Cooking: Desert Bar Ideas

  • Pretty DIY Cookies Gift Box

    Pretty DIY Cookies Gift Box

    Purim is the holiday that entails giving food baskets or gifts that are food oriented to friends, neighbors teachers and those to whom we want to express appreciation. So, this year my daughter who is the resident baker in our home, did not have time to actually bake, but rather she assembled these gorgeous cookies…

  • Quick Meringue Hearts In A Pinch

    Quick Meringue Hearts In A Pinch

    I’ll make this quick, because after all, who really has time to spend making desserts for a dessert bar, especially when it is last minute? I’ll admit, desserts are my daughter’s thing, and she assembled these adorable hearts for a friend’s engagement party dessert bar. Dessert bars need quite a few items to look great,…

  • A Gorgeous Candy Topped Engagement Cake

    A Gorgeous Candy Topped Engagement Cake

    Want to make a really stunning cake that will surely bring oohs and aahs all around? The candy and cookies topped cake trend is just the thing, especially for folks like me who do not want to spend hours on a cake! And one could surely buy an iced cake, even a high cheese cake…

  • Chocolate Chip Cookies With Sprinkles For Chanukah Or Any Festivity!

    Chocolate Chip Cookies With Sprinkles For Chanukah Or Any Festivity!

    Wishing everyone a lovely light-filled Chanukah on this fourth night of Chanukah. It is pouring cats and dogs here in Northern Israel creating a very dramatic setting for the glowing flames of the holiday. My kids are all snugly tucked in bed with a book so I’m taking a moment to share these fun cookies…

  • Monogram Engagement Cookies With Printable Icing Sheets

    Monogram Engagement Cookies With Printable Icing Sheets

    Baking is now my teenage daughter’s department, and she is doing a great job at it, sometimes too great in fact as I’m trying to avoid sugar. These monogram engagement cookies could be posted as a craft fail, but rather than be that harsh lets just say we (she, rather) learned a big lesson with…

  • No Bake Popsicle Cookies Are Simply Adorable

    With everything looking pinker than pink in blog land this week, I thought I’d contribute with these super simple and beyond adorable no-bake popsicle cookies! And I’ll just add that these are courtesy of my 16 year old daughter who is quite the expert at these kinds of things…….her mother would rather be painting, or…

  • Royal Icing Clown Hat Cookies For Purim

    Royal Icing Clown Hat Cookies For Purim

    Yes it is true dear readers, this year I have had to significantly lower the bar for my traditional Purim extravaganza as there just haven’t been enough hours in the day. And you know what, it really is okay, and our holiday will still be wonderful and festive on account of buying certain things we…

  • Snowglobe Cookies With Royal Icing Make Great Winter Party Favors!

      How about a big round of applause for my 15 year old daughter on her second attempt ever at royal icing, the outcome being these too adorable for words snowglobe snowman cookies! There is just something so wonderfully irresistible about royal icing, though since I’d rather not spend my creative time baking I’m more…

  • DIY: Miniature Candy Apples Are Perfectly Adorable

    DIY: Miniature Candy Apples Are Perfectly Adorable

    I now present you dear readers with just about the simplest and most adorable way to decorate a cake, cupcakes, a dessert plate: mini candy apples made from toffee candies with clove stems! And of course you can use this same idea to make mini candy lemons, oranges and grapes. It is true I am…

  • Cinnamon Roll Cake Pops For The Dessert Bar Are Perfect In A Pinch!

    Okay dear readers, I’m off sugar and flour entirely so I’m trying to post this fantastic idea for making cinnamon roll cake pops that look like lollipops without really looking too closely at the photos, and with the idea that while certainly I’m not encouraging folks to eat un-healthfully, sometimes you’ve just gotta bake that…

  • Sugar Free Biscotti With Dried Fruit And Nuts

    Sugar Free Biscotti With Dried Fruit And Nuts

    I love biscotti, what can I say, but I don’t love the idea of eating a cookie packed with sugar and wheat, even if it is low-fat, as most biscotti are. So, I decided it was time to come up with a sugar free biscotti recipe, even though I’m not exactly an expert baker! Experimenting…