Apple Strudel, the perfect dessert at the end of a romantic dinner 🌹❤️

Dreaming of a summery colorful edible flower delight!

Illustrated apple varieties, my top faves! #1 is granny smith, then pink lady, jazz, braeburn, and fuji. They are all so tasty, which is your favorite?

One of my favorite places to escape New York City's hectic pace was "The Peacock", an Italian coffee house in the West Village. With Puccini playing in the background they served bracing coffee and soothing chamomile tea with tasty desserts made from scratch by a middle-aged waitress named Virginia. Her apple torte was incredible! Eventually Virginia and I became friends. One day, I asked her how she made the torte. Virginia modestly shared her mouth-watering recipe, reminding me to always top it off with fresh whipped cream!

An easy and tasty breakfast treat!

Mr. Elf shares his recipe for the holidays.

A family favorite for the holidays—or for any time—as a flavorful and festive accompaniment to turkey or beef. Cranberries, oranges, apples, and nuts combine for a satisfying salad or relish.

Southern Fried Apples for the Global Cuisine Challenge.
This winter recipe comes from my part of the world, the mountains of the Southern USA. These sweet fried apples are an easy and comforting dish to whip up on a cold evening, and the cinnamon gives them a warm holiday flavor. Our family loves to eat them as a side dish to pork, roasted vegetables, or bacon and eggs. I created this illustrated recipe with watercolor, oil pastels, colored pencil, and digital media. The title lettering was created by my mom Shelley in watercolor, ink, and digital media, and was inspired by the iconic print shop Hatch in Nashville, TN.

Our family recipe for Jewish apple cake passed down by my great-grandma to my grandma to me!

Easy, warm dessert, perfect for Fall season.

This vegetarian mince is perfect for the Holiday season!

Favorite Food Memories: My mom and I would make pies from scratch during the holidays. Making a pie was such a memorable activity for me being a creative child. Getting to make a mess with my hands in the kitchen and creating a yummy desert was just fantastic! I have fond memories of my mom teaching me her recipe. Even though I ended up being more of a cook than a baker, making pies is something I feel confident baking thanks to my Mom.

HandPicked Design Challenge

Fave Memory: The first year I started to love Thanksgiving! The setting: my cousin's house (first year hosting); the dinner: a simple turkey, mash, and sweet potato; the dessert: ALL the pie options, a cake, cookies and ice cream. Now THAT is a Thanksgiving made for a sweet tooth (me)!

This is my mom recipe, probably the only one she gave me!
Not because she's mean, but because she doesn't really love cooking.
In fact calling it recipe is a big word!
It's more about putting this ingredients together till having a nice dough, unless add more flour or milk
But anyway this was my first (failed) cooking experiment and also my final arrive
Create something based on what there's in the pantry, always with a smile on, and adding love as secret ingredient
I watched her making this cake so many times.. but never in the same way and never failed! and always asking how is that possible?
The perfume of this cake, a mix of apple sugar and cinnamon, bring me direct at childhood when dad, just back home, were turning the face of a heavy working day into a happy smile just smelling in the air that the apple cake was in the oven!
Even if I worked in many pastry shops, this one is the only cake I'm not able to reply because every time I try to add some perfections in it and that end just to ruin it!
If you'll try to make it, you'll ends out with a really good cake but believe me: nothing compared with my mum's one!!