Holiday Cookies: Best of the Best
12 swoon-worthy cookies curated from my food blogger baking gurus. These stunners will be the crowning glory of any holiday cookie swap, care package, or Christmas cookie plate. You're welcome.
Chocolate Crack Cookies
I call these Chocolate Crack Cookies because they are utterly irresistible to the chocolate addict. Incredibly rich and full of premium dark chocolate, these cookies are like a cookie version of flourless chocolate cake with a delicate surface that breaks into fudgy decadence.
Salted Caramel Sauce
This salted caramel sauce is good on everything! Drizzle it over ice cream, dip apples in it, whip it into a buttercream frosting, or my favorite, just eat it by the spoonful.
Banana Cream Pie with Chocolate Ganache & Salted Caramel Sauce
A pretty Southern belle of a pie with a golden graham cracker crust coated with dark chocolate ganache, sweet bananas, thick vanilla-specked pastry cream, and pillows of soft whipped cream swirled with salted caramel.
Trick or Treat: Homemade Halloween Candy
Homemade Halloween candy with a cookie crunch, chewy caramel layer, and milk chocolate coating. Sound familiar?
Butterscotch and Chocolate Pot de Creme
A phenomenal dessert of Butterscotch Pot de Creme at Town Hall haunts me until I track down the recipe. Classic butterscotch pudding gets a swoon-worthy, decadent, uber-luxe upgrade.
Berries n’ Cream with Meringue and Pistachios
Fresh fruit, whipped cream, who doesn’t love that? Add some crunchy pistachios for a little salty nuttiness, and a surprising crumble of airy meringues, and you’ve got one winning dessert.
Nectarine and Raspberry Crisp
Fruit Crisp: The ideal, no-stress dessert. Instant home-baked goodness that looks like you spent way more time on it than you actually did.
StarChefs.com’s Rising Stars Revue
Preview of StarChef's Rising Stars Gala & Awards Ceremony, and Melissa Chou's summer dessert recipe for Creme Fraiche Panna Cotta with Plum Soup
An African Dinner in Berkeley
A evening far far away...in Berkeley. An exploration of African flavors: Senegalese-style Mafà©, a tomato-based groundnut stew, and Bread Pudding with Malagasy Vanilla Rum Sauce.
