easy dessert

These bar cookies have the satisfying texture and heft of a brownie, but a wonderful butterscotch flavor.

If there is a person in the world who can turn down a slice of ice cream pie, well…I don’t think that person and I would be friends.

Something about butterscotch makes people (eg me) very happy.

The best thing to happen to a bowl of ice cream since fudge sauce.

All the secrets to how to make perfect homemade whipped cream every time. Your desserts will never be the same!

The Italians use olive oil in sweet things as well as savory, and this particular sauce is a total keeper – so sophisticated and so simple, and SO pretty. I was doing a book signing recently at an Editors’ Showcase in New York City, and next to me Chefs Sean Gallagher and culinary star Fabio Viviani were doing a demo, featuring a polenta cake drizzled with blueberry sauce spiked with olive oil.  When they asked me if I wanted to take a pint of it home, I — no fool — shoved it right into my bag. A few nights …