FavoritePinShare Crumbly spiced carrot cake bars with a delicious cheesecake center! They are packed with flavor and sure to be a hit! It is starting to feel like spring around here and we are loving it! It was such a beautiful day today and it got into the 70s. We spent most of our day outside enjoying the nice weather. It is such a relief to start being able to go outside when you have been in hibernation for the winter....

To be 100% honest, I used to loathe cauliflower! I never understood people who said they loved the boring, tasteless veggie, until I had an epiphany! Cauliflower is only tedious if you make it bland. Of course I hated it. My whole life it was served to me boiled to an unexciting mush, plain and smelling like… well, fart! (I could say something a little classier, like “sulfurous”, but I did start this post saying I was going to be honest....

I have a theory that everything tastes better in mini form. Which is why I share so many “mini” versions of things. Though my friends will have you believe that I prefer small food because I have such small hands. “Baby Hands”, they call me. I regularly remind them that it’s not size that matters, it’s what you can do with them!! “I like these mini cheese balls because there’s a higher ratio of coating to cheese than with giant cheese balls....

FavoritePinShare Cheeseburger Sliders are the best thing to happen to rolls since butter! These are fast, easy, and absolutely delicious. Sliders super easy to make and fun to eat! You have to try these other slider favorites, Ham and Cheddar, Pastrami and Italian Meatball Sliders! Homemade Cheeseburger Sliders Sliders are one of the best inventions ever, especially for little hands. My kids love it when I make sliders and cheeseburgers are one of their favorites....

Dips and spreads are the easiest way to feed a crowd at all sorts of gatherings. From guacamole to baba ghanoush, you will find a great variety of dip recipes in our appetizer collection! A delicious party dip for any occasion! It’s that time of the year again! That time when I host friends to eat all sorts of indulgent food and watch the big game. Only I almost never know who’s playing!...

FavoritePinShare I absolutely love cherry pie! It is hands down my favorite pie around the holidays. These cherry pie cookies made with Lucky Leaf pie filling, are a must to bake for the holidays! … or better yet, they are great year round! One of my favorite cookies to bake are thumbprint cookies. Because Lucky Leaf cherry pie filling is so fantastic, I wanted make these cute little thumbprint cookies with my favorite pie filling....

Chicken Kolhapuri Kolhapur, a city from the Southern Maharashtra in India, is well known and famous for a lot of things. While the Mahalakshmi Temple stands on top, the culinary delicacies representing the most flavorful & spiciest foods are equally well-known. The city is also popularly known for the Kusti (wrestling) & handicrafts. Misal Pav, Pandhara Rassa and Tambda Rassa are some of the dishes from this cuisine. Chicken kolhapuri along with Veg Kolhapuri , is mostly seen on the restaurant menus especially in the South Indian and Western Indian states....

FavoritePinShare Creamy alfredo sauce with chicken, pasta, artichokes, and spinach come together in this incredible casserole! This will be one that the entire family is going to love! This time of year is so busy! With the holidays, school activities, and gatherings, it can seem to be overwhelming to say the least. I can never seem to catch a break and trying to balance everything can be difficult. I try so hard to cook some delicious meals during the week for my family....

FavoritePinShare Chile Lime Salmon. This quick and easy 20 minute dinner is super flavorful thanks to a bit of heat from the Chile and a cooling citrus zest from the lime. 20 minutes is all you need to get this sweet and spicy salmon on the table for dinner! The sauce comes together with pantry ingredients, and is brushed onto the salmon, bake for 15 minutes and that’s it! Theres nothing I love more than a quick and easy dinner that my entire family loves!...

To make a homemade khoya or khoa lot of patience and time is needed which I do not have. So I generally prefer to buy from the Indian stores. You can make a simple khoya burfi or make a choco burfi. Sweeteners like raw cane sugar too can be used like I did to make chocolate kaju katli and chocolate sandesh. Since i made the two layer chocolate burfi, i had to use sugar....

Frost generously with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting for a terrific birthday cake or chocolate ganache for a luxurious rich option. For a richer, fudgier chocolate cake, try this Chocolate Fudge Cake. The ultimate glaze to impress, however, is without a doubt Chocolate Mirror Glaze….. This is the Chocolate Cake If you’ve been reading for a while, you know that sometimes I get real stubborn about doing certain things the “right way”....

FavoritePinShare This unforgettable dessert is layered with a shortbread crust, chocolate ganache layer, coconut cream, and topped with whipped cream! Perfect for your next party! This is one of the best desserts that I have ever had. But probably because I am a huge coconut cream pie fan. It is one of my favorite pies and I love the creamy coconut flavor. When I saw this recipe for chocolate coconut cream pie bars I had to make it....

FavoritePinShare Hi everyone! I’m Dorothy at Crazy for Crust, where I bake up tons of crazy desserts and share them, with a slice of my life. I’m so excited to be here for Alyssa today. Alyssa and I met last winter (through blogging, of course) and I’ve been drooling over her recipes since. Any girl who gives chicken a crust and follows it with Carmelitas is my kind of girl. I really am in looooove with crust – on pie, on brownies, in ice cream, you name it....

Baked beans are a breakfast staple in Australia and the UK. Actually, baked beans are a meal staple full stop – breakfast, lunch and dinner! I lived my university days surviving on more baked beans than I care to remember. Open the can, pour onto toast, and microwave. It’s almost like a right of passage being a uni student. Canned baked beans and tuna on rice. Spend as little as possible on food so you have as much as possible for beer....

FavoritePinShare We love all things cinnamon roll at our house! You should also try: Quick 45 minute Cinnamon Rolls, Cinnamon Roll Cupcakes, and Baked Cinnamon Roll Oatmeal! CINNAMON ROLL CAKE This cinnamon roll cake first made its debut on the blog in 2012. One of the first and BEST recipes here on the blog. But the pictures just weren’t doing it any justice. An gooey gooey Cinnabon cinnamon roll turned into a cake!...

Did you have to look twice to make sure they really are bread crusts? Yes, they are! A couple of weeks ago, I shared my savoury solution to getting through a ridiculously large bag of bread crusts that were stockpiled in my freezer – Parmesan and Thyme Bread Crust Treats. Today I’m sharing the sweet version. “They taste like cinnamon doughnuts, only crunchy and a whole lot healthier and faster to make!...

Coconut chutney is beyond easy to make! At home we make it at least 3 to 4 times a week since it is the perfect partner for all Indian dishes. My family loves a change each time, so over the years I have perfectioned making so many variations of coconut chutney which I have shared in this post. With spicy and nutty flavors, these will surely impress your entire family including kids!...

Coconut Milk Pulao I share the traditional Andhra style coconut milk pulao recipe in this post along with instructions to make it in a pot, pressure cooker and instant pot. In South India, locally grown aged regular rice is used to make this dish. However feel free to use any kind of rice that you have. Keeping the rice grains separate, grainy yet fully cooked is very important. So use only aged rice as this kind of rice cooks up perfectly to fluffy grains without turning sticky and mushy....

Grandma Dorothy has made several appearances on my blog. One Christmas, I shared these Candy Cane Snowball Cookies, which are based on her Swedish tea cakes. Before she lost her battle with Parkinson’s disease, my grandma painstakingly recorded her most treasured recipes in a home-printed cookbook she called Lovin’ from the Oven. Included in that cookbook is the base recipe that I used for these orange drop cookies. These melt-in-your-mouth, traditional orange cookies are pillowy soft and float away on your tongue....

The sparkle attracts me. After all, what other time of year could I feasibly don a glittery skirt or a light-up snowman sweater and be right on trend? Then, I flash forward to my feelings every year after my family’s four-day, multi-dinner holiday feast extravaganza. The only sparkle I want is the shiny stripe down the side of my sweatpants. Fortunately for us, with cranberry St. Germain cocktails in hand, we’ll be party pretty no matter what we are wearing!...