Cherry Cheese Muffins are easy to make and a deliciously decedent dairy treat! Do you receive the Overtime Cook email newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips, menus and more! Click here to sign up. P.S – it’s completely free! Is this a muffin? Is it a cheesecake? Honestly, it's both! It's the best of both worlds, with a cheesecake infused muffin batter, a graham cracker crust at the bottom, and a cherry topping! Want to switch it up? Instead of cherry, use your choice of fruit pie filling, or you can top it with caramel sauce or fudge sauce, then some toppings like nut brittle, chocolate candies, or candied nuts. Whatever you top these with, they'll be … [Read more...]
Cherry Pie Thumbprint Cookies
Enjoy the best flavors of summer with these irresistible, sweet and delicate Cherry Pie Thumbprint Cookies. Have a question about one of my recipes? The best place to get answers is the Overtime Cook Recipes Facebook Group! Today's post is going to be a short one, but the recipe is going to make up for it, I promise! I've been swamped lately, especially with photography work. When I originally quit my full time marketing job, I had dreams about what it would mean to be a full time food blogger. I imagined having endless hours to make a ton of food, time to post multiple recipes each week. But in reality, life goes in funny directions some times, and lately, my work as a freelance … [Read more...]
Cherry Lime Bundt Cake
One of the tough things about writing a recipe column for a magazine is doing things way in advance. I originally made this cake recipe in March...way before cherries graced the shelves of the supermarkets in my area. So I came up with a solution, and bought a package of cherries from the freezer aisle. Well, that's a good solution for making this fabulous cake year round, but now that it's summer and delicious fresh cherries are abundantly available, there's only one way to make these properly, and it involves fresh cherries, and a handy cherry pitter sent to me by my friends over at OXO! This is one of my favorite new bundt cake recipes - fresh, bright, light, and simply delicious. Try … [Read more...]
Homemade Cherry Pie and a Lattice Crust Tutorial
When I was growing up, there was a store my family frequented that had an amazing bakery section. They baked everything fresh on premises, and it was all super delicious. My parents still shop there often, and they never leave the store without a loaf or two of their amazing homemade bread, or maybe a couple of bagels. There's one treat we often used to buy from this bakery that stood out in my mind above all else. Their cherry pie never looked very elegant. It was wrapped in saran wrap that often stuck to the top a bit, and the "lattice" crust was made from a cutter, not an actual lattice. But nobody could care about that, because it was just so delicious. We didn't get this pie often, and … [Read more...]