Brown Butter Peach Tart

When your mother gives you fresh peaches you put them to good use and make three different desserts. The first of the three is a brown butter peach tart. It has a sweet sugar crust and filled with fresh peaches and covered in a brown butter filling that bakes down to a fresh summer dessert….

Bittersweet Chocolate and Sea Salt Caramel Tart

Remember: “Desserts is stressed spelled backwards.” After another inscessent week of obligations, I decided,  it was time to make another dessert. Scrolling and flipping through pages of sweet dishes I came across a recipe that started with “bittersweet.” This was it. This described the week. This was the recipe. This dessert has my favorite crust…

Mary Berry’s Bakewell Tart

Sticking with my love of The British Baking Show, here is a tasty tart I made during my week of vacation last week. I used one of my new favorites, Mary Berry’s recipe for a Bakewell Tart. This pastry has a basic vanilla tart crust with a small hit of fruit preserves in the bottom…

Twice as Nice; Double Chocolate Tartlets

A friend of ours invited my boyfriend and I for a dinner at his house. He requested a small dessert. Agreeing to something with chocolate or fruit I dug into my recipes. I came up with a small chocolate tart. The crust was a bitter cocoa based shortbread crust and the filling was a sweet…

Snozzberries?! Who has ever heard of a Snozzberry?

Two things I love is sweets for breakfast and sweets after dinner. So, while shopping, I picked up enough raspberries to make two sweet and savory desserts. The first is a raspberry and white chocolate tart. Combining the tartness from the raspberries and mascarpone the sweetness of the white chocolate and crust it creates a…

The Perfect Lemon Tart

My grandmother introduced me to lemon meringue pie when I was a young boy. I remember sitting in a little café, “Knights” restaurant, and each of us taking a big piece from the display spinner. I remember the smell of the smoky old air and leather booths. I used my fork to flick off the…