Chocolate-Covered Banana Cheesecake Layer Cake: three layers of fudgy, bittersweet chocolate ganache, two layers of moist, delicious banana cake, one layer of a luscious, New-York-style (cream cheese and sour cream) banana cheesecake
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Salted Chocolate Chunk Shortbread Cookies
Wildly Outstanding Salted Chocolate Chunk Shortbread Cookies. What more can you say than that?
Brandied Cherry and Apple Spice Cake
This Brandied Cherry and Apple Spice Cake is homemade comfort food in a Bundt pan. It’s a delicious olive oil spice cake that deserves to be on a pedestal.
Banana Cake with Banana Cheesecake Filling
Banana Cake with Banana Cheesecake Filling: a three-layer extravaganza of delicious banana cake and New York style (cream cheese, sour cream) cheesecake
Cordon Rose Banana Cake with Lemon Buttercream and Chopped Macadamia Nuts
Cordon Rose Banana Cake with Lemon Buttercream and Chopped Macadamia Nuts is made with sour cream, eggs, and butter, and yet it’s deceptively light and airy. It is the comfort food of homemade, from-scratch cakes.
Exquisite Dark Chocolate Shortbread
Cacao nibs move these Exquisite Dark Chocolate Shortbread cookies so far to the dark side that there’s no hope of redemption. One of the most perfect recipes I’ve ever followed.
Polish Kolachy Like Grandma’s
This recipe produces the Polish kolachy that grandma made back in the day: cream cheese pastry dough with jam, jelly, or preserves (or maybe nuts) for filling, sprinkled with powdered sugar. It’s thought of as a Christmas cookie, but it’s really more of a two-bite pastry. I’ll show you how to do it.
Black Forest Buche de Noël
I made a Black Forest Buche de Noël, and it wasn’t all that hard! Granted, the only decorations were merengue mushrooms. But a chocolate-frosted, cocoa cake filled with cherries and cream doesn’t need a lot of dressing up.
Sicilian Fig Cookies
Sicilian Fig Cookies are an old-school Christmas tradition at my house. Rolled-out crescents of flaky dough with a rich fig filling. Freeze well. Fantastic recipe.