Exotic Tonka Beans warm up this crispy macaron which is filled with a creamy but tart Italian Passion Fruit Buttercream.

This recipe is so simple that you could even whip them up for those last minute hostess gifts during the holidays or for an extra little something sweet to have around the house. Be forewarned, you cannot stop at just one!

Slightly spicy bittersweet chocolate and chili flourless cake is cooled down with a salted caramel gelato!

Macarons are the new cupcake, you cannot go wrong with a French macaron during the holiday season. We made an eggnog inspired macaron filled with rum buttercream, a pistachio macaron filled with yellow chartreuse buttercream and a chocolate macaron filled with ancho chili bittersweet chocolate ganache.

While we were in Palm Springs, our friend Andy, wanted to make a pineapple upside down cake with a fresh pineapple he had sitting around.   The dilemma was that the pineapple was fresh and not …

Remember when I admitted to eavesdropping on the Mac Attack girls?   Well, this time they invited me to play along in their reindeer games, and I was ecstatic!

Just a bit about the Mac Attack … …

A recipe for an easy flourless chocolate cake which is lightly scented with orange zest and cardamon.

The November 2009 Daring Bakers Challenge was chosen and hosted by Lisa Michele of Parsley, Sage, Desserts and Line Drives. She chose the Italian Pastry, Cannolo (Cannoli is plural), using the cookbooks Lidia’s Italian-American Kitchen by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and The Sopranos Family Cookbook by Allen Rucker; recipes by Michelle Scicolone, as ingredient/direction guides. She added her own modifications/changes, so the recipe is not 100% verbatim from either book.