Cranberry Cheesecake Tart with Sugar Cookie Crust

Each layer of this easy cranberry cheesecake tart is pure magic! The creamy and velvety cheesecake is the perfect base for the luscious and silky ruby-red cranberry curd. The sugar cookie crust brings a super fun snap to every bite. It’s an easy recipe that’s so perfect for the season! Top it with sugared cranberries and pretty sugar cookies and you have a show stealing dessert!

I think it’s probably that bright red color that makes you fall in love with this tart. I knew it will be oh-so-pretty, but I was so smitten with the final result. It was a staring contest between she and me, and she totally lost! It’s a bit of lemon juice in the curd plus…

Sugared Cranberries

Are you as excited for Christmas as I am? I can’t tell you how much we have been waiting for this time of the year. It’s always an uplifting time for the soul!

In the rush of the season, when I want to bake basically everything and share it with the people I love, sugared cranberries are always around. They are so full of sweetness and make the perfect thinking-of-you gift. Also, they will make any baked good look as if it came out of a Christmas tree instead of an oven.

What I love about sugared cranberries, besides that deep burgundy reddish color, is that they are…

Sugar Cookie Wreath

If you are looking for an adorable Christmas baking project but feel intimidated just by the thought of having to pour a glaze, this Sugar Cookie Christmas Wreath is the perfect one for you! Soft, chewy and simply the most delicious sugar cookies are arranged to form this wreath. The arrangement is what gives this wreath its beautiful poinsettia shape. No complicated decoration techniques or special tools required. It’s the cutest thing!!

You know I love the idea of creating beautiful things with less. That’s why I always found myself on a mission to create the prettiest things even when I have zero decorating skills. My goal is to create a a delightful experience for anyone, regardless of their decorating skills (me!!!!). Because no decorating skills shouldn’t mean no beautiful bakes!

This festive sugar cookie wreath is the perfect creation to embrace just that. The cookies are made with a very simple…

sweet eats, decadent desserts recipes, basic recipesDev AmadeoNovember 14, 2023chocolate, make ahead desserts, christmasComment

Lemon Basil Olive Oil Cake

You may think of this as a classic lemon olive oil cake, but then each bite has the sweet and aromatic notes of basil. Doesn’t it sound delicious?! This cake is very soft, moist, supple and lemony. It’s the cake for lemon lovers because it has lemon juice and lemon zest all over it! The cake itself is made in less than 45 minutes, including prep time, and you only need a few basic ingredients to make it. A super creamy buttercream with a touch of lemon and cream cheese is, literally, the icing on the cake!

sweet eats, cake recipesDev AmadeoAugust 15, 2023make ahead desserts, lemon, lemons, basil, spring, summer, olive oil, citrus Comments

Strawberry Lavender Sparkling Wine Ice Cream Floats

I can’t even tell you how much fun are these Sparkling Wine Strawberry Lavender Ice Cream floats. Think of these as that root beer float you love, but way nicer, prettier and fancier!! The elderflower notes in the St. Germain dance beautifully with the lavender and, well, the strawberries with the champagne are a perfect classic pair that needs no words. These floats are what summer daydreams are all about.

There are so many things that have written summer all over them, like watermelon, flip-flops and the desire of doing absolutely nothing after 3pm. But for me, nothing screams summer louder than strawberry ice cream. Fresh strawberry ice cream is the quintessential ice cream…

Super Creamy Espresso Cheesecake

You won’t find a creamier and silkier espresso cheesecake. The coffee taste is very present in each and every bite, without being bitter. The filling is ultra decadent but still airy, thanks to a trick I talk about below. And I made the chocolate crust with Dutch processed cocoa powder for a more intense chocolate flavor. I’m telling you, this is the cheesecake you must have when you have your next cheesecake craving!! It’s so good and so special to me!

A few Christmases ago we bought my hubby an espresso machine. The big one with lots of shiny buttons that I wasn’t allow to touch during the early days. My husband has always bonded with our daughter over coffee because…

sweet eats, cheesecake recipesDev AmadeoApril 28, 2023chocolate, coffee, meringue, cream cheese, christmas, make ahead desserts, thanksgivingComment

Classic Easy Tiramisu with Brownie Crust

I made this classic tiramisu with a brownie crust and it has to be one of the best things I have made lately! What’s not to love about this combo of coffee and chocolate?! To bring more flavor to the tiramisu, I sweetened the espresso with some of the sugar and infused the mascarpone cream with some of that espresso. The brownie crust, besides adding an amazing chocolate note, adds an incredible contrasting texture to the soft and creamy tiramisu. This tiramisu is a wonderful dessert that no one will have enough!

Blueberry Curd Cheesecake Tart

Of all the ways you can enjoy all the sweetness of blueberries, inside a creamy luscious cheesecake has to be one of my favorites! Topped with a smooth blueberry curd to make every bite even more bright and bursting with flavor, this blueberry cheesecake tart is going to be your new favorite dessert! Chilled to perfection so it will cool you down during this summertime!

I always have so much fun making layered desserts. I love that they’re so easy to put together! But probably what I love the most about them is that you can put two or even more things in one container. In life we’re never just one thing, right?. We are built in layers. This is so very true for me. I wouldn't be able…

White Forest Cake

If you are already spotting cherries, don’t waste any other day and make this sumptuous White Forest Cake! This is a very fluffy, moist and soft white sponge cake with a very delicate crumb, thanks to using cake flour and some white chocolate in the batter. It’s soaked in a simple cherry syrup, filled with a homemade liquor-spiked cherry compote and covered with a light and soft whipped cream frosting. It’s a dream of a cake!

For me cooking has always been about celebrating whatever my present is. I can assure you that the time that you have at the moment and the ingredients you have right in front of you will always be enough for creating something special and exciting. I have to admit I’m not big on seasonality. I live in an island in the middle…

sweet eats, cake recipesDev AmadeoJune 9, 2022make ahead desserts, cherries, white chocolate, whipped cream, summerComment

Cappuccino Cheesecake Bars

These cappuccino cheesecake bars are ultra creamy and silky, but you‘ll still have that wonderful coffee kick that you will love. They have a brownie bottom to make them ever more decadent. And they are topped with a pile of whipped cream dusted with cocoa and cinnamon, like a real cappuccino but without the mug. Lets say this is a coffee shot that you would be able to take anytime of the day!!

I have to admit I started drinking coffee veeeery late, as in less than 10 years ago. I had taken sips before, of course, but never had a daily routine of drinking coffee. My grandmother used to drink lots of it during the day. I’m talking about 5 to 6 cups a day. I loved sitting with her in…

Bourbon Salted Dulce de Leche Dark Chocolate Cupcakes with Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting

These cupcakes you guys