Growing up a special treat that Mama would make with my sister and me was her recipe for Chocolate Marble Squares. Being older, my sister was able to use the mixer to cream together the butter and sugar and then later, Mama would add in the eggs one at a time.

by · Welcome to Alfajor Cupcakes part deux. A few weeks ago I made Chocolate Alfajor Cupcakes with chocolate cream cheese frosting swirled with dulce de leche. They were, to put it lightly...to die for. So, just to make sure I'm covering all bases, I baked some white chocolate ones.

This is the moistest, softest, juiciest cake I've ever made. I literally heard the cake squish when I sliced it from the pineapple juice glaze that soaks into every crevice. It's a fast, easy, one-bowl, no mixer, from-scratch recipe that's as easy as using a boxed mix which I see often with poke cakes.

I'm really enjoying making ice cream at home. So much so, that I've gone a bit crazy and my freezer is stocked! I'm prepared for warm weather, whenever it wants to get to Nashville and stay for a while. But I would eat ice cream in a snowstorm, especially if it's Toasted Coconut Ice Cream.

This easy Caramel Apple Cream Cheese Spread is the perfect sweet touch to a tailgating menu or any gathering of friends. A good friend of mine recently told me all about this super easy Caramel Apple Cream Cheese Spread. She said she served it at a tailgating event and watched it be devoured right before her eyes.

Growing up, I was always a little disappointed about having a summer birthday. It seemed like the kids who had birthdays during the rest of the year got lots of extra attention at school, and I thought I was missing out. Of course, now that I'm older, I can see all kinds of benefits to having a summer birthday.

50g butter, melted, then cooled, plus extra for the tin 6 large eggs 175g golden caster sugar, plus 3 tbsp extra for dusting 120g self-raising flour 1 tsp vanilla extract 420g can peaches in syrup, drained (reserve the syrup), and roughly chopped 75g raspberry coulis (we used ready-made from Waitrose) 150g pack raspberries 200ml double cream Want to see what this recipe costs at different supermarkets?

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In 1895, Franklin Baker, a Philadelphia flour miller, received a cargo of coconuts from Cuba in payment for a consignment of flour. When he was unable to sell them, he set up a factory for shredding and drying the coconut meat. Soon, coconut desserts were all the rage.