Category: Desserts
Three Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies
This recipe originally came from my friend Abby, who has a delightful blog called Manila Spoon. Besides being incredibly easy, they are incredibly satisfying and grain free to boot. My… Read More »
Ginger Almond Rhubarb Bars with Coconut Crust
Happy Mother’s Day! Not only is the following dessert a favorite of my mother, the timing is ideal, as rhubarb’s short season is upon us. If you haven’t… Read More »
Big Batch Peanut Butter Congo Bars
I wasn’t going to cook today. I really wasn’t. But then, my kids and their friends wanted to have a lemonade stand. After a cooler than usual spring,… Read More »
Strawberries and Cream “Ice Cream”
After an early spring snowstorm and generally chilly temperatures, spring finally arrived. Although, if we weren’t paying attention to the calendar, we may have thought it was summer!… Read More »
Bittersweet Chocolate Peanut Butter Eggs
Before I began making my Easter candy this year, I received a generous gift of assorted chocolates from a friend who works for The Hershey Company. I wanted… Read More »
Almond Bark with Sea Salt
Every year before Easter, I find myself up to my elbows in chocolate. For as long as I can remember, making homemade chocolates has been part of my… Read More »
Chocolate Peanut Butter Eggs
My grandmother delighted people with her absolutely perfect Easter eggs. Because it simply wasn’t enough to have them only at Easter time, she made then in the shape… Read More »
Coconut Cream Eggs
Non-coconut lovers have converted after sampling this treat. I have told my parents–who don’t typically argue but have bickered over these–that I will take their box away if… Read More »
Caramel Popcorn with Salted Peanuts
Salty, sweet, and crunchy. What better combination could one hope for? My aunt made a similar recipe years ago and gave tins filled with this mouth-watering mixture as… Read More »
Gladys Langford’s Apple Cake
Where does time go? I can hardly believe that it was one year ago that The Fountain Avenue Kitchen website launched. For the record, the site debuted on… Read More »
The Fountain Avenue Kitchen was my grandmother’s kitchen, the kitchen where I first pulled up a stool and watched the magic of turning basic, fresh ingredients into culinary wonders. Through today’s Fountain Avenue Kitchen, I hope to inspire people to try a new recipe, learn a new technique and eat more vegetables and wholesome grains ... but still enjoy a little dessert now and then. Pull up your chair and join me in the Fountain Avenue Kitchen!
