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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

Swedish Cinnamon Rolls by Wood and Spoon blog. These are twisted and knotted cinnamon rolls filled with a sugar spiral filling and dotted with Swedish pearl sugar. Cardamom and spices flavor the dough and filling. These make delicious breakfast brunch or dessert pastries and can be topped with a glaze if desired. Read more on the recipe on thewoodandspoon.com

Swedish Cinnamon Rolls

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

Blood Orange Cheesecake Recipe by The Wood and Spoon blog by Kate Wood. This recipe is for a citrus cheesecake flavored with ruby red blood oranges, The crust is a cinnamon brown sugar and graham cracker crust and the whole thing is topped with a sweet whipped cream topping. The cheesecake, made with cream cheese, is adapted from miette bakery, and has a beautiful pink orange hue due to the oranges! This recipe gives a lot of how-to's on making cheesecakes without crack, bubbles, soggy crust from leaking water bath, etc so check it out on thewoodandspoon.com

Blood Orange Cheesecake

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

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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!)

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!)

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

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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

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

Let's Get Cozy!

our favorite sweet bakes for Winter.

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

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

Orange Layer Cake by Wood and Spoon Blog. This is a 3 layer vanilla and orange scented cake with a cream cheese and orange buttercream. This citrus cake is aromatic, made with orange zest and juice. The layers are fluffy and the balanced. This cake is the perfect cake to transition from winter to spring and is beautiful for Easter as well. Learn how to make it on thewoodandspoon.com.

Orange Layer Cake

One-Banana Banana Bread Recipe by Kate Wood. What to do with a leftover brown banana? MAKE BANANA BREAD! This one has browned butter, is sweetened with brown sugar, and has a hint of cinnamon and vanilla. You can make this as a mini banana bread loaf or just a sized-down version in a normal loaf pan. Find the recipe and more on thewoodandspoon.com

One-Banana Banana Bread

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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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