Dessert

This Crazy Chocolate Olive Oil Cake recipe has stayed with me through all the stages of my life as an easy, go to chocolate cake. …

There are many different ways to define a “healthy” recipe. Maybe you’re all about low carb, or low fat, high protein or vegan or vegetarian. …

Is your holiday baking well underway? I love this time of year and my list of things I want to make is always longer than …

Fudge Topped Peanut Butter Cookie Tarts. A roll and cut peanut butter cookie is graced with a dark, fudgy ganache and then topped with salty …

I thought I’d do a quick round up of some recipe ideas for Thanksgiving Day. You might not have your menu set, or maybe you’re …

Be honest. When you read the title, “Caramel Apple Pie Cheesecake Dip” you pictured a bowl of dip with some dippers on the side. You …

Halloween is Saturday! Yikes! I knew it was Saturday…but somehow, last Friday, I was thinking I still had two weeks. Yep, in my head, I …

Galette, crostata, galette, crostata… Tomato, tom-ah-toe? With my Blueberry Galette, I was channeling my French roots. I thought I’d give a nod to my Italian …

Well, that sure went fast! Today is the anniversary of the birth of The Merchant Baker. One year ago today, I very nervously pressed the …

I had grand ideas for this ice cream. And I actually thought, through the entire process, that it was going to be a grand fail. …

Hey!  Somebody baked me a birthday cake! Ummm, probably because I asked for it…and not in the, “Hey, do you want to bake me a …

It has never occurred to me to make a White Zucchini Cake… I’d always made zucchini cake as a chocolate cake and reserved non-chocolate zucchini …

Hey! I made us some ice cream! This is an exciting day because I only make ice cream approximately….well….let’s say….yeah, once a year :) Just …

I’ve got a fun little treat for you if you’re not in the “turn the oven on” mood…. Ice Box Raspberry Chocolate Chip Cheesecake!  I …

It’s July, so I decided to make a pie. Actually, I made a Blueberry Galette.  And I didn’t really make it because it’s July, but …

Our garden produced it’s first fruits while we were away last week. Two, to be exact. We came home to our first zucchini of the …

I posted this wonderful sauce last year when I first started this blog. The sauce is over the top amazing, but the photos never really captured how …

Strawberry Shortcake is easily one of my top five favorite desserts. Most of the strawberry shortcake I had as a kid came on top of one of those …

This is Part 2 of Mini Vanilla Ice Cream Cookie Sandwiches continued from yesterday’s post. For that post, we used vanilla wafers for all of …

I was sooo tempted to call these “Mini Vanilli” Ice Cream Cookie Sandwiches. But they’re the real deal, so we’re going straight up with Mini …

Cinco de Mayo was last week. So was the teacher appreciation lunch for which I made these amazing Dulce de Leche Brownies. That was then. …

It’s going to be 86 degrees here today. And, maybe this recipe for Vanilla Chai Sugar Cookie Bars would be more appropriate for a fall …

Everything that is wonderful about this cake is in the name. Pineapple Coconut Tres Leches Cake. Pineapple? Yum! Coconut? Yum! Tres Leches? Yes! Cake? Absolutely! …

I made a promise last week. Today I’m delivering. This is the recipe for the Whipped Chocolate Frosting I used on the Pac Man cake …

Remember Orange Olive Oil Cake? We liked it so much, I decided to try another flavor in a smaller size. With Lemon Lime Cream Slab Pie now weeks …

So, apparently, last Saturday was the ultimate Pi day of the century. And I thought, for my very first blogger Pi day, I should join …

Hey there.  I’ve got a new Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe for you. Malted Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies.  I’m not big on picking a favorite anything …

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you leftover ganache and cake crumbs, make Chocolate Stout Cake Crumb Truffles. This post is …

Hold everything! I finally baked beer in a cupcake and I LOVED IT!  I made Chocolate Stout Cupcakes filled with Irish Cream and wow, they …

I am a certified blondie lover. Some people might say they are simply a chocolate chip cookie baked in bar form.  But one bite of …

I only make Raspberry Rugelach during the holidays. But why?  It’s one of my favorite cookies.  I’ll buy them in bakeries during the year, so …

This recipe? Well, it’s been a long time coming. I received it about forever ago, which is about a hundred years, or when I was in college.  Berry Blintz …

This idea was too pretty not to share. Strawberry Chocolate Bark.  Instead of chocolate covered strawberries, we have strawberry covered chocolate.  How cool is that?  …

It’s a simple name.  Strawberry cake. I thought about calling it Fresh Strawberry Cake, but this recipe uses frozen strawberries. It could have been Natural Strawberry …

I’ve been on the hunt for a perfect brownie for awhile now. Black Cocoa Brownies were the last ones I was experimenting with when we …

Remember Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies? Well, these Soft Chewy Peanut Butter Chip Cookies are a very close relation.  I love peanut butter cookies, but to …

Now that we’re past the mid point of January, I think it’s high time we break out some chocolate…and some caramel…and some pecans… How about some …

Orange Olive Oil Cake…O.M.Y.  (Oh My Yum!) A good friend generously coined this phrase after viewing one of my recent posts.  It might be too casual a term …

So I’m supposed to be taking a bit of a blogging break over the holidays… And yet, I couldn’t resist posting this one last sweet before …

Guess where this recipe came from? An executive recruiter.  Yes.  It’s true.  I would not have this recipe for Egg Nog Ice Cream with Hot …

Andes Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies are a classic cookie made with a classic candy. The edges are a bit crisp but the overall cookie is …

I adore biscotti. There’s nothing better to dunk in my hot tea than a delicious, crispy biscotti.  It’s especially wonderful when it’s dipped in chocolate …

This is the mother of all chocolate chip cookies. Well, it’s the mother of most of my chocolate chip-ish kind of recipes.  Everyone needs a solid chocolate …

Look how pretty!  Peppermint Brownie Bark, all dressed up and ready for giving! Wait!  Too soon?  After all, it’s only been about eight weeks (!) since …

These are neither a pie nor a muffin. Just want to get that straight before we get started here.  That’s why I call them Chewy …

This is definitely pie for a crowd. Apricot Cherry Slab Pie.  I love the name. “Slab” and “Pie” just naturally belong together because if you love pie, there’s …

I’m a huge blondie fan and I really love a good peanut butter cookie. So a peanut butter blondie is right up my alley.  I will …

It’s Monday.  How about a milkshake? A Pumpkin Pie Milkshake, so it’s very November appropriate, even if it is the Monday after a possibly splurgey …