Swiss meringue buttercream is a silky icing that uses egg whites, sugar and butter. It's not too sweet, and perfect for piping and frosting cakes and cupcakes. Here, you'll learn how to make this silky frosting, heating egg whites and sugar in a double boiler, then adding butter to the meringue. ...
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15 Stunning Summer Desserts for a Crowd
Favorite party cake recipes, refreshing icebox desserts and delicious flavors of ice cream. Make one of these beautiful summer treats for your next showstopper dessert. Find the perfect ending to a meal with these fun dessert recipes. These insanely easy summer desserts for a crowd range from ...
The Ultimate Brownie Recipe
The best brownies are made with double the chocolate and have a classic crinkle top. Rich, fudgy, and chewy brownie perfection. Easy for kids to make! This is a great one-bowl brownie recipe that will help minimize the mess while cooking with kids. It is fun to bake these brownies ...
Pecan Streusel Apple Pie with Perfect Pie Crust
Pecan Streusel Apple Pie makes a classic even better. With nuts and spices layered in between sliced apples, it's a fall dessert that will make everyone happy as, pie! Pecan streusel apple pie takes a classic fall dessert to the next level. I nestled nuts, spices and apples into my perfect pie crust ...
Easy Peach Tarts
Easy Peach Tarts with fresh fruit, creamy topping and flakey crust are what this time of year is all about. These little bites are perfect for a party or playful dessert. • • • I have always loved peach season! Mom would buy them by the bushel and spread them out on towels in a spare room. That ...
Grilled Pineapple with Praline Caramel
Perfect for entertaining, Grilled Pineapple with Praline Caramel is a cinch to make, and even easier to devour. Heat up the grill for dessert! • • • Did someone say grilled pineapple? If they did, if you even whisper it, I'll come running! There's something about pineapple, heated, with a little ...
Tart Cherry Lime Granita
Tart Cherry Lime Granita is an easy summer frozen dessert for beautiful hot days. It makes your taste buds happy and your mouth pucker. • • • It's the middle of summer and it's hotter than ever! Take a break, cool down, and enjoy one of my favorite frozen granita recipes. And if you're looking for ...
Mini Ice Cream Pops
Mini ice cream pops are as easy as can be. If you can scoop ice cream, you can make these treats. Add sprinkles and you have a playful summer dessert for a crowd. • • • Ice cream pops that I don't have to put in a special mold? I'm in! These little bites are also totally customizable. Use ...
The Ultimate Cookie Stuffed Brownies a.k.a Slutty Brownies
The ultimate Cookie Stuffed Brownies bring all of my favorite things together in one gloriously delicious cookie bar. Check out all three versions, Oreo, Nutter Butter and mint Milano! • • • What do you get when you combine chocolate chip cookies, Oreos, and brownies all layered in one pan? Cookie ...
Coconut Key Lime Bars • A Classic With A Twist
• • If you love a tangy and sweet lime dessert, topped with fluffy whipped cream, with a toasted coconut crust, have I got the dessert for you! This post may include affiliate links. For more information please see my disclosure agreement. If you have an affinity for Key Lime Pie, you know what ...
Holiday Peppermint Brownies • Tara Teaspoon
Fudgy Holiday Peppermint Brownies get festive with a sweet, pink fluffy frosting top and crushed candy canes. • • • Peppermint brownies are one of those treats I wish were acceptable to eat all year round. They seem to only come out at Christmas, and rightly so, since peppermints and candy canes ...
15 Spooky Sweets Your Kids Can Make
15 Spooky Sweets your kids can make with you this Halloween It's Halloween season! That means holiday season has officially begun. That means family, friends and lots of treats! I can't decide which of those I love most so I like to combine family time with treat making. To save you some time recipe ...
Make A Fresh Melon Cake With Watermelon, Honeydew or Cantaloupe
Make a fresh fruit cake with watermelon, honeydew or cantaloupe that knocks the socks off anything you've ever seen. Chic, tasty and easy, these melon cake variations will get you eating fruit all summer. Scroll down to see my Today Show segment on Watermelon Hacks for more summer fun! I wanted to ...
One Pan Sugar Cookie Bars | Tara Teaspoon
One pan sugar cookie bars are a game-changer! Leave the rolling pin and cookie cutters in the drawer and turn your dough into this bar-cookie dream. • • • The draw of a soft, frosted sugar cookie is strong. But the thought of rolling out dough, cutting it, gathering the scraps and doing it ...
Perfect Pears Fat Free Dessert
Perfect pears fat free dessert is a glorious ending to a healthy meal. Sweet, caramely and creamy, it is satisfying and guilt-free! I always need something sweet after dinner. And when I'm on a healthy kick, that usually means something less-than-satisfying. However, I've found a guilt-free, fat ...
Chocolate Snowman Cookies
The cutest little chocolate snowman cookies you've ever seen. And delicious too! If you are attending a cookie swap this year, and want to win, these snowman cookies are the ones to take. Wait, what was that? Cookie swaps aren't competitions? News to me! Totally kidding. I love cookie swaps for ...
Pear Almond Frangipane Crostata
Pear Almond Frangipane Crostata is the perfect combination of sweet almond filling and juicy pears. Nestled into a simple pastry crust, it's easier to make than a pie! A crostata is the same thing as a galette. Rustic-style, open-faced pies. Basically crostatas and galettes are the jeans of the ...
Black Bottom Chocolate Cream Pie
Chocolate and Vanilla Cream Pie is the best of both worlds. No need to battle it out, this black bottom cream pie is for the entire crowd. It's pie season! It's really always pie season in my book. And that usually brings out all the pie opinions from Thanksgiving to spring and into summer. This ...
Eerie Eyeball Cupcakes
Eyeball cupcakes check out everyone that walks by your Halloween treat table. Grab one before they LOOK away! Mini cupcakes make the perfect canvas for creepy, delicious Halloween eyes. I love having a big platter of these lookers on my treat table! A few simple candies and frosting is all ...
Whoopie Pies for Halloween
Whoopie Pies for Halloween are the most delicious chocolate cake cookies with silky, buttery filling, decorated with holiday sprinkles. I love cake. Cake and meringue buttercream. My reason for making whoopie pies is that I can then hold that piece of delicious cake right in my hand! No fork needed. ...