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Aiden’s Key Lime Ice Cream Cake

Aiden’s Key Lime Ice Cream Cake

Aiden’s key lime pie ice cream birthday cake is bursting with tart lime ice cream; a crunchy, buttery graham cracker crust; and layers of the most finely-crumbed vanilla-lime cake topped with fresh whipped cream.

[My] World’s Best Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Frosting

[My] World’s Best Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Frosting

My world’s best chocolate cake is a balanced combo of amazingly moist layers of rich (while not being dense) chocolate cake with light-as-air intensely deep chocolate frosting.

Berry Jam Crumble Bar Cookies

Berry Jam Crumble Bar Cookies

Berry jam crumble bar cookies, buttery short crust with hints of cinnamon and the hearty flavor of toasted oats cradling an ooey tart-sweet jam center. Perfect for picnics, lunchboxes or a random Monday afternoon.

Choco-Colada Cheesecake Recipe

Choco-Colada Cheesecake Recipe

Sitting atop an intensely chocolate cookie base is the creamiest coconut cheesecake swirled with dark chocolate throughout. An indulgent crowd-pleaser of a dessert.

Grandma Zemke’s Gingerbread Cookie Recipe

Grandma Zemke’s Gingerbread Cookie Recipe

This delicious ginger-spiced, molasses-darkened gingerbread cookie can be rolled thick and chewy or thin and crisp.  It can be adorned with frosting and sprinkles or left in its bare-baked splendor.  It can be enjoyed with a cold glass of milk or a dram of your 

Absolutely Marvelous Caramel Matzoh Crunch

Absolutely Marvelous Caramel Matzoh Crunch

Caramel-crisped matzoh topped with dark silky chocolate and slivers and crunchy almond.  Is it a cookie?  Is it candy?  Does it really matter … it’s delicious. GO TO RECIPE And it is … absolutely marvelous. Every year when I bake the matzoh crunch, I’m reminded 

Christmas Sugar Cookies

A buttery sugar cookie in its purest form.  Rolled thick for a nice softness or thin for a crisp bite, this cookie only gets more magical with a simple buttercream.  Sprinkles optional; enjoyment is not. GO TO RECIPE O holy night! The stars are brightly 

Baked Rigatoni with Roasted Butternut Squash, Sausage and Rapini

Baked Rigatoni with Roasted Butternut Squash, Sausage and Rapini

A robust pasta bake that hits all the flavor spots with juicy pork sausages, sweet roasted butternut squash, creamy-salty cheeses and just the right bitter bite from the rappini.

Uncle Frank Principe’s Italian Sausage Recipe

Uncle Frank Principe’s Italian Sausage Recipe

The picture above is of Uncle Frank and his pilfered sausage-making machine. It’s the workhorse secret weapon in the making of his Italian sausage recipe, the snap of real hog casings filled with juicy pork and the perfect balance of cheese, wine and herbs.

Lunch Lady Pizza

Lunch Lady Pizza

A soft, yeasty slab pizza with the perfect amount of crisp on the crust holding up a bright tomato sauce and loads of cheese. A real crowd-pleaser.