Dessert

Sweet Potato Pone (Baked Sweet Potato Custard)

Tea Cakes (American Style)

DIY Pumpkin Spice – What is Pumpkin Spice?

Chewy Ginger Spice Cookies – Holiday Baking

Peach Galette with Puff Pastry – How to Make a Galette

Baklava Pockets – What is Baklava

Beignets (New Orleans Style French Doughnuts)

Erdbeerkuchen (German Strawberry Cake)

Mama’s Cinnamon Rolls

German Plum Cake (Pflaumenkuchen)

Eton Mess with Fresh Cherries

Creamy Rice Pudding

Künefe (a sweet cheesy pastry)

Fresh Fig Tart Recipe

Baklava: How to Make it at Home (Simple and Delicious)

How to Make Georgia Peach Cobbler

Streuselkuchen German Crumb Cake

Donauwelle: A Traditional German Sheet Cake with Fresh Cherries, German Buttercream & a Chocolate Topping

Apfelstrudel (Apple Strudel)

Pavlova with Fresh Cherries

Baked Alaska (Elegant Ice Cream Cake w/ Meringue)

Berliners (German Yeast Doughnuts w/ Oma’s Marmalade)

Quarkspitzen (German Doughnut Holes)

Cocoa Coffee Brownies “Caffeinated Brownies”

Strawberry Sorbet (Made from Scratch)

Dolangel (Flakey Pastry with Pistachios & Cream)

Peynirli Künefe

DIY Brown Sugar

Hello, I'm Erica! I am a professionally trained cook, on-air host, and recipe writer with over 20 years of experience working in the food industry. I started cooking at the age of 5 and I specialize in Southern, German, Turkish and Middle Eastern cooking. I work full time as a Recipe Developer for a well known culinary media company and I started this food blog to as a place to further develop my skills and teach others. I attended culinary school in Gaziantep, Turkey and studied German cooking first hand in Germany. Read More…

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