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Lemon Bar Macarons

It’s lemon season here in Arizona and my ginormous lemon tree is busting with lemons. It’s one of my favorite times of year as I not only cook with lemons, but bake all sorts of lemon desserts. I married both of my two favorite desserts; the macaron and a lemon bar. These might be my…

Lemon Chiffon Pie

I love this time of year when my lemon tree is just bursting with fresh lemons. I have always loved any kind of lemon dessert. As a kid growing up my Mom would always let us kids choose our kind of birthday cake and I always chose white cake with lemon filling. I still this…

Lemonies

What’s a Lemonie you ask? A Lemonie is wonderful soft and somewhat dense lemon bar; but not in the sense one normally thinks of a lemon bar. Calling them a lemon brownie seems kind of misleading. Well imagine if a lemon bar and a shortbread cookie had a love child. The texture is meltingly yielding…

Key Lime Bundt Cake

I have a friend who admittedly has a key lime tree for the sole purpose that “They fit perfectly inside a Corona bottle” and here in Arizona they produce limes for longer. Ha! That sounds like a good reason albeit, but I can think of many many more, like this cake. If you’re team cake…

Easy Lemon Curd Parfaits

This will make about 4-5 depending on the size of your glass jars or parfait glasses. I used 5 oz. repurposed yogurt jars that I had saved for small desserts. Anyone from my pastry school days will remember me as a bit of a lemon head. I love love love anything lemon. I would always…

Cranberry ~ Orange Cake with White Chocolate Cream Cheese Icing

Cranberry ~ Orange Layer Cake 3 1/3 Cups all purpose flour 2 1/2 tsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp. kosher salt 1 1/2 Cups unsalted butter, room temp 2 Cups sugar zest of one large orange or 2 tangerines 3 large eggs, room temp 1 Cup milk, room temp 1 Cup sour cream, room temp 1…