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Pumpkin Spice Cake Donuts

November 14, 2016 by Lindsey 3 Comments

Pumpkin Spice Cake Donuts

These Pumpkin Spice Cake Donuts are packed with real pumpkin and warming spices then fried to perfection and glazed with a sweet cinnamon sugar. Pretty much Pumpkin Breakfast Perfection. I was just casually walking home from Staples the other day when {BAM!} I was hit by a massive craving for a pumpkin spice donut. I… 

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Filed Under: AHC Original Recipes, Baking, Breakfast, Cake, Desserts Tagged With: baking, breakfast, cake, cinnamon, dessert, donuts, doughnut, epicurious, Fall, fried, glaze, Holiday, pumpkin, pumpkin spice, Thanksgiving

Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake Donuts

April 11, 2016 by Lindsey 38 Comments

Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake Donuts

These old fashioned chocolate cake donuts are light and perfectly cakey with an explosion of chocolate flavor! The glaze gives them just a little extra sweetness. Perfection.  Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake Donuts are my favorite donuts of all time. Of All Time. When Krispy Kreme in Atlanta stopped serving chocolate cake donuts, I stopped going to… 

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Filed Under: AHC Original Recipes, Baking, Breakfast, Chocolate, Desserts Tagged With: breakfast, cake, chocolate, donut, doughnut, epicurious, frying, glazed, old fashioned

Old Fashioned Sour Cream Cake Donuts

February 22, 2016 by Lindsey 87 Comments

Old Fashioned Sour Cream Cake Donuts

These Old Fashioned Sour Cream Cake Donuts are UNREAL. Unreal. The inside is soft, tender and cakey; and the outside is crispy with a classic sweet glaze. Just like the kind you get at the donut shop!  And they weren’t that difficult! They are easier to mix than cake. They spend a little time in… 

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Filed Under: Baking, Breakfast, Desserts Tagged With: back to basics, breakfast, cake, dessert, donuts, doughnut, easy, epicurious, fried, frying, glaze, old fashioned, sour cream

Carrot Cake Cupcakes {Cream Cheese Frosting}

April 8, 2015 by Lindsey 74 Comments

Carrot Cake Cupcakes {Cream Cheese Frosting}

These are the moistest, most delicious Carrot Cake Cupcakes that I have ever had! They have a little crunch from toasted walnuts and the perfect hint of cinnamon! Topped with an impossibly creamy cream cheese frosting they are irresistible!  If you’ve been following along my culinary school journey on The Gram, you probably recall the three pictures… 

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Filed Under: AHC Original Recipes, Baking, Cake, Cupcakes, Desserts, Frosting / Icing Tagged With: cake, carrots, cupcakes, Easter, easy, Holiday, spring, walnuts

Pumpkin Pecan Pie Cupcakes {Bourbon Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Frosting}

October 8, 2014 by Lindsey 86 Comments

Pumpkin Pecan Pie Cupcakes {Bourbon Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Frosting}

What did I tell you? Cupcakes & Salads. These cupcakes jumped to the front of the line because if I don’t share them with you, I will positively burst with excitement! I’d like to say these cupcakes are all about the brown sugar toasted pecan crumble because it is heavenly, but that would be doing… 

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Filed Under: AHC Original Recipes, Baking, Cupcakes, Desserts, Frosting / Icing Tagged With: bourbon, brown sugar, cake, cream cheese frosting, cupcake, filled cupcakes, Holiday, pecan, pumpkin, Thanksgiving

Double Chocolate Lemon Surprise Cupcakes

September 8, 2014 by Lindsey 49 Comments

Double Chocolate Lemon Surprise Cupcakes

A rich, moist buttermilk chocolate cake is paired with a silky bittersweet chocolate Swiss meringue buttercream and filled with an easy homemade lemon curd in these fabulously addictive Double Chocolate Lemon Surprise Cupcakes! The Chocolate SMB is creamy and smooth with a delicate chocolate flavor. Unlike the American Buttercream, this frosting isn’t overly sweet – a… 

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Filed Under: AHC Original Recipes, Baking, Chocolate, Cupcakes, Desserts Tagged With: cake, cupcake, dessert, lemon, swiss meringue buttercream

Angel Food Cake with Blueberry Sauce

January 16, 2014 by Lindsey 17 Comments

Angel Food Cake with Blueberry Sauce

My husband has been asking for an Angel Food Cake like his mom used to make since we started dating. With excellent intentions I purchased a round tube pan and diligently researched recipes. This good-intentioned tube pan has languished in the back of my kitchen cabinet for 4 years (okay, fine, maybe a smidge over… 

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Filed Under: Baking, Betty Crockers Cookbook 1984, Cake, Desserts Tagged With: angel food, blueberry sauce, cake, dessert, easy, egg whites, fat free, meringue

Lemon Pound Cake with Fresh Strawberry Icing

July 4, 2013 by Lindsey 34 Comments

Lemon Pound Cake with Fresh Strawberry Icing

Happy 4th of July!!! Independence Day is one of my favorite holidays. I can’t help but reflect on the courage, vision and fortitude it took to make this Country the paragon of freedom and democracy that it is today. As a Daughter of the American Revolution I feel particularly proud to have ancestors who played… 

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Filed Under: All American Dessert Book, Cake, Desserts, Frosting / Icing Tagged With: baking, cake, DAR, fresh, frosting, icing, strawberry

Yellow Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting

May 2, 2013 by Lindsey 5 Comments

Yellow Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting

Tuesday was my fiancé’s birthday! His birthday dessert request is always yellow cake with chocolate frosting, but this year I decided to make his favorite birthday treat into cupcakes! If you have spent anytime around my fiancé and I in the past year, you are well aware of our cupcake obsession, so it may come… 

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Spiced Apple Cider Cranberry Cupcakes | Soft, moist apple cider cinnamon cake filled with spiced cranberry compote and topped with a cinnamon cream cheese butter cream! And don't forget the sugared pie crust leaf!

Spiced Apple Cider Cranberry Cupcakes

Carrots and butternut squash roasted with Harissa and Hungarian paprika covered in caramelized onions, then baked to custardy perfection in a whole-wheat tart shell. All topped with sage browned butter.

Savory Butternut Squash Carrot Tart

These Pumpkin Spice Cake Donuts are packed with real pumpkin and warming spices then fried to perfection and glazed with a sweet cinnamon sugar. Pretty much Pumpkin Breakfast Perfection.

Pumpkin Spice Cake Donuts

This easy Apple Sage Sausage Stuffing recipe will be a sure hit! The leeks, fresh herbs, apples, and spicy Italian sausage make it incredibly flavorful!

Apple Sage Sausage Stuffing

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These Chipotle Chorizo Tacos are smoky, spicy and complex! The homemade sweet potato tortilla temper the spice with a little bit of sweetness and a mezcal lime slaw brightens the flavors and pulls the whole taco together!

Chipotle Chorizo Tacos

These Pecan Puffs (a.k.a. Mexican Wedding Cookies or Russian Tea Cakes) are the perfect combination of crumbly and soft. They literally melt in your mouth!

Pecan Puffs

These Chewy Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies are soft and thick just like your favorite chewy chocolate chip cookie but packed with peanut butter flavor.

Chewy Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

These festive Holiday Spritz Cookies are a light, delicate butter cookie flavored with vanilla and lemon.

Holiday Spritz Cookies

These sensational Ginger Orange Almond Biscotti are a little bit spicy and bit sweet! They have notes of ginger, orange, cardamom and cinnamon all baked to crispy perfection. Perfect for dunking in coffee or just snacking!

Ginger Orange Almond Biscotti

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I love that each part of our vast Nation has distinct gastronomic differences, and I cannot wait to explore where we have been and where we are now with you!

These Chipotle Chorizo Tacos are smoky, spicy and complex! The homemade sweet potato tortilla temper the spice with a little bit of sweetness and a mezcal lime slaw brightens the flavors and pulls the whole taco together!
These Pecan Puffs (a.k.a. Mexican Wedding Cookies or Russian Tea Cakes) are the perfect combination of crumbly and soft. They literally melt in your mouth!
These Chewy Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies are soft and thick just like your favorite chewy chocolate chip cookie but packed with peanut butter flavor.
These festive Holiday Spritz Cookies are a light, delicate butter cookie flavored with vanilla and lemon.
These sensational Ginger Orange Almond Biscotti are a little bit spicy and bit sweet! They have notes of ginger, orange, cardamom and cinnamon all baked to crispy perfection. Perfect for dunking in coffee or just snacking!
These 5 ingredient 0No Bake Peanut Butter Cookies are soft and crunchy and chewy all at the same time! The sweet peanut butter flavor will have you reaching for another!
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