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Shoofly Pie

November 25, 2016 by Lindsey 16 Comments

Shoofly Pie

This shoofly pie has all the flavors of a molasses ginger cookie mixed with a buttery streusel in a flakey pastry crust. The rich, spicy, sweet filling just melts in your mouth bite after bite (slice after slice) When Chef hints about his favorite kind of pie (hint, hint: it’s shoofly), you make a mental… 

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Filed Under: AHC Original Recipes, Baking, Desserts, Pie Tagged With: Christmas, crumble, dessert, easy, easy desserts, epicurious, Fall, heritage, Holiday, molasses, old fashioned, pie crust, Thanksgiving

Pumpkin Spice Cake Donuts

November 14, 2016 by Lindsey 4 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

Homemade Marshmallows

October 27, 2016 by Lindsey 7 Comments

Homemade Marshmallows

Instantly elevate your hot chocolate, s’mores, or campfire game with these homemade marshmallows! They are soft and fluffy, and perfectly sweet with just a hint of vanilla. Marshmallows: just sugar, gelatin and little bit of magic. Ok, fine. It’s science. But the results are 100% magical. These little pillows of delight should come with a… 

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Filed Under: Baking, Candy, Desserts, Snack Tagged With: candy, Christmas, Christmas Cookies, Christmas gift, cookies, dessert, easy, epicurious, fat free, gelatin, gluten free, Holiday, holiday gift, homemade, old fashioned, vegetarian

No Bake Whiskey Smores Pie

July 30, 2016 by Lindsey 20 Comments

No Bake Whiskey Smores Pie

This No Bake Whiskey Smores Pie is a slice of Summer Heaven! There are layers of dark chocolate whisky ganache, milk chocolate mousse and fluffy toasted marshmallow in the perfect graham cracker crust. Go ahead…help yourself to another slice. I should have called this pie “You’ve Got What I Need.” It is my everything right… 

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: bourbon, cream cheese, dessert, easy, easy desserts, epicurious, Fall, fast, ganache, graham crackers, Holiday, marshmallow, no bake, pie, pie crust, Piecrust, Summer, whisky

The BEST Hot Chocolate

March 23, 2016 by Lindsey 17 Comments

The BEST Hot Chocolate

This hot chocolate is incredibly rich, creamy and silky. It is decadence in a mug. Deep dark chocolate is balanced with a little salt to temper the sweetness and to enhance the chocolate flavor. Happy Spring! Okay, now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, we can get to the chocolate. Because this is… 

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Filed Under: AHC Original Recipes, Baking, Breakfast, Chocolate, Desserts, Snack Tagged With: chocolate, Christmas, dessert, easy, egg yolk, epicurious, fast, Holiday, marshmallow, snack, Winter

Irish Soda Bread

March 15, 2016 by Lindsey 4 Comments

Irish Soda Bread

This Irish Soda Bread is tender and just a little sweet. Nothing is better than a thick slice fresh from the oven generously slathered with Irish butter and fruit jam.  There are certain foods that, for me, are never good enough; those foods that incite a deep-rooted nostalgia. For these foods, nothing less than perfect will… 

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Filed Under: AHC Original Recipes, Baking, Bread, Breakfast, Snack, Uncategorized Tagged With: Bread, easy, epicurious, fast, Holiday, Irish, snack, St Patrick's Day, St Patty's Day

Cranberry Orange Pear Pie

January 23, 2016 by Lindsey 7 Comments

Cranberry Orange Pear Pie

This Cranberry Orange Pear Pie has a sweet brown sugar pear filling and is studded with tart cranberries! With fresh orange juice, zest and Grand Marnier, the flavors are absolute heaven! Professional Kitchen Rule #34: No Emotions Allowed There is a firm check-your-emotions-at-the-door policy. But if that fails… Don’t cry into the chili lobster appetizer;… 

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Filed Under: AHC Original Recipes, Baking, Desserts, Fruit, Pie Tagged With: Christmas, cranberry, dessert, easy, easy desserts, epicurious, Fall, grand marnier, Holiday, orange, pastry, pie, pie crust, Piecrust, Thanksgiving, Winter

