Homemade Marshmallows
Homemade Marshmallows Soft, white, fluffy clouds of vanilla bean studded marshmallow goodness is what is on the dessert menu today. Making homemade marshmallows is incredibly easy, takes few ingredients and has the most luscious rewards. These are wonderful eaten as is, dropped in a cup of coffee for a fun surprise, or better yet, in […]
Blueberry Buttermilk Cookies
Blueberry Buttermilk Cookie Cookies for breakfast? Absolutely. Especially if they include fresh blueberries in the dough and a tangy buttermilk glaze. Move over blueberry muffins, there are no cupcake liners to fill or messy cupcake pans to clean, just lovely mounds of blueberry cookie dough. These cookies are easy to prepare and can be refrigerated […]
Nutella Stuffed Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Nutella Stuffed Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies One of my most popular flavors when I started my home bakery was a chocolate chip cookie stuffed with Nutella. I improved the recipe over the last few years to include brown butter and smoked sea salt. This is the ultimate chocolate chip cookie and although it does […]
Browned Butter
Browned Cultured Butter In the previous post we made the most delicious, Cultured Butter from local Texas heavy cream. In today’s post we are kicking it up a notch by browning that beautiful butter and using it as the foundation for one of my all-time fan favorite cookies: browned butter, Nutella stuffed, chocolate chip cookie with […]
Cultured Butter
Cultured Butter Cultured Butter is Back Baby! I used to write headlines competitively for academic events when I was in high school, can’t you tell? But in all seriousness, this week I am delving into a world that has always been home for me, the dairy world. Let me explain. I started a goat dairy […]
Strawberry Shortbread Cookies
There is something about the delicateness of a good shortbread cookie that is symbolic to a cool spring morning. We don’t have very many of those in Texas but when they do come, it should be celebrated sitting on the porch with a cup of tea and a strawberry jam filled almond shortbread cookie. These […]
Texas Strawberry Jam
Texas Strawberry Jam It’s springtime in Texas, bluebonnets are blooming, farmers markets are plentiful with the bounty of local farmers, and the weather is just right. Vibrant yellows, reds and greens from tables stocked with fresh produce catch my eye every time I head into Stahlmans at Bear Creek, a farm stand just outside of […]
Chocolate Chip Peep Stuffed Easter Cookies
Take your Easter cookies up several notches with this showstopping cookie. Peep stuffed, sprinkle chocolate chip cookies is what is on the Easter dessert menu. You read that right, the best chocolate chip cookie you have ever had with the addition of sprinkles and stuffed with a delightful Peep Easter marshmallow. You don’t just want […]