Variations on Cooking

These are fun to make, a wonderful devil's food cake-like cookie. You can fill them with ice cream, a simple icing, or what I like to...

Chocolate Hazel Nut Cinnamon Rolls Ingredients 4 cups unbleached flour 1 cup whole milk or Half & Half 6 tablespoons of unsalted butter –...

As you can tell I am going through all my chocolate recipes, this one is a take-off from my Chocolate Pot de Creme, which is usually one...

Here is another recipe from 2005, I have not made this in a long while and with no flour in the stores and plenty of prepared frozen pie...

As I am sorting out all these recipes I am choosing which ones to post and which ones will go in my next few cookbooks. This recipe is...

Ingredients For the pastry: 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons of raw sugar 8 tablespoons Earth Balance, cut...

Here is a repost from 2009 - one of my classic cookie recipe - Enjoy Ingredients 3 cups unbleached flour 3 sticks on unsalted butter,...

Now this has been 6 years in the creation. when I first tried to make these i made the 4 day mole sauce with the thousands of ingredients...

Holiday Cookies

I was going through some old holiday books when I came across this very simple recipe for bark, it’s all about the melting. In the past...

Ingredients 1 2/3 cups unbleached flour 2 sticks unsalted butter, room temp 1 cup of raw sugar 1 cup dark chocolate chips 1/2 cup half &...

I had made my Chocolate Ginger Cheesecake several times for dinner parties until one of my good friends asked if I could make a tart with...

A standard dessert i serve at most of our dinner parties. Who does not like chocolate and it has the added kick of a hint of Ginger....

I received a request for this recipe. So here it is; now I have not made this since a dinner party we had several years ago and I think...

I am sure I will need to change the name if I ever use this recipe in a cookbook, but these cookies do taste like the Cherry Garcia...

My September News Letter will be the many variations of Mac & Cheese I have come up with over the years. To date, I have created 26...

One of Michaels's favorite desserts. This uses the same crust as my Pecan Pie but you can also skip this step and just use a store-bought...

Red velvet cake is a chocolate cake with either a red, bright red or red-brown color. It is traditionally prepared as a layer cake topped...

Ingredients 2 ¼ cups (12.375 ounces) flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter ¾ cup (150 grams) brown sugar ¾ cup (150...

A chocolate chip cookie is a drop cookie that originated in the United States and features chocolate chips as its distinguishing...