Apple Butterscotch Pie

January 10, 2016 by Lindsey 15 Comments

Apple Butterscotch Pie

This Apple Butterscotch Pie is absolute heaven! Lightly spiced apples baked inside a flakey all-butter pie crust with a homemade brown sugar butterscotch sauce!  I hope that eating more pie was your New Year’s Resolution, because I just got a little crazy with the pie baking! I waited a full 10 days before posting sweets, which… 

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Filed Under: AHC Original Recipes, Baking, Desserts, Pie, Sauce Tagged With: all butter pie crust, brown sugar, butterscotch, caramel, Christmas, dessert, easy desserts, epicurious, Fall, Holiday, pastry, pie, pie crust

12 Days of Christmas Cookies 2015

December 21, 2015 by Lindsey 5 Comments

12 Days of Christmas Cookies 2015

“We did it!!!” [I hope you hear that in the voice of Elle Woods from Legally Blonde…No? Am I alone here?] We finally made it through 12 days of the second annual 12 Days of Christmas Cookies! You will never know what it took to actually pull this off. 11 cookies in 3 days. 3… 

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Filed Under: Baking, Bars, Cookies, Desserts Tagged With: 12 Days of Christmas Cookies, Christmas, Christmas Cookies, cookies, dessert, easy, Holiday

Chewy Ginger Bars

December 20, 2015 by Lindsey 7 Comments

Chewy Ginger Bars

12 Days of Christmas Cookies These Chewy Ginger Bars have a gingerbread base with a sweet candied ginger crumble topping!! There is candied ginger folded into the base for a perfect burst of ginger! These bars are absolute heaven! A ginger lover’s paradise! Chewy, soft, and sweet with the perfect bite from the ginger! I… 

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Pickled Cherries

This recipe for Mile High Apple Pie is easy and insanely delicious! And the crust...flakey, sugary, buttery goodness!

Mile High Apple Pie

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This Cherry Burrata Millet Grain Bowl has nutty millet, grilled red onions, charred shallots, spicy corn, grilled chicken, fresh cherries, creamy Burrata and a bright cherry vinaigrette! It’s the summer bowl to eat on repeat.

Cherry Burrata Millet Grain Bowl

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These Cherry Preserves are quick and easy! Stock up on Summer’s bounty and enjoy all year! I spread mine on black pepper honey ricotta toast for an easy snack or breakfast.

Cherry Preserves Ricotta Toast

Pickled Cherries

There is nothing better than taking all of Summer’s bounty and throwing it into an easy, no-oven salad! This Stonefruit Caprese Panzanella Salad is at once familiar and comforting with a hint of the unexpected!

Stone Fruit Caprese Panzanella Salad

In these TWO video tutorials for how to make salted caramel sauce you will learn the dry caramel method and the wet caramel method! They both have same perfect result, so you can choose your favorite!

Salted Caramel Sauce: Two Methods {VIDEOS}

This Cherry Burrata Millet Grain Bowl has nutty millet, grilled red onions, charred shallots, spicy corn, grilled chicken, fresh cherries, creamy Burrata and a bright cherry vinaigrette! It’s the summer bowl to eat on repeat.

Cherry Burrata Millet Grain Bowl

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These Cherry Preserves are quick and easy! Stock up on Summer’s bounty and enjoy all year! I spread mine on black pepper honey ricotta toast for an easy snack or breakfast.
There is nothing better than taking all of Summer’s bounty and throwing it into an easy, no-oven salad! This Stonefruit Caprese Panzanella Salad is at once familiar and comforting with a hint of the unexpected!
In these TWO video tutorials for how to make salted caramel sauce you will learn the dry caramel method and the wet caramel method! They both have same perfect result, so you can choose your favorite!
This Cherry Burrata Millet Grain Bowl has nutty millet, grilled red onions, charred shallots, spicy corn, grilled chicken, fresh cherries, creamy Burrata and a bright cherry vinaigrette! It’s the summer bowl to eat on repeat.
This Bourbon Cherry Caramel Ice Cream is a smooth, rich caramel ice cream with a homemade cherry jam swirl and Bourbon soaked cherries!
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