Recipes
Halloween is finally here! And, for the first time in a while, I REALLY got into the Halloween spirit. My job organizes a Halloween bake-off every year. For the first time, I decided to enter. I’m usually not the creative/artsy type when it comes to sweets, but I decided to challenge myself. Pictured below is
With Halloween just a few days away, I have been looking for fun treats to make. I had been looking for candy eyeballs to use as a garnish for a dessert that I had in mind, but I couldn’t find any that looked promising. A few online searches brought me to some jello shots decorated
Skip to Recipe I have had heard from many friends and acquaintances about the magic that is Ethiopian food. It has always been on my list of cuisines to try, but it actually had never really happened yet. When I got my Instant Pot about 2 years ago, one of the first things that I
Skip to Recipe When I learned how to make dulce de leche in my Instant Pot, the floodgates were wide open for a time. Any time that I caught a sale on condensed milk, some of it wound up becoming dulce de leche. This, of course, meant that I needed to find a use for
Skip to Recipe I think that ice cream cake might be one of my favorite kinds of cake EVER. In fact, a Carvel ice cream cake remains the ONLY store bought cake that is acceptable for my birthday. For a long time, trying to recreate the magic of my favorite ice cream cake was on
Skip to Recipe Every now and then, an Instant Pot owner gets asked, “Why convert a tried and true oven/stovetop recipe to the IP?” Sometimes, the answer is to save time. Other times, the answer is to wash fewer dishes. And, a lot of times, the answer is something a little unexpected: “Because I can.”
Skip to Recipe I know that I am usually done with the mango recipe posts by now, but these mango creme brulee donuts just couldn’t wait until next year! Mango-filled donuts had been on my list of things to try during Mango Madness since last year. I simply ran out of time (and mangoes) when
It’s hard to believe that it’s already been 5 years since I started Mango Madness. Mango Madness 2018 was actually going to be my last year of doing this, because I was legitimately running out of ideas. Yet. the mangoes flowed so heavily this year that I got all sorts of inspired! Seriously, I got
Skip to Recipe I’ve been experimenting with recipes for mango pastry cream for a while. My previous go-to recipe was good, but it really didn’t have a whole lot of mango flavor. I’m pretty happy with the results of this current iteration of mango pastry cream. My friends and family must agree, because I got
Skip to Recipe Thai iced tea is basically dessert in a glass, and is great for soothing the burn from that hot and spicy Thai food that you might be enjoying. Here in South Florida, practically any Asian restaurant serves Thai iced tea nowadays. There are just so many of them that serve more than