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This easy sour cream coffee cake, from the famous Zingerman’s Bakehouse in Ann Arbor, MI, lives up to its well-deserved reputation. A cinnamon walnut filling swirls through a moist, buttery cake Bundt. Caution: Highly addictive. Adapted from Amy Emberling | Zingerman’s Bakehouse | Chronicle Books, 2017 Though unassuming in appearance, make no mistake, this coffee cake is indulgent to the nth degree. Butter, sour cream, and eggs make it incredibly rich and so moist it keeps for nearly a week. Sugar and spice and everything nice makes it as intoxicating to consume as it is to catch a whiff of...

Apple Cider Muffins are full of apple flavor with apple pie spice and apple cider and are the perfect treat to have with a cup of coffee, as a dessert, or even to just satisfy your sweet tooth! For another quick and sweet muffin, try my Cinnamon Sugar Donut Muffins. Apple Cider Muffins It’s all about apples and apple-flavored treats in the fall. But, you don’t even need to peel or chop any apples to get that popular fall flavor in these muffins. With homemade apple pie spice and apple cider, there is a sweet apple taste in every bite!...

s. The holiday has always been one I look forward to not just for the delicious food, but because it’s so much fun to celebrate with family and friends. Knowing our Thanksgiving celebration will look different this year has made me a little uneasy, but I’m holding fast to traditions that will make the day resemble something close to “normal.” For me, that means making our Herbed Butternut Squash Wellington and pumpkin pie, which my mom is always in charge of. These Mini Vegan Pumpkin Pies with Frosted Cranberries are perfect for a small Thanksgiving celebration!  Rather than making a...

s. If you love pecans, try my Pecan Pie Recipe for another delicious dessert. What is Dulce de Leche? Dulce de leche is added to the cheesecake in this recipe, but what is it? It is a rich and creamy sauce that is sweet like caramel and butterscotch but is made with sweetened milk, rather than sugar. There is some science behind the caramelization of the milk (Maillard reaction) that causes the browning, but I used a canned dulce de leche for this recipe, so I didn’t have to worry about that! Dulce de Leche Pecan Pie Recipe There are...

It’s definitely October, but here in Los Angeles it feels like summer is never going to end. We’ve suffered another heatwave this week and I am craving a change in the weather. I remember feeling antsy about the lagging change in seasons when I lived in Chicago, too – for the opposite reason of course. A snow shower in late April would completely crush my spirit. It’s pretty ironic how excited I am for cooler weather when that’s all I wanted to get away from most of my adult life. All of this is to say, this Vegan Apple Cider...