dessert Recipes

Classic chocolate French macarons are paired with a dreamy marshmallow filling. Each macaron is smeared in a mexican hot chocolate glaze for mega flavor!

Chocolate French Macarons with Marshmallow Filling


These chocolate French macarons are crispy, chewy and perfectly chocolate-y — this is the best recipe for chocolate macarons! The filling is one of my favorite marshmallow fillings with an added (and optional) slightly spicy chocolate glaze for Mexican hot chocolate vibes (or leave it plain). Lots of technique tips for easily making these in your home kitchen! When I…

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A bunch of big cookies overlapping on a white surface.

Mega Vanilla Small Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies


Mega Vanilla Small Batch Chocolate Chip Cookie — scream it from the rooftops because you’re about to fall in love with this cookie. This beauty has it all: I don’t know what more we could possible want in a chocolate chip cookie. In The Cookie Book, I devoted an entire chapter to chocolate chip cookies (crispy, chewy, brown butter, etc…

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Toasted Oat Chocolate Chip Cookies


I hope you’re ready for a new cookie because I’m so excited to share this Toasted Oat Chocolate Chip Cookie with you! This is part of Better Baking Academy, a year-long educational baking series by Bob’s Red Mill + Bake From Scratch magazine (two of my favorite companies!). This month is aptly themed: The Power of Flour in Chocolate Chip Cookies!…

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Chocolate Dipped Oatmeal Ice Cream Sandwich | Recipe via DisplacedHousewife Rebecca Firth

Chocolate-Dipped Oatmeal Cookie Ice Cream Sammies


Behold, the homemade version of an It’s It: Chocolate-Dipped Oatmeal Cookie Ice Cream Sammies. Have you had one? Do you love them? They are one of my most favorite ice cream treats from my childhood. About a year ago I posted this recipe to my Instagram but never to my blog. I know. The shame. You’ve missed out on an…

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Salted Honey Pear Crostata | recipe via DisplacedHousewife Rebecca Firth

Salted Honey Pear Crostata


This Salted Honey Pear Crostata has ALL THE GOOD THINGS! The pears in this crostata are perfectly sweet and retain their structure (ie don’t get mushy) but are still tender to the fork. They are bathed in the salted honey caramel bringing in bits of caramel, honey and toffee flavors to the mix. This crust is hella flakey, easy to…

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Chocolate Orange Meringues | Recipe via DisplacedHousewife Rebecca Firth

Chocolate Orange Meringue Cookies


Let me reintroduce you to one of the oldest recipes on the blog: these petite Chocolate Orange Meringue Cookies. These are crispy on the exterior and melt-in-your-mouth on the interior with just the perfect amount of chocolate to satisfy any cravings you might be plagued with at the moment. I also love the little hit of citrus you get from…

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Lemon Cake | Recipe via DisplacedHousewife Rebecca Firth

Fresh Lemon Cake


Consider this Fresh Lemon Cake a dazzling celebration of the humble lemon, that most-frequently used citrus that adorns our kitchen counters. I don’t know this for fact but I do on instinct. I put lemon in everything from warm water, to savory dishes that need brightening up to baked goods that need some sunshine. Yes, the humble lemon is a…

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Slices of delicious cake

Top Ten Recipes 2019


Here are the Top Ten Recipes for 2019 and I’m here for each and every one of them!! It’s been a decade…full of so many ups and downs, if I’m being perfectly honest. I’m looking forward to 2020, a whole new decade to futz and infuse with sweetness. I’m considering adding in some savory recipes (mostly because I want to…

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Peppermint Bark Bars | Recipe via DisplacedHousewife Rebecca Firth

Chewy Peppermint Cookie Bars


What are Chewy Peppermint Cookie Bars? I’m so glad you asked… Picture your very favorite chocolate chip cookie dough without chocolate chips or chunks (this is important). Three-fourths of the cookie dough is pressed into an 8X10 baking pan and then covered in chocolate peppermint ganache (yup)and then drizzles of white chocolate ganache. The whole lot gets showered in crushed…

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Dark Chocolate Peppermint Cups | Recipe via DisplacedHousewife Rebecca Firth

Easy Dark Chocolate Peppermint Cups


Look at these Easy Dark Chocolate Peppermint Cups! Yep, just like a peanut butter cup but filled with the most dreamy peppermint cream. Think like an Oreo or, even better, like Trader Joe’s Candy Cane Joe-Joe’s. I have eaten more Candy Cane Joe-Joe’s than I’ll ever admit. Ever. Believe it or not, you can have these Dark Chocolate Peppermint Cups…

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Burnt Sugar Muscovado Truffles | recipe via DisplacedHousewife Rebecca Firth

Burnt Sugar Muscovado Truffles


Burnt Sugar Muscovado Truffles are such the perfect, ultimate sweet treat to my always modest palate. We whip up some burnt sugar which is so easy (1 ingredient) and takes little effort. It’s so easy we’re sipping champagne as we do this, because it’s the holidays and we’re feeling it. As the burnt sugar hardens, we combine the truffle filling…

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Eggnog Cream Pie With Caramel Rum Sauce


Eggnog Cream Pie with Caramel Rum Sauce… Where to begin with this beauty?! So many of my favorite flavors all wrapped into one, delicious dreamy holiday package. This Eggnog Cream Pie with Caramel Rum sauce was created in collaboration with Diamond of California. A big thank you to them + you for supporting the brands I work with! xo

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White Trash S’mores Buns


White Trash S’mores Buns are fluffy sweet yeasted rolls stuffed with marshmallows, chocolate and crushed graham crackers. More S’mores Fun! I love love love the combo of chocolate, graham crackers and marshmallow! If you want more, check out these Chewy S’mores Cookie Bars and my favorite Salted Caramel S’mores Tarts. Enjoy your super fluffy White Trash S’mores Buns!

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Gianduja Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies


Gianduja Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies? I’ll take twenty-five please. I think it’s important that we celebrate all that is good in the world, with chocolate + hazelnut spread being one of life’s finest creations. Behold the Gianduja Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookie. Bask in her glory. Note her splendor. She’s dying to get to you know. Really. Gianduja is just a…

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Salted Caramel S’mores Tart


Sometimes something is just too dang delicious not to share and that’s the case with this spectacle of a dessert, behold the Salted Caramel S’mores Tart. If I had to pick my favorite flavor combination of summer, it would probably (most certainly) be the graham cracker-chocolate-marshmallow holy trinity of flavor combinations that is the s’more. A backyard wonder. A beachcomber’s…

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Chocolate Lemon Tart


Is there any better way to say goodbye to winter and hello to spring than with a Chocolate Lemon Tart? No really, is there? All of my favorite flavors are shoved into one delicious dessert treat that doesn’t just look beautiful, it tastes amazing. Even better, it’s a cinch to throw together. I mean it. This was utterly painless. I…

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Chocolate Hazelnut Brownies with Coffee Ganache


We need chocolate and hazelnuts and coffee in our life. Right now. Full stop. These chocolate hazelnut brownies come together so quick…in a flash. All your wet ingredients mingle together in a make-shift double boiler so that the chocolate and sugars get all melt-y and delicious. A quick whisk of the dry ingredients (and a sift if you’re feeling frisky,…

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