I loathe making pie crust but I love making pie. I’m too busy perfecting the filling to want to worry about a rubbery crust or not enough flake in each bite. Also, I’m somewhat stressing out that I didn’t get the proper pan and wondering if the pie is going to stick to the bottom
Desserts
Baked Pumpkin Spice Donuts
Although this Fall may look a little different with a few stylish face coverings as you go to carry on about your Fall activities, one thing remains the same: the craving for autumnal flavors and hearty meals. On a recent trip to Cashiers NC, we indulged in a few cinnamon spice donuts at Mountain Fresh
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Rustic Peach Tart Recipe
This rustic peach tart recipe combines familiar spices with super-ripe Georgia peaches and pre-made pie crust for an incredibly easy and flavorful dessert. This recipe is inspired by the delicious flavors of summer in the South and creating easy, wholesome desserts the whole family will love.
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Peach Ice Cream with Brown Sugar Shortbread Cookie Crumble
FINALLY, my exhaustive ice cream trials have yielded the smoothest, creamiest, homemade ice cream. Okay, maybe exhaustive is a little bit of a stretch but after 4 rounds of grainy, large ice crystal ice cream production, I was starting to get a little discouraged. How come I couldn’t make super creamy ice cream? Was my
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5 Ingredient Vegan No Sugar Added Popsicles
Thank you to the Sola Company for sponsoring this post. Although this post has a sponsored element to it, all opinions, recipes, and images are our own. Thanks for supporting the brands that help keep Darling Down South running. Look, this isn’t your run of the mill vegan recipe trying to taste like something else
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The Classic Birthday Cake for our 5 Year Bloggiversary
Hello from another year older and wiser. The blog has turned 5 as of Cinco de Mayo! It’s a darn shame we’re all stuck indoors because I wanted to have a reader thank you party called the Cinco de Darling, but since we can’t gather I figured I would share this classic birthday cake with
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Sugar Free Nutella Hazelnut Bread Pudding
Yep, starting this recipe off with an anecdote. This was supposed to be a French toast bake, which Jan had declared was her new favorite breakfast casserole. I was trying to piggy back off of the fame of our Blueberry Brioche French Toast Bake with this sugar-free Sola Bread, but ended up declaring this a
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Homemade Chocolate Hazelnut Spread (Better Than Justin’s!)
I learned the other day that Nutella was a complete accident and it was created during the chocolate rations of World War 2. It’s one of the few products on the market where the inventors were trying to water down chocolate and ended up making a product better than the original. Fast forward to today,
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The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies + They’re Freezer Friendly Too!
Print The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe Prep Time 30 mins Cook Time 11 mins Course: Dessert Cuisine: American Keyword: chocolate chip cookies Ingredients 1 1/4 cups Muscavado Brown Sugar (or super dark brown sugar, see notes) 3/4 cup granulated sugar 8 ounces unsalted butter softened 1/4 cup olive oil 2 large eggs room
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Quick & Easy Blueberry Hand Pies
I was going to say that summer is the season of pie but then it just hit me that pie really doesn’t have a season and it’s perfect all year round. However, there are some pies more suited to summer like my absolute favorite, blueberry pie and we’ve made it an even more approachable summer