Summer is in full swing and we are cooling off with these fun Baked Alaska Tarts! How beautiful are they? Making a full sized Baked Alaska can seem intimidating, and sometimes you don’t need quite so much dessert (although if you ask my family, there is never too much!). These Baked Alaska Tarts are a fun to make and easy to make ahead and pull out for a party or last minute guests!...

Why you will love this Individual Cheesecake recipe Before we get to the land of perfectly chocolate-glazed mini cheesecakes with heart strawberry cut-outs, we have to start at the beginning. We all love loaf pan cheesecake. However, we can all over-do it on cheesecake, am I right? This is not true for the mini egg cheesecake, however–that never gets old. I’ve been playing with my recipe for small batch mini cheesecakes made in muffin cups for probably a decade....

Ok, you and I have got to get our coffee shop habit in check! In the winter, I’m usually too cold to venture out of the house, and I’m more likely to make a caramel latte home. If I want something spicy, I will make my chai latte and slowly sip it all morning. However, my kids love going to the coffee shop, because they get a container strawberry milk and some other kind of sweet breakfast treat that I normally would let them have for dessert, not breakfast....

If you are anything like us, when quarantine 2020 started, you might have planted a vegetable garden. Starting the seeds with the kids was a fun activity, plus writing the names of the vegetables on the stakes was great letter practice, too! My neighbors and I were leaving seed packets on porches to trade and make sure we had a variety of seeds to plant with the kids. My efforts at homeschooling are imperfect at best, but gardening is one skill I have in my toolkit....

This recipe is sponsored by Harry and David, but all opinions and recipe creation is my own. You might already know this, but Valentine’s Day is a big deal around here. The Dessert for Two blog people reaches it pinnacle audience for a mere 2 weeks a year. The rest of the year, we all just need small batches of cowboy cookies, easy chicken dinners for two, and homemade puff pastry....

But, a 9x13" pan of anything in a household of two is a great way for us to never want to eat a certain recipe ever again. People tell me that if two people split one pan of lasagne in between bouts of feeding a newborn baby, we’ll never want to eat lasagne again. I can definitely see that happening. Anytime I make a casserole in this house, I either scale it down to fit in an 8x8" pan, or I put half in the freezer....

Once you have puff pastry on top of chicken pot pie, you’ll never go back to pie crust or canned biscuits. This recipe is more of an amalgamation of two things that should have been put together a long time ago: my 15-minute puff pastry and the filling from my Lazy Girl Chicken Pot Pie (<–which is chicken pot pie filling on top of toast, if you’ve never been as lazy as me)....

New to the air fryer? Check out my Best Air Fryer Recipes for Beginners! All right, here’s the truth. Baked potatoes aren’t really something I crave. Give me these Roasted Potatoes, give me a big bowl of these Slow Cooker Mashed Potatoes, give me the entire pan of these Scalloped Potatoes instead. Baked potatoes? They just never seemed very special, until I made them in the Air Fryer. Air Fryer Baked Potatoes have a few things going for them: they are super easy and mostly hands off (no watching or flipping or stressing)....

Before I get to the requests that are rolling in for my 30 days of chocolate campaign for Valentine’s Day, I thought I would fulfill my own request first. I can’t stop thinking about chocolate cookies. And not just any chocolate cookie—a soft, chewy cookie chock full of melting chocolate chunks. Have you noticed that chocolate chips don’t melt very much in the oven? That’s why I used chocolate chunks for these cookies....

Sticky buns and cinnamon rolls are not the same thing, did you know? I grew up with soft, yeasty cinnamon rolls. Sticky buns are um, really sticky. The caramel bottom, which becomes the top after flipping, is messy and can become too firm if not eaten warm. Sticky buns are also dough-ier and gooey-er (are these words?). This concludes today’s pastry and vocabulary lessons. I stole this recipe idea from The Barefoot Contessa....

PIN THIS RECIPE FOR LATER I know that maybe it seems a little strange to see me get excited about this no mayo potato salad after I shared this Classic Potato Salad with Bacon two short months ago, but grilling weather is at least a few months here in Manitoba and a girl’s gotta have options, right?!? I do love potato salad with mayo (even though I’ve confessed over and over that I despise mayo and it’s the only way I’ll eat it)....

My Mom is coming to visit this week to help stock my freezer with meals for post-baby. This means that all those odd bits and pieces of things in my freezer must go. I’ve got to make room for frozen casseroles, soups, and other meal-prep related things! I can’t think of a better thing in the world than a whole freezer full of food made with love by Mom. Everything must go in order to make way for all the love!...

Love hearty, healthy soup recipes? Try my Cabbage Roll Soup, my Chicken Gnocchi Soup or this Easy Taco Soup recipe next! Soup season is back in full swing here on The Recipe Rebel and I couldn’t be more excited! So far we’ve added this rich and creamy Potato Soup, this flavorful Italian Sausage Soup, and this Chicken Tortellini Soup to the mix — all instant favorites with many of you!...

If a tropical vacation isn’t on your horizon anytime soon, these Hawaiian Chicken Kabobs are the next best thing! I don’t know what it is about kabobs, but there’s something about eating food off of skewers that makes everything taste even better. It’s also one of the rare occasions where eating with your hands is not only acceptable, it’s encouraged! So what is it about these chicken skewers that gives them their Hawaiian twist?...

Whether it’s a Strawberry Smoothie, a Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie, or an Apple Crisp Smoothie, smoothies make a great breakfast, snack, or even dessert. But, as simple as they are to make, they’re also surprisingly easy to mess up. They can be too thick, too thin, too sweet, not sweet enough, too chunky, too icy…yeah, you get it. Well, I’m going to show you just How to Make a Smoothie!...

Check out more kitchen basic “how to” staples like How to Freeze Bananas, How to Cook Frozen Chicken Breasts and How to Cut a Pineapple. If you’re a cold pizza lover, this is not for you! For the rest of us who like our pizza slices to be nice and hot, grab your air fryer and let me show you the best way to Reheat Pizza in the Air Fryer....

If there’s anyone who has trouble straying from a traditional roast beef with gravy, they need to try this crockpot Italian Beef! I will admit I myself was a little skeptical, because I’m a little wary of spicy food and don’t use pepperoncini much in my day-to-day cooking. But the flavor of this beef and the sauce is so incredible, it’s worth a try! As much as I love a classic Slow Cooker Pot Roast or a big bowl of Honey Balsamic Slow Cooker Beef Stew, this is a fun and flavorful twist on crockpot beef that everyone loves!...

My regular easy sugar cookie recipe has been on rotation in our house almost weekly for years. I even have friends that bake the recipe often with their kids, because it’s so simple. It makes just 6 cookies, which is the perfect amount for little hands. For these lavender cookies, I simply took that same cookie recipe but I blended a small amount of lavender buds into the granulated sugar before proceeding with the recipe....

Fun fact: I only own 2 ramekins. So, while I’ve been on this self-imposed journey to miniaturize all the cakes into ramekins (see: chocolate cake for two), I’ve been washing a lot of ramekins. More specifically, I’ve been washing them when they’re still scalding hot, right out of the oven. Whenever I have a cake failure, I have to remove the evidence immediately. If I don’t trash my cake fails, then I eat them....

This was one of the first recipes I scaled down to size. I’ve always been mesmerized by the versions of Texas chocolate sheet cake (or sheath cake, as my grandmother called it). My Mom’s version is made with shortening and contains cinnamon. I kept the cinnamon but replaced the shortening with butter. This little chocolate cake really cures the homesick blues. The thing that sets Texas Chocolate Sheet Cake apart is the use of cinnamon in a chocolate cake....