Beneath the Crust

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August 2024

peanut butter pie

Oftentimes you’ll find a peanut butter pie with an Oreo crust…and believe me, you’d be hard pressed to find bigger fans of chocolate and peanut butter…

Aug 5, 2024

July 2024

Brown Sugar Banana Bread

This banana bread is simple, moist, deeply flavored, delicious…and made in one bowl! It’s a recipe I have memorized because we make it once a week. We…

Jul 22, 2024

chockablock cookies

Here’s a cookie chock full of chunky texture. They aren’t much to look at, but yeesh they are addictive. The soft oatmeal cookie base barely holds…

Jul 3, 2024

June 2024

salted caramel tart

An elegant classic, this tart features a buttery shortbread crust and deeply flavorful salted caramel filling. You probably won’t believe me when I say…

Jun 25, 2024

December 2023

speculaas (dutch spice cookies)

These cookies are meant to be pressed into a mold, but I don’t have one. I opt to roll and cut them out like sugar cookies (actually, I always make…

Dec 11, 2023

ricotta cookies

A few years ago, I started baking several different cookies leading up to Christmas, freezing them as I went. The goal was to have a stockpile of…

Dec 7, 2023

Berry Oat Bars. revisited

A while back, I shared a recipe for Raspberry Oat Bars that were quickly becoming a favorite breakfast/snack bar in our home. In fact, they’re made so…

Dec 4, 2023

November 2023

Cauliflower and Almond Cream Soup with Harissa Butter, Almonds and Dill

A creamy lightly-spiced cauliflower soup with robust flavor from toasted almonds, slight heat from harissa-infused browned butter and a bright…

Nov 10, 2023

October 2023

Peanut Butter Cranberry Oat Bars

These easy-to-make bars come together quickly and are a favorite grab n’ go snack around here. There’s something about the simple combination of peanut…

Oct 30, 2023

Chocolate Cherry Almond Biscotti

These chocolate cherry almond biscotti were good enough to pull me out of sluggish apathy this morning and finally revive a blog wallowing in…

Oct 9, 2023

October 2020

Rustic Ricotta Cheesecake

Backstory: In high school, we spent just over a month living in Trastevere for my dad’s work, and there was this bakery where we would get cakes. One of…

Oct 9, 2020