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Italian Recipe: Homemade Cannoli. Italian Recipe: Homemade Cannoli Of all the mouthwatering dishes to come out of Sicily, cannoli might just be the best known and best loved.

Italian Recipe: Homemade Cannoli

Few can resist that decadent ricotta filling, the flaky pastry that surrounds it. 60 Second Chocolate Chip Cookie A la Mode. I had so much fun developing this recipe. Talk about kinda dangerous though. This baby is baked in 60 seconds, no lie!! The cookie dough recipe is prepared right in your ramekin, so we are also talking about minimal dishes. Win win, right? Almost-instant sweet wine ice-cream. How To Make Croissants [Chocolate Croissants, Pumpkin Spice Croissants, and Cinnamon Sugar Croissants] Just Cook It. Brown Sugar Blueberry Cookies. Certain things happen when you bake cookies that taste like muffins.

Brown Sugar Blueberry Cookies

Cookies become breakfast food. Midnight snacks too. You pass them off as two servings of fruit. Or three. You sleep-eat cookies. Nutella-Mallow Pillow Pockets. When I tell you this, take me very seriously…..run, don’t walk to your nearest grocery store and make these today!

Nutella-Mallow Pillow Pockets

I knew I wanted to make a Nutella treat the other day and when this simple idea came to mind I had no idea how crazy good it would be! The pastry with the gooey disappearing marshmallow and nutella make for a treat that you just must try for yourself! Enjoy! Can you handle this line up?! Sorry, I forgot to add one egg for the egg wash. Macarons. A lot of people get the wrong impression about macarons and avoid making them because they’re supposedly the most difficult thing in the world to make.

Macarons

Truly, they’re not difficult at all. What is difficult is mastering them. For some reason people mistakenly think if something can’t be mastered on the first try, it’s too hard to fool with. But there’s no reason to master macarons on the first try. Unless you just burn the crap out of them, they’re going to taste phenomenal regardless of their flaws. Each time one of those things happen, you have a chance to learn about what went wrong with your technique if you want to learn. How to make macarons - some tips and tricks. For those of you who read this blog regularly, you will know that macarons are one of my obsessions.

How to make macarons - some tips and tricks

Some of you may remember a couple of my early attempts (here, here, and here), then the epiphany of the class at Lenôtre in Paris. How to Pipe Icing Roses. I baked this spring bouquet of cupcakes for my Weekend Baker post on the Cooking Channel blog.

How to Pipe Icing Roses

I was limited in space and wanted to go into a bit lot more detail on how to pipe the icing roses. Creating these flowers is not at all difficult, but it helps to have some simple tricks of the trade. With a little practice and the right tools you can easily recreate these flowers. The contrasting color that tips the petals is one of those easy tricks that takes them from ordinary roses to extraordinary.

Blue-Eyed Bakers - Blue Eyed Bakers. Booze-infused Cupcakes to Lift Your Spirits. Hot Chocolate on a Stick {Gift Idea} Romancing the Stove. Cookies and Cream Peanut Butter...Midnight Snack. Need a midnight snack?

Cookies and Cream Peanut Butter...Midnight Snack

Or anytime snack for that matter, my cookies and cream peanut butter might just knock your socks off. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Peanut Butter Cups. Soooooo… you know that episode of Sex and the City where Miranda has to dump dish soap on top of chocolate cake just so she will stop eating it??

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Peanut Butter Cups

Uh. Yeeeeeah. Sea Salt Ice Cream Recipe - Food.com - 177919. The Brownie Project.

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Pie. Brownie. Cupcake. Cookie. Cake. 3 Things I Learned from a French Laundry Alum - Powered by Tofu. I don’t care if cake pops are the new cupcakes.

3 Things I Learned from a French Laundry Alum - Powered by Tofu

I despise them. Pie pops I could probably get behind, but cake pops… no. Pumpkin Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting. Le Petit Ogre: Cinnamon Sugar Pull-Apart Bread. The new year is all about eating healthy isn't it?

Le Petit Ogre: Cinnamon Sugar Pull-Apart Bread

Well for me, a heathy body includes a healthy mind. And sugar is one of those necessary things to sustain a healthy mind. It is almost a daily consumption for me. And I don't mean eating a whole apple pie or chocolate cake, but a cookie or a (heaping) spoonful of Nutella. Of course some days I will indulge more than others, and when that happens you eat a bit more broccoli or bike a little further. Well this cinnamon sugar pull-apart bread from Joy the Baker certainly has the right qualification to sustain a healthy and happy mind. I mean who doesn't love cinnamon, sugar, and soft yeasty bread, that you pull apart and let sing in your mouth. Eight Fatty Snacks To Lose Weight.

Craving a snack? Put down that bag of chips and step away from that chocolate chip cookie. Instead, try these eats, which are loaded with healthy fats that help control hunger and promote weight loss. Design Crush & Popsicles! Not to sound full of myself, but I’m pretty sure this is the be all, end all of popsicle roundups. There’s a little something for everyone: the foodies, the purists, the ones who prefer frozen yogurt, the ones who prefer a little alcohol, everyone.