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A special post today in collaboration with Portland Spicy Peanut Butter. These Smoky Chili Peanut Butter Cookies are a fudgy, sweet and savory treat best enjoyed warm from the oven with a glass of milk. Spice it up a little and Keep Portland Weird with this quick bake! Note: If you can’t find ground guajillos,…
A simple dessert that’s rich and light at the same time. With pink hues that are sure to delight the eye, and fresh, juicy raspberries harmonizing with the toasty, fruity notes of ruby chocolate. My mousse-like version has a few more steps than a traditional fruit fool, but it’s still quite quick and easy to make and has the added benefit of being more stable! Ruby chocolate raspberry fools are perfect for finishing off a fancy dinner or as a romantic Valentine’s Day treat. This recipe makes just enough for 2, but it doubles or triples easily if you want to make it for a group.
So, one great thing about being an adult is that no one can stop you from adding cookie butter to your patisserie. These rich mini peach tarts with cookie butter frangipane are truly irresistible from the bottom of their crisp, buttery shells to the top of their peach-adorned frangipane crowns.
Brownies are the bomb, but they do tend to be an empty-calorie sort of bomb. Sometimes, that’s perfectly fine, but wouldn’t it be nice to make them more often without sacrificing all of your dietary principles? While not low-calorie, my wholesome brownies are almost entirely made from whole foods, which means the calories aren’t empty at all, but rife with nutrients and fiber. In fact, the only added fat or sugar in the recipe is the modest handful of chocolate chips.
This red velvet crepe cake is a fanciful, decadent treat. With a firmer, springier texture than a regular cake, the impressively thin red layers hold a surprising quantity of luscious cream cheese creme patisserie.
Redolent with brown butter and bourbon, moist and chock full of fruit, these bars are the best of butterscotch blondies and apple pie rolled in one–and would be delicious a la mode, I’m just saying.
Compote–a dish of stewed fruit–is great with things like yogurt, pancakes, waffles, ice cream, etc. This exceedingly easy recipe eschews the usual sugar syrup instead using raisins for an added bit of sweetness.