Category: French Desserts

Amazingly Delicious Crêpe Suzette

Here we go again – our second nod to National Crêpe Suzette Day. We haven’t whipped up this yummy French favorite since 2019. You would have thought during the massively insane lockdowns of 2020, we would have been trying all sorts of Crêpe things.

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Petits Fours – Tiny Ovens and a Labor of Love

Petits Fours are one of my favorite cakes – so tiny and yet bursting with luscious sweetness. They dress up any dessert table. They make the perfect bite-size gifts in pretty little boxes all tied up with ribbons and bows. And such an adorable name – Petits Fours. The literal French translation is “tiny ovens”. Hum . . . as it turns out, Petits Fours were traditionally made in a smaller oven next to the main oven, thus the name for these tiny cakes.

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