Month: August 2020

Salted Double Dark Chocolate Cookies

Salted Double Dark Chocolate Cookies

These salted double dark chocolate cookies are for the insane chocolate lover. It’s loaded with big, dark chocolate chips, semi-sweet chips and cocoa powder. The kosher salt on top adds a nice salty flavor among layers of chocolate. Calling all chocolate lovers! My daughter Emma and I are HUGE chocolate […]

Easy Breezy Hawaiian Smootini

Easy Breezy Hawaiian Smootini

This Easy Breezy Hawaiian Smootini, part smoothie and part martini, will whisk you away to the islands and put you in that “hang loose” mood. Summertime and fruity drinks just go together, like peas and carrots, or whatever Forrest Gump used to say. Our kids love smoothies for breakfast, especially […]

Churro Apple Tartlet

Easy Churro Apple Tartlets

These Easy Churro Apple Tartlets are a ridiculously delicious! Filled with caramelized apples, placed in a mini-churro bowl. Add your favorite caramel, chocolate, or Nutella sauce and drizzle over the top. Feeling it? Add some vanilla ice cream too! A few weeks ago, our pool club organized The Burgundian: Coffee […]

Rustic Peach Galette

Rustic Peach Galette

A unique presentation of flaky, buttery crust, filled with fresh, juicy and delicious peaches. Hints of orange, vanilla and cinnamon round out this perfect Rustic Peach Galette. Peach pie is one of my favorite pies! For the past 15 years, every summer down at the Cape, I stop at Marion’s […]

Vodka Sunrise

Vodka Sunrise

Summer refreshment! This Vodka Sunrise is simple and delicious! Just add vodka, orange juice, a splash of grenadine and enjoy the sunrise! Since my younger brother was one year old, my family and I have been coming down to Ocean City, New Jersey. I won’t tell you how many years […]

Strawberry Shortcake Cake

Strawberry Shortcake Cake

Stunning, fresh and beautiful! This Strawberry Shortcake Cake is loaded with fresh strawberries and whipped cream cheese frosting. It’s the perfect cake for any summer gathering. You know summer is approaching when you see the shelves of the produce section packed with fresh fruit. This is another reason why I […]

Banana Cake Bars

Banana Cake Bars

These banana cake bars are super moist with a sweet banana flavor. The delicious cream cheese frosting on the top adds the perfect finishing touch! My kids are always asking me to buy bananas. They love to eat them as a snack with peanut butter, put them in smoothies, or […]

Cocktail

Electric Shark Cocktail

If it’s shark week or you are just hitting the waves, this Electric Shark Cocktail is a delicious mix of spiced rum, curaçao, pineapple juice and ginger beer. It’s FIN-TASTIC! Sometimes late night TV can be inspiring and this was definitely inspired by Josh Gates (a Boston area native) and […]