy it is to make.
Squash and Pistachio Crumble
It tastes like apple pie, but screams summer with its bright notes of lemon. Even people who snub their nose at squash will have smiles on their faces. I argue that this dish is more American than apple pie because apples are not native to North America and squash is.
Butter Cake with Blackberry Filling and Lemon Russian Buttercream
Sister enlightened me with Russian buttercream, something I never heard of and is made with condensed milk and butter. We paired it with my favorite standby Bonnie Butter Cake and made it “summery special” with blackberry filling.
Higos y Datiles (Figs and Dates)
I had these wonderfully glorious creamy cheese filled sweet dried fruit with pistachios and a bit of citrus to break the sweetness as a dessert at El Farol, a Spanish tapas place in Santa Fe.
