Beef Stew with Noodles

This Beef Stew with Noodles is an easy meal to put together and is just right when you need a warm comforting dinner. 

You can serve this the day you make it, or make it a day in advance, without the noodles, and serve it the next day. 

Sourdough Corn Dogs

These sourdough corn dogs are a tasty way to use some of your sourdough discard to make everyone's favorite summer snack. 

These sourdough corn dogs are perfect for serving as a quick lunch or dinner. You can also make them as an appetizer for a game day party. Set them out on a platter with some mustard and ketchup and watch them disappear. 

Coconut Shortbread Cookies

These coconut shortbread cookies are made with a combination of coconut flour and either wheat flour or gluten free flour along with butter and sugar. 

These are my first attempt at working with coconut flour as a substitute for "regular" flour. I dipped them in chocolate and added sprinkles to celebrate the summer season. 

Canadian Butter Tarts

These Canadian butter tarts are an iconic mini dessert made with a pastry shell and filled with a sweet caramel-ish filling that is semi-soft and full of buttery flavor. 

These tarts are similar to pecan tassies, which are an old fashioned American dessert often served during the holidays. The difference is, that in the case of the Canadian butter tarts, the filling is often left plain, or with very little add-ins. 

Fresh Rhubarb Upside-down Baby Cakes

This is a lovely little butter cake with a topping of fresh rhubarb and pecan caramel laced with a bit of bourbon. 

The cake itself is amazing. I can think of so many things I would like to try out with this batter. Add the rhubarb, bourbon, and pecan mixture and these cakes are over the top amazing. 

Sweetened Condensed Milk Cookies

These sweetened condensed milk cookies are soft and slightly chewy and have a sweet vanilla flavor. 

These condensed milk cookies are like a cross between a snickerdoodle and a sugar cookie with a flavor similar to tres leches cake or no churn vanilla ice cream. 

Pineapple Nidos

These are pineapple filled nidos (nests). They're made with a Mexican pan dulce dough, a yeasted dough that you can also use to make conchas, (shells), and other Mexican pan dulce, and then fill with a sweet pineapple filling.  

For the dough, you can use a pan dulce dough, such as the one I used for funfetti conchas. It's very much like brioche or challah, super rich and yet very light. There is also a wonderful recipe in the book, The Mexican Bakery by Alex Peña. You can use it to make any form of bizcocho, which is a descentant of French brioche.