Watch the video for this recipe: I have received a lot of requests to share with you a vanilla layer cake, and I decided to make this vanilla raspberry layer cake with Mascarpone frosting, a perfect treat for summer. The raspberries are in season now and goes perfectly in this …
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Healthy No-Bake Brownies
Watch the video for this recipe: Summer calls for no bake recipes as much as possible and as I was craving some chocolate dessert lately, I found on Pinterest some recipes of no bake brownies. The one that really caught my attention was this easy recipe from Chocolate Covered Katie …
Read More »Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream Cake
There is no better dessert in summer days than a refreshing ice cream. This time I want to share with you a great and easy recipe for an incredible and decadent Ice Cream Cake that can be easily served for any party or anniversary. No cooking is involved in …
Read More »blackberry cheesecake galette
That was close. We almost went half the summer without a new pie recipe. I do solemnly swear to never let that happen. Common cooking theory goes that galettes are a lazy person’s pie, except one person’s lazy is might just be another person having life priorities that do not …
Read More »corn bacon and parmesan pasta
Oh, hi, I am ready for summer now. What did I miss? Because the first half of this summer was so busy — a manuscript due, a redesign set off into the world, a birthday, and a zillion other bits of happy work/life chaos — I’m in this funny position …
Read More »corn and black bean weeknight nachos
I’m currently in a swarm of many behind-the-scenes things that I genuinely couldn’t be happier about even if it would also be okay if they didn’t all fall in the next few weeks (the deadline on the next cookbook, the launch at-last-so-overdue-hooray site redesign, a hopefully very cool new project …
Read More »funnel cake
For one week every spring the local Catholic church, an otherwise unassuming dot on the landscape of my suburb, turned their property into magical kingdom of lights, music, cotton candy and so many rides it was impossible to remember that all other weeks of the year it was just an …
Read More »peaches and cream bunny cake
There are parents that sew their kids’ clothes, carry them in an Ergo until kindergarten and take them to Disney World at least twice before they even reach 2nd grade, but if you don’t mind, please don’t tell my kids that such people are options, at, like, the Parent Store. …
Read More »welcome to the shiny new smitten kitchen 2.0
9.85 years ago, I decided that I was going to start a home cooking blog and that I would design the site myself, which is hilarious because my HTML and CSS skill level is equivalent to that thing you do when you don’t know which circuit on the panel blew …
Read More »Thai Chicken Burgers with Quick Pickled Carrots
This recipe features: Make healthy burgers with an Asian twist! Thai inspired chicken burgers with sriracha mayo Recipe from Make It Easy Cookbook by Stacie Billis Store-bought shortcuts makes this recipe simple for any night Home-cooked meals don’t always have to be 100% scratch. Take advantage of store-bought shortcuts, like …
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