Right after the 4th, both Dustin and I got sick. I told him the benefit of him having to take a sick day is getting to eat freshly baked treats, straight out of the oven. I didn't want to do too much baking since I didn't feel stellar either, plus I couldn't make desserts for other people since I still might be contagious. The absolute last...

We got so busy posting other recipes that we haven't yet shared what we did with the leftover pie scraps from the 4th. When I made the lattice top peach pie, I had quite a bit of extra dough with which I thought I would make this super easy dessert. I stored them in the fridge shaped exactly as they were, then I baked them up with a generous...

We've been on dessert overload lately, but when I saw a recipe for sangria cobbler I was dying to make it. The 4th of July dessert were already planned, so I made these into individual desserts baked in ramekins for just the two of us and froze the rest of them. Whenever I eat cobbler at places, I'm usually disappointed since they rarely are...

The last frozen treat served at our July 4th celebration was the raspberry Pinot Noir sorbet. I wanted something fruity and fat-free to accompany the vanilla bean and peanut butter fudge ice creams. I honestly don't remember what wine we bought to make this, so I can't tell you that. I'm annoyed at myself for throwing the bottle away so...

I didn't specifically make this for the party, but we had leftovers, and it was just so delicious that we wanted to share. Amazingly enough, it actually isn't made with any heavy cream. I found the base of this recipe online and figured it would be a good time to use up some cans of sweetened condensed and evaporated milk sitting in the pantry....

In addition to the cherry bars, I also baked up a lattice-top peach pie using a filling from Chukar Cherries that I spruced up with some fresh fruit and spices (however the crust was completely homemade). With both the pie and the cherry bars, I wanted a basic, but still delicious, vanilla ice cream that our guests could scoop on top. The best...

I really wanted to make cherry amaretto hand pies similar to these for July 4th, but that just wasn't happening given the sheer number of people that needed to be baked for. Instead, I swapped the hand pies out for bars, adapting the recipe from Smitten Kitchen. I was sold after reading brown butter, but I knew I had to incorporate amaretto into...

I had a mini freak out on July 3rd that we wouldn't have enough desserts for the party (or at least enough options), and I also realized I didn't have anything with chocolate in it. So the day before the big event I whipped up a batch of chocolate chip cookies to add to the menu. They ended up being the most complemented dessert of the night and...

One of my favorite things about hanging out at the mall and shopping with friends in middle and high school was that we'd share a slice of cookie cake from The Great American Cookie Company— more bang for your buck, which you could save for the clothing stores, rather than buying the Double Doozies. However, if nobody was willing to share, then...

I just realized that in a way this dessert is very similar to the banana cream pie that I made for the first episode of True Blood this season (these pies were consumed during the second episode). Chocolate and bananas are the star of the show in both desserts. But in a way, these desserts also feel very different. The banana cream pie had a...