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Dessert, Anyone?

Our favorite cures for your sweet tooth.

Bourbon Chocolate Pecan Pie by Wood and Spoon blog. This is a gooey pecan pie with a butter crisp crust, chocolate chips, and a splash of bourbon for flavor. This is the perfect alternative for traditional pecan pie. This pie is sweet and salty and a holiday dessert for bourbon lovers. Find the recipe and how to on thewoodandspoon.com .

Bourbon Chocolate Pecan Pie

Raspberry Lemon Thumbprint Cookies by Wood and Spoon blog. These are simple, sugar-coated thumbprint cookies flavored with lemon zest and filled with raspberry jelly. You can substitute your favorite jam into these cookies. So simple, perfect for fruit lovers, and a Christmas classic. Learn about this fun, kid-friendly Christmas cookie on thewoodandspoon.com

Raspberry Lemon Thumbprint Cookies

Maple Snickerdoodles by Wood and Spoon. These are soft and chewy sugar cookie snickerdoodles sweetened with maple syrup and flavored with cinnamon sugar. These simple fall cookies make a great dessert for christmas and thanksgiving holidays! Find the easy recipe on thewoodandspoon.com

Maple Snickerdoodles

Skillet Cookie for Two by Wood and Spoon blog. This is a chewy gooey skillet cookie baked in a small cast iron skillet. The perfect date night cookie! You can prepare this in less than 30 minutes from start to finish. Top this easy recipe with vanilla ice cream. Learn more on thewoodandspoon.com

Skillet Cookie for Two

Dessert, Anyone?

Our favorite cures for your sweet tooth

Peanut Butter Chocolate Babka by Wood and Spoon. This is a fluffy and sweetened braided bread filled with dark chocolate and peanut butter. This can serve as dessert or morning pastry! Making babka can be hard to learn how to do but with these steps you'll be baking in no time! Read more at thewoodandspoon.com by Kate Wood

Chocolate Peanut Butter Babka

Lemon Lavender Icebox Cake by Wood and Spoon. This is a lemon layer cake frozen with lavender whipped cream and a raspberry preserve filling. The cake can be made ahead of time in advance and serves a crowd. Perfect springtime treat for easter dessert or mothers day. This cake can be made rectangle or square or round and is way more simple that is looks! Get the how to on infusing lavender into food and makes a soft and fluffy citrus cake. Recipe by Kate wood thewoodandspoon.com

Lemon Lavender Icebox Cake

Brownie Shortbread Bars by Wood and Spoon. These are two layer bars made of a buttery vanilla bean shortbread crust and a gooey crackly top brownie. The brownie is rich and fudge without being overly dark, and the crust is crisp and tender. These bars are perfect for the shortbread lovers or for brownie lovers who love a great deal of texture! Learn how simple they are to make on thewoodandspoon.com

Brownie Shortbread Bars

Sprinkle Chocolate Chip Cookies by Wood and Spoon blog. These are chocolate chip cookies with added color and sweetness from rainbow sprinkles. Combined, the chocolate and nonpareils made a textured and flavorful chocolate chip cookie that is festive and fun to make. These simple cookies are easy to make and delicious for the whole family. Find the recipe on thewoodandspoon.com

Sprinkle Chocolate Chip Cookies

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

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!)

Marbled Sugar Cookies DIY Tutorial from The Wood and Spoon Blog by Kate Wood. This is a how to for sugar cookies frosted with black and white grey to look like stone marble! Simply dip the cookies in the powdered sugar glaze and watch the swirls decorate each dessert. These cookies are simple and a perfect treat for the holidays, particularly New YEar's eve parties! Check out this party recipe on thewoodandspoon.com

Marbled Sugar Cookies

Cooking Tutorial: Learn How to Make Custard and Homemade Creme Brûlée! This recipe instructional by Wood and Spoon gives instruction on the different types of custards, how to make them, and a simple, straight-forward recipes for vanilla bean creme brûlée. This elegant dessert is great for dinner parties and can be semi-made-ahead. Read all about this classic French dessert on thewoodandspoon.com

YOU NEED TO KNOW: How to Make Custard (and Classic Creme Brûlée!)

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

You need to know

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

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 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 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!)

Let's Get Cozy!

our favorite sweet bakes for Winter.

Classic Tiramisu by Wood and Spoon. This Italian dessert is made up of Kahlua and coffee soaked store bought lady fingers, a fluffy whipped cream and mascarpone filling, and cocoa powder. This dessert serves a crowd, is make ahead, and a romantic offering for fancy group dinners. Learn how to make i from scratch on thewoodandspoon.com

Classic Tiramisu

Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins by Wood and Spoon blog. These are light and fluffy homemade butter muffins scented with fresh lemon zest and juice. Poppy seeds throughout add flavor and texture and a simple confectioner's sugar glaze icing on top adds extra sweet and tang. Learn how to make these easy breakfast and brunch treats for a crowd on thewoodandspoon.com

Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins

Milk Chocolate Chip Cake by wood and spoon blog. This is a fluffy white cake studded with mini chocolate chips, filled with a milk chocolate truffle ganache, and frosted with a fluffy whipped milk chocolate frosting made with whipping cream. This makes a tall party cake perfect for celebrations and great for the chocolate lovers in your life. The cake has a delicate crumb from folding in the egg whites and the rest of the cake elements are rich in flavor and texture. Give it a try for your next holiday, birthday, or party. The recipe and how-to is on thewoodandspoon.com by Kate wood.

Milk Chocolate Chip Cake

Vanilla Bean Scones by Wood and Spoon Blog. This simple recipe for buttery cream scones is a copycat for Starbucks vanilla scones. The recipe makes a dozen small scones flavored with vanilla bean paste and topped with a simple icing. Learn more about the recipe on thewoodandspoon.com .

Vanilla Bean Scones

LET'S GET COZY

Comforting desserts
perfect for fall

Brown Sugar Pumpkin Roll by Wood and Spoon blog. This is an old fashioned pumpkin roll filled with a brown sugar cream cheese buttercream. This roll makes a terrific holiday dessert and the perfect roulade for Thanksgiving as an alternative to pie. Learn all about the recipe on thewoodandspoon.com !

Brown Sugar Pumpkin Roll

Brown Butter Snickerdoodle Blondies by Wood and Spoon blog. These are chewy brown butter blondies spiced with cinnamon and sugar. These one-bowl treats come together in less than 30 minutes and stay moist for days. Learn how to prepare these cozy make ahead treats on thewoodandspoon.com .

Brown Butter Snickerdoodle Blondies

Molasses Angel Biscuits By Kate of Wood and Spoon blog. These are fluffy yeast biscuits, naturally sweetened with rich molasses. These biscuits are a cross between a Parker house roll and a biscuit. Learn how to make these delicious butter biscuits on thewoodandspoon.com!

Molasses Angel Biscuits

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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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