"Over-the-top, sticky, gooey goodness - or, as I like to call it, 'love.'" That's how pastry chef Catherine Schimenti describes the thrilling moment she first dipped a warm sticky bun into sweet-salty butterscotch sauce. Schimenti flavors the sauce with a splash of Scotch. "I love adding glamour to old-school desserts," she says.

by Carol Arroyo TheBakingPan Recommends: The BEST instant read thermometer I've used for cooking and baking; the ThermoWorks Splash-Proof Super-Fast Thermapen Thermometer is incredibly fast, accurate, and well worth the investment. I use my Thermapen Thermometer for checking room temperature ingredients, tempering chocolate, baking bread, making pastry creams, sugar syrup, caramel, and candy, cooking meats and fish, and deep frying.

Listen carefully now, because these three words are going to rock your world: Cheesecake. For. Breakfast. Not that I needed another excuse to have it for breakfast... you guys know that it is my favorite dessert ever, like - cheesecake should totally be a food group on its own.

I wonder if other countries get carried away with national flag-themed food the way we do in the U.S. Do a search for "Fourth of July desserts" on Pinterest and you'll get a smorgasbord of inventive red, white and blue creations. I'm gonna take a wild guess and assume we do this better than anyone else.

Blueberry Gooey Butter Cake Here's a delicious and easy summery dessert: Blueberry Gooey Butter Cake We stayed in a lovely beach house on the Massachusetts coast a couple of weeks ago. It's a place we go every summer, and we enjoy it so much. It's something we look forward to all year long.

Here's an easy and delicious recipe for Pear Bread > I traveled earlier this week and stocked up the house with food for my husband and son before I left. When I came home, the three beautiful pears I left for them to snack on sat in the fruit basket ripened beyond the point of wanting to eat them.

Occasionally I admit that I live in a Disney fantasyland where candlesticks come to life and orchestrate the cleaning of my kitchen and Prince Charming actually texts me back. In reality, dishes are piling up in the sink and my phone is all too quiet.

Thank you Whole Foods Market and Driscoll 's Berry for sponsoring this post! A stunning raspberry swirl pavlova with pomegranates will make a stunning dessert centerpiece! #DriscollsBerry The first week of December always gets me excited about the holiday season.

I made this coconut almond cream cake for our recent first wedding anniversary celebration. A dense coconut cake is filled with almond-coconut cream filling and frosted with whipped coconut cream cheese frosting. It's a coconut bonanza and if you are a coconut lover like us, you will love every single bite of this big (and tall) cake that was perfect for our celebration.

Made this recipe for the first time! Wow, excellent! Tried this recipe out with my boyfriend and it was the first time either of us have ever baked! Turned. Out. AMAZING. We also used parchment paper, sprinkled with powdered sugar that was suggested by someone else in the comments :) I am so annoyed with this recipe.