Velvety pumpkin butter with pumpkin pie spices is baked between layers of oats and flour and topped with toasty pecans in this quick and simple bar dessert recipe. After much hemming and hawing, I finally made pumpkin butter. I'm not sure what I was expecting to find at the … [Read more...] about Spiced Pumpkin Butter Bars with Pecans
Bars
Lemon-Kissed Strawberry Cheesecake Bars
Lemon kisses the crust, but leaves this bar-style cheesecake rich and creamy, then appears again in a sweet sauce that covers the strawberries on this springtime dessert. My grandma would have us over for Sunday dinners often. When my family up and moved away from the city, … [Read more...] about Lemon-Kissed Strawberry Cheesecake Bars
Cherry Almond Crumb Bars and New Horizons
Yesterday I was making blueberry crumb bars for Babble when I decided I needed use up some of the produce in the fridge. We were headed up to the Boundary Waters, and I had, well, a lot of produce that wasn’t scheduled to be packed in the cooler and carted up there with us. As … [Read more...] about Cherry Almond Crumb Bars and New Horizons
Ganache-Topped Mint Brownies with the Kids
I enjoy cooking with my kids. I believe that teaching them how to cook and bake and feed themselves is an important part of the child rearing process. So, I set out to do that this week. First, we made brownies, but not just any brownies. We made brownies with a mint … [Read more...] about Ganache-Topped Mint Brownies with the Kids
