We love chocolate, we love fruit and we love an easy dessert! Melted chocolate makes any fruit into dessert, and it’s literally the simplest thing you can prepare for a Friday night treat. Pour a bag of chocolate chips into a quart-size freezer Ziploc bag and seal. Place that bag into a small aluminum pan…
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Basics: One Bowl No Mixer Cupcakes
There is one basic every family needs. Why cupcakes? Because cupcakes are always a last minute thing. Need to send something to school party? Forgot someone’s birthday is coming up? Kids bored on Sunday? Cupcakes always come to the rescue. When we decided we needed a cupcake recipe for BCP I didn’t have to go…
The 9×13 Life: Outrageous Lotus Blondies
These are perhaps my favorite bar ever. And they couldn’t be easier to make. As long as you have a jar of Lotus Biscoff spread around, you’re good to go. When I looked at the list of our “Top 20” recipes of the past year (you can view the list here), I thought it…
This White Chocolate Molten Cake May Be Better Than the Original
Oh, yum! There are few things that beat the classic chocolate molten cake dessert. This might be one of them. You can easily double (or triple or quadruple) this white chocolate molten cake recipe to serve a bigger crowd. It’s quick to prepare, so I often just escape to the kitchen to throw the ingredients…
It’s Hot, Cold, Creamy, and Crispy: Waffles with White Chocolate Mousse
This perfect dairy waffles dessert is also easy to prepare! That’s because we’re beginning with Yitzy’s Pancake Batter. I don’t like fussing with desserts, but I still need to prepare them. That’s why I’m always looking for desserts that present well without entailing much work on my end (short of ordering them in). A while…
Babka Doughnuts are the Easiest-to-Prepare and Tastiest Donut Yet
Make these chocolate babka doughnuts today. And pop them in the freezer. You don’t need to see them again until it’s time to fry! Ok, I know what you are thinking. Every year food writers try to come up with a crazier doughnut than the year before. That’s not what I tried to do this…
Hot Pears and Crumbs is the Perfect Dessert (and You Can Make It in Your Crock-Pot!)
These pears are the perfect dessert to end your meal. Especially if that meal is in a chilly sukkah. It cooks in your Crock-Pot so it’s hot and ready when you’re ready to serve it! Dessert in the sukkah at night needs to be a cozy affair, agree? And what can be more cozy, fall-ish and…
Crumbs, Cream & Coulis: This is Our Favorite Dessert of the Season.
Did you ever think a dessert this gorgeous and fresh-tasting could be made entirely ahead? I called Renee Muller and told her I had an idea for a dessert based on a dish I saw at an event. I needed her help. What kind of fruit coulis would work? What fruit did she think I…
Ripe Fruit in the Produce Drawer? Make This Fruit Crisp
Don’t worry about overbuying fruit in the summer. Too much fruit is always a good thing when you can make fruit crisp. Do you often get to the end of the week and your produce drawer has a variety of fruit that has to get eaten before it dies? Or do you like to shop…
Another 5 Things That Renee (Tries to) Always Have In Her Freezer
These freezer staples are always handy, and are there ready and waiting to save the day! One of the very first posts I wrote here on Between Carpools was about the five items I always have in my freezer. It’s 3 years later and those items are still my go-to freezer staples. Since it’s still…
