Tasty Recipes for the Home Cook

Pumpkin Queijadas
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Pumpkin Queijadas (Pumpkin Milk Tarts)

If you like Portuguese Queijadas de Leite, you will like these Pumpkin Queijadas. These pumpkin milk tarts are custardy with the flavor of pumpkin, cinnamon, and other warm spices. They are perfect for the fall and winter dessert table. One of the most popular recipes on this blog is Portuguese Queijadas or Queijadas de Leite. Like these pumpkin versions, they are custardy but with a …

Vanilla Bean Butter Cookies
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Vanilla Bean Butter Cookies

Vanilla Bean Butter Cookies are crisp and buttery, with tender crumbs and a melt-in-your-mouth feel. Vanilla bean paste amps up the flavor as well as add dark specks throughout. These cookies are made simply with just a few basic ingredients. Using quality ingredients truly makes them shine. No wonder butter cookies are a classic. The butteriness, the crispy edges, the tender crumb, and a melt-in-your-mouth …

Old-Fashioned Apple Crisp
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Old-Fashioned Apple Crisp

Apple crisp is the ultimate fall dessert. This Old-Fashioned Apple Crisp has sweetened tender apples, the warmth of cinnamon, and the crispiness of buttery crumble. It is sublime served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Apple crisp is one of my family’s favorite desserts. My daughter loves it so much that she sometimes requests it instead of a birthday cake for her birthday. There …

Lemon Delight Mini Cheesecakes
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Lemon Delight Mini Cheesecakes

Lemon Delight Mini Cheesecakes burst with bright lemony flavor and cream cheese goodness in every bite. They are a lemon lover’s dream.

I love mini cheesecakes, and these have multiple layers of yumminess! Every bite provides a mouthful of smooth cream cheese and bursts of bright lemon. Each cheesecake has a layer of vanilla wafer cookie base. This is followed by a layer of cream cheese that is infused with fresh lemon juice and zest. On top of that is an intensely sweet/tangy lemon filling. Finally, a sprinkling of lemon sugar topping adds a perfect finishing touch.

Cranberry Lime Snowball Cookies
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Cranberry Lime Snowball Cookies

Snowball cookies are buttery, melt-in-your-mouth tasty bites. These Cranberry Lime Snowball Cookies have everything you love about the holiday classic but with a sweet, tart, and citrusy flavor profile. One of the best things about December is baking season. These snowball cookies are the latest and greatest baked goods coming out of my kitchen. They are easy and simple to make…and, of course, delicious! Plus, …

Pumpkin Cream Cheese Filled Donuts
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Pumpkin Cream Cheese Filled Donuts

It’s time for fall baking! These Pumpkin and Cream Cheese Filled Donuts are fluffy and tender. They have a delicious coating of pumpkin pie spice sugar. The dough is made with rapid-rise yeast to minimize proof time and then fried to perfection. I love the fluffiness and airiness of yeast donuts! Making your own requires a little bit more effort than buying it from the …