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Dessert, Anyone?

Our favorite cures for your sweet tooth.

Bourbon Toffee Chocolate Chunk Cookies by Wood and Spoon blog. These are chewy chocolate chip cookies filled with bourbon, toffee, and pretzels. These cookies are sweet and salty with a hint of whiskey, making them the perfect dessert to serve at Kentucky Derby parties. Bourbon lovers will love these cookies! Find the recipe and how-to at thewoodandspoon.com

Bourbon Toffee Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Oatmeal Cream Pies by Wood and Spoon blog. This copycat recipe is a sandwich cookie featuring soft, chewy oatmeal cookies and a simple marshmallow fluff filling. These cookies make a great treat for people who love Little Debbie snacks and are fun for kids to make too! Find the recipe and learn how to on thewoodandspoon.com .

Oatmeal Cream Pies

Bourbon Toffee Chocolate Chunk Cookies by Wood and Spoon blog. These are chewy chocolate chip cookies filled with bourbon, toffee, and pretzels. These cookies are sweet and salty with a hint of whiskey, making them the perfect dessert to serve at Kentucky Derby parties. Bourbon lovers will love these cookies! Find the recipe and how-to at thewoodandspoon.com

Bourbon Toffee Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Gooey Funfetti Bars by Wood and Spoon. These are gooey blondie bars loaded with cake batter flavor and colorful sprinkles. These rich bars feed a crowd and can be made in one bowl in advance. Learn how simple these gooey sprinkle bars are on thewoodandspoon.com

Gooey Funfetti Bars and the 10 Best Sprinkle Desserts to Try ASAP

Dessert, Anyone?

Our favorite cures for your sweet tooth

Cookies and Cream Rolls by Wood and Spoon blog. Here, King Arthur Flour's #recipeoftheyear for pillowy cinnamon rolls is transformed with a cookies and cream filling and sweetened ooey glaze. The rolls are soft and fluffy and the lightly sweetened filling is the perfect match for the buttery frosting. Learn how simple it is to make from scratch cinnamon rolls with chocolate sandwich cookies on thewoodandspoon.com

Cookies and Cream Rolls

Chocolate Caramel Pecan Tarts by Wood and Spoon blog. These are pecan graham cracker crusted mini tartlets filled with a dark chocolate ganache, a salted caramel sauce, whipped cream, and toasted pecans. THe recipe makes 4 mini desserts fun for parties and are a rich sweet and salty treat for all year round. Almost no bake and simple to make! Find the recipe on thewoodandspoon.com

Chocolate Caramel Pecan Tarts

Sweet Potato Pie Tart with Candied Pecans and Marshmallow Whipped Cream by Wood and Spoon blog. A simple pumpkin pie-esque tart made with sugared nuts, a nuts and graham cracker crust, and a fluffy sweetened whipped cream topping! This is a terrific southern holiday favorite dessert to make during thanksgiving and Christmas winter months and is a beautiful take on the classic treat. Learn how to make them on thewoodandspoon.com

Sweet Potato Pie Tart with Candied Pecans and Marshmallow Whipped Cream

Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Biscuits recipe by Wood and Spoon. These are soft and fluffy southern style biscuits filled with butter and cream cheese. The glaze is a creamy frosting and the icing add sweetness to the pastry. These are great treats for weekday breakfast or weekend brunch. inspired by Callie's hot little biscuits, this food feels special and makes the mornings more fun. Find the recipe and how-to at thewoodandspoon.com by Kate Wood.

Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Biscuits

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The kitchen tutorials and how-to's we can't live without

Half Birthday Cake Tutorial and Recipe by Wood and Spoon blog. Learn how to transfer a simple single layer vanilla cake into a fun celebratory half birthday cake! The recipe for this simple vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream is a great way to celebrate everyday occasions like half birthdays. Find the recipe and how to on the woodandspoon.com

A Half Birthday Cake Tutorial & 6 Months with Her Daily Bread!

Homemade Sprinkles by Wood and Spoon blog. Here's the how to on making sprinkles from scratch! Follow one of three ways to make hand-dyed jimmies, nonpareils, and flaked sugar confetti. Use these edible decorations to glitter cakes, cookies, cupcakes and more! Find the recipes and learn DIY from scratch here on thewoodandspoon.com

YOU NEED TO KNOW: How to Make Homemade Sprinkles

How to Stack a Layer Cake by Wood and Spoon blog. Learn the tips and how to for stacking pretty naked cakes and layer cakes from scratch homemade! Step by step tutorial with photos for learning can decorating for beginners. Learn about leveling cakes, crumb coats, filling a cake, piping borders, and more. On thewoodandspoon.com

YOU NEED TO KNOW: How to Stack a Layer Cake

How to Make Pate a Choux and Coconut Cream Pie Puffs by Wood and Spoon. This is a step by step photographic tutorial on how to prepare French puff pastry with eggs and flour to make cream puffs profiteroles eclairs etc. Coconut cream pie custard filling is stuffed in the bites and topped with white chocolate and toasted coconut. For more on how to make this bite sized delicate fancy dessert read the recipe on thewoodandspoon.com

YOU NEED TO KNOW: How to Make Pâte à Choux (And Coconut Cream Pie Puffs!)

