Known and loved by many polish honey layered cake - this time in the shape of Little Mermaid. As many of you know, I don't take orders for the cakes anymore - no time baby! But for my favourite niece's birthday I am prepared to stay up all night :)


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There are many varieties of this traditional Ukrainian dish - plain wheat flour galushki, galushki with mashed potatoes, galushki with semolina. Our favorite kind is galushki with cottage cheese. Takes me 30 minutes max to fix it up, but might take a little longer if cooking for the first time.


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We are having friends over this weekend for the fourth weekend in a row.  I'm getting tapped out of dinner/dessert ideas and since it's the same couple (they're helping us with some projects), I don't want to repeat ( Read more... )

Mexican and Tex-Mex food is my all-time favorite. I love Thai, Indian, Japanese, Greek, French, Cuban - I could eat my way through just about every country - but Mexican is the cuisine I always crave. Want to celebrate Cinco de Mayo this year with a Tex-Mex feast? Above are some of my favorite recipes from around the webz, and below are 8 of my own ( Read more... )

So I had a bunch of odds & ends today, food-wise. It all started when I saw an ad for Denny’s ‘build your own French Toast ( Read more... )

I wrote a post about the adventures of being a turtle owner. It is ridiculous. You should come read it ( Read more... )

These buns are definitely a special occasion treat. They’re the best yeast rolls, soaked with butter (using my favorite Plugrá Butter), stuffed with an indulgent almond mixture, and drizzled with a sweet almond glaze. Basically, they’re insane. If you’re an almond croissant fan like me, you’ve gotta try them!


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Roomboter Banketstaaf is a traditional Dutch Christmastime treat, and it made me fall in love with the Netherlands. Flaky, buttery pastry surrounds a creamy almond filling. I topped mine with a light almond glaze and slivered almonds, but the traditional treat is often topped with a sprinkling of powdered sugar. No matter how you dress it, this ( Read more... )

This cake has All The Good Things in it: nutty brown butter; bloomed cinnamon and cloves; toasted pecans; and billowy, barely sweet whipped cream spiked with dark rum. I also used Werther's Original® Baking Caramels (Werther's sponsored my post) to make the simplest caramel sauce known to man to top the cake without a lot of fuss. The result is a ( Read more... )