I’m so excited to share a childhood favorite: Egyptian-style butter cookies! Bite-size, melt-in-your-mouth butter cookies that are just the right amount of sweet. Best part? This butter cookies recipe requires so little work and only 3 ingredients: Ghee (highly clarified butter); powdered sugar; and flour. This recipe makes 35 small cookies; and I can assure…
Olive Oil Banana Walnut Bread (Video)
Skip the butter and sugar and try this healthy olive oil banana walnut bread that is naturally sweetened with honey and dates! The few ingredient tweaks here make an excellent, reduced-guilt banana bread. But don’t worry, this lower-calorie version is every bit as indulgent, moist and satisfying! Be sure to see the video tutorial below….
Easy Lahmacun Recipe
Think of Lahmacun (Lahamajoun) as super thin, crispy Turkish pizza (or Armenian pizza), topped with a flavor-packed mixture of minced meat with peppers, tomato, fresh herbs and earthy spices. I take a major shortcut by using quality store-bought pizza dough. But the secret is in the spice mixture! This lahmacun recipe is the perfect prepare-ahead…
Easy Apple Strudel with Phyllo
Homemade apple filling rolled in layers of paper-thin phyllo makes a light, flaky, and extra crispy apple strudel. This easy apple strudel with phyllo dough is the perfect dessert for a small crowd. Trust me, you’ll be the hero of the party! If you’ve been following for a while, you probably already saw one of my…
Lighter Orange Ricotta Cake
Show-stopping orange ricotta cake, made just a bit lighter with part-skim ricotta and olive oil. Ricotta’s texture and its mild and sweet flavor have made it a top choice in Italian cakes and desserts. And one of my absolute favorites happens to be torta di ricotta, a gorgeous tart made by filling pasta Frolla (Italian…
Cannoli Recipe (How to Make Cannoli Shells and Filling)
A foolproof cannoli recipe (shells and filling). Seriously dreamy, perfectly crisp shells filled with a ricotta and chocolate mixture. See the step-by-step tutorial with photos below the recipe! Click here to pin this recipe Cannoli literally translates to little tubes. Hand-formed, crispy, little pastry tubes. The perfect setting for my filling mixture of ricotta cheese, chocolate,…