Coconut Cherry White Chocolate Bars are amazing. The bottom is a layer of  shortbread, followed by a gooey sweet layer of coconut, cherry and white chocolate and the thinnest of sugary, crispy crusts forms on top during baking.  Pure bliss. Pure richness. Best of all these, like all bar cookies, are  super easy and quick.

O.k..so it took me nearly all night but I did some baking. In fact this recipe is out of my cookbook….sort of. I found out something interesting tonight. I can’t even follow my OWN recipes verbatim.

I wanted to share one of the recipes from my cookbook in case you wanted to pre-test it.  This is one of my favorites, and very unusual- blueberry white chocolate chip cookies.  I developed these because I loved the blueberry white chocolate muffins I made so much.  I kept thinking that it would make such an awesome flavor combination in the right cookie-and I was right!

These are crispy on the outside, chewy on the inside, with a buttery combination of flavors that just keep revealing themselves as you eat: lemon, white chocolate, nutmeg, blueberry…

Not as good as in my dream.  Unfortunatly I have never made the perfect macaron.  Ever.  This was no exception but the result was delicious.
Not magazine cover beautiful…but delicious.

You read that right. I have been trying to come up with a white french silk recipe that I was happy with for a very long time. VERY long time.
Why?
Well, personally I find that french silk is one of those things that is a baking staple. It makes a great pie, granted, but it also makes a fantastic cake or torte filling, tart filling, rolled sponge cake filling or cookie filling. With a few changes you can create a number of flavors..but white silk eluded me. It was always too sweet, too bland..too buttery…or it didn’t …read more

This was the second time I could participate in The Leftover Queen’s Food Joust. Last month I was the ne that picked the ingredients so I stayed out of the competition.
This month’s ingredients were: Lavender, pears, and white chocolate. The minute I read them I was thinking puff pastry. and creme anglais. Today after church I came home and put the dessert together. AT this moment in time there is not one crumb left. Not one. It was an amazing combination, and I hope you will try it. If you use the frozen puff pastry sheets rather …read more

Yep, you read that right. Oh my, they are sooo good. We used to make them at the tea room that we owned and they would sell out almost as soon as we took them out of the oven. The aroma just took over the dining area!
  Still haveing computer problems, now both of our computers are down, so here I sit at the library! Is that dedication or what?  Unfortunatly I can’t upload photos so most of my blogging will be without illustration..
2 c flour
1/2 c sugar
1/4 c packed brown sugar
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 c milk
1 …read more