Come Party With Me: All Hallow’s Eve - Dessert

So you've just decided to host a Halloween party and you've got no time to plan. No matter. On Saturday afternoon, before you put on your costume, you can throw together some festive yet uncomplicated snacks and make these cupcakes. Shhh, don't tell anyone: the recipe uses a boxed yellow cake mix, meaning these mini cakes will be ready to bake in minutes. The addition of pumpkin pie spice and canned pumpkin puree, in combination with the smooth cream cheese frosting, will fool your guests in

Maple Pecan Ice Cream

I served a sweet potato pecan pie to finish off my Thanksgiving dinner this year. The fact that the pie was already composed of two already great pies was not enough and I tried to make dessert even better by topping it off with some ice cream. At first I was thinking just some simple vanilla ice cream would do and then I thought; Why stop there? I could make it a maple ice cream and it would be including some of the flavours from the pie that it would be topping. Thinking of working simil

Candy Corn Dessert

Yum Sugar posted a recipe for a Candy Corn themed martini they call trick-or-tini:Cute name, but I don't drink martini's. But, my sister-in-law makes a great Halloween dessert out of butterscotch pudding, banana cream pudding, and whipped cream:And I think that the shape of the martini glass would be the perfect addition to this dessert.

Caramel Banana Cream Pie

A cream pie is usually a pie with a custard or pudding base that is topped off with a lot of whipped cream. In the case of banana cream pie, the standard recipe has vanilla pudding covering a layer of fresh banana slices - and whipped cream on top, of course. The standard is a classic because it has a good combination of flavors, it’s simple and it’s tasty. It’s also a little bit boring when it comes right down to it. This version of banana cream pie adds in another flavor to give the dessert a

The Beast that is Yeast

Ricki Heller, PhD, RHN About a year ago, I’d been following a healthy whole-foods diet and was feeling pretty pleased with myself. The holidays were upon us and I thought, “What could it hurt to have just one ‘regular’ dessert?” Of course, one led to two, which led to sweets on a daily (sometimes hourly) basis. You know the story about the frog in boiling water? Supposedly, a frog placed in cool water which is then slowly heated to boiling can’t detect the subtle changes and will, eventuall

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