You need to know

The kitchen tutorial and how-to's we can't live without

You Need to Know How to Whip Egg Whites and Make Meringue Cookies. This is a tutorial on whipping egg whites to firm, stiff, soft, or foamy peaks and how to make a meringue! Learn how to make easter resurrection cookies with pecans and how to troubleshoot what went wrong with your egg whites. Why did they defeat, not fluff up, not whip, etc. Learn how to use up egg whites in this tutorial post on thewoodandspoon.com by Kate Wood

YOU NEED TO KNOW: How to Whip Egg Whites (and Make Meringue Cookies!)

You Need to Know How to Make Caramel by Wood and Spoon Blog. This is a tutorial with visual cues on how to caramelize sugar. Learn how to know when caramel is done, when to pull caramel off the heat, and how to prevent a crystallized, grainy caramel mess! Learning about caramel is an essential baking skill that you can master today! Read more here on thewoodandspoon.com by Kate Wood caramel sauce, salted, spun sugar, drizzle

You Need to Know: How to Make Caramel

You Need to Know How to Make Ganache and Homemade Chocolate Truffles by The Wood and Spoon Blog by Kate Wood. This simple tutorial will teach you the ins and out of preparing ganache from bittersweet , milk, semisweet, dark, or white chocolate. From there, learn to make a few different types of truffles including coconut, orange, coffee, peppermint, hazelnut, Nutella, peanut butter, and sea salt. This recipe and how to will teach you how to make pourable glaze, whipped, thick and fudgy filling ganache, and more. Find the recipe and learn how to make homemade candy for Valentine's Day on thewoodandspoon.com

YOU NEED TO KNOW: How to Make Ganache (and Homemade Chocolate Truffles!)

Let's Get Cozy

Settle in with our favorite fall treats

Derby Pie Bars Recipe by The Wood and Spoon Blog. This buttery shortbread bar is based on favorite Kentucky recipe. With a crumble crust, bourbon pecan pie and brown sugar filling, and a drizzle of chocolate these simple bars bake up quickly and are enjoyable for a crowd. Get the recipe in time for the Kentucky derby at www.thewoodandspoon.com.

Derby Pie Bars

Dutch Apple Pie by Wood and Spoon Blog. This is a delicious fall pie made with homemade pie crust, cinnamon sugar apples and a streusel crumb topping. This pie is great for Thanksgiving or holidays and makes a yummy alternative for regular apple pie. Learn how to make homemade apple pie with brown sugar crumble on thewoodandspoon.com

Dutch Apple Pie

Pumpkin Pecan Tart with Maple Whipped Cream by Wood and Spoon. This is a graham cracker and pecan salted crust baked and filled with a no bake pumpkin cream cheese filling. Flavored with brown sugar and cinnamon, this pie is cool but totally fall. Top the whole thing off with toasty pecans and maple whipped cream. Give this autumn dessert a try for Thanksgiving or upcoming dinner parties! Recipe by Kate wood on thewoodandspoon.com

Pumpkin Pecan Tart with Maple Whipped Cream

Brown Sugar Pound Cake with Blueberries and Brown Butter Crumb Topping Recipe by The Wood and Spoon Blog by Kate Wood. This recipe makes two loaves of moist southern style pound cake swirled with blueberries and topped with a brown butter brown sugar crumble. This is a simple recipe with many of the elements being make ahead. This is also a great breakfast loaf/ dessert to share with friends because there are two cakes made! Find the recipe on thewoodandspoon.com

Brown Sugar Pound Cake with Blueberries and Brown Butter Crumble

LET'S GET COZY

Comforting desserts
perfect for fall

20 Recipes to Bake in 2023 from Wood and Spoon blog. These are 20 of the best baked treats, sweets, and desserts with everything from chocolate chip cookies, layer cakes, pound cake loaves, ice cream, pies, and more. Learn how to make easy simple baking as a new year's resolution on thewoodandspoon.com.

20 Recipes to Make in 2023 (and a Giveaway!)

Brown Butter Bourbon Chess Pie by Wood and Spoon blog. This is a brown sugar, brown butter, and bourbon Southern chess pie. this is a gooey pie with a flaky homemade crust. The pie serves a crowd, is perfect for holidays and fall, and finishes with flakes salt. Learn how to make homemade chess pie on thewoodandspoon.com

Brown Butter Bourbon Chess Pie

S'mores Hi-Hat Cupcakes by Wood and Spoon blog. These are graham cracker cupcakes topped with a marshmallow topping and dipped in a milk chocolate shell. These cupcakes taste like s'mores and are a beautiful way to feature chocolate magic shell. Learn how to make them on thewoodandspoon.com

S’mores Hi-Hat Cupcakes

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King Cake Cinnamon Rolls by Wood and Spoon blog. This is a recipe for brioche style cinnamon rolls filled with a cinnamon brown sugar filling and topped with a thick or thin powdered sugar icing glaze. Each roll is topped with festive Mardi Gras sprinkles as homage to the original king cakes! Celebrate the mardi gras season with these yummy breakfast or dessert rolls on thewoodandspoon.com

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Wood and Spoon Charleston the ins and outs of what to see and do while visiting Charleston South Carolina. This is a foodie guide to a great Southern seaside east coast destination. Great for traveling with family sight seeing and loads to do.

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