How Sweet It Is

Mother Lovett was famous for her coconut cream pie. I was famous for eating it.
Since I have barely mastered her pie crust recipe, I have yet to make a coconut cream pie.
In that case, I made the next best thing – coconut cream cupcakes!

I love coconut. I will happily eat it in anything.

My husband on the [...]

 
A few weeks ago I stumbled upon a tastebud-tantilizing dessert – the ice cream crepe. I fill it with vanilla ice cream and topped it with pureed fresh strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries.
Then I proceeded to make 14 of them and polish them off by the end of the weekend.
 

 
Can you blame me?
 
So I didn’t stuff [...]

 
If you have never had chocolate chewies from Whole Foods, you are totally missing out.
These are one of the most amazing cookies I have ever tasted- incredibly chocolately, chewy, a bit crunchy, and just all around fantastic.
I have wanted to make them at home for months now, but for fear of devouring each and every [...]

 
(Remember a few weeks ago when my brother wrote a guest post? Well, someone was feeling left out. Please take a moment to read a bit about my stuffed-turkey loving husband. He took his own pictures, going great lengths to take them in natural light. He didn’t want to feel my wrath.)
 
 
Once my awesome brother-in-law Will [...]

Oh, gosh. This is truly one of the best dips I have ever tasted. And honestly, it is delicious without the bacon.
But I have this teeny tiny problem of having to add bacon to each and every dish on the planet.  Do they have bacon rehab? Or bacon-aholics anonymous? Not that my bacon love is anonymous.
 
I [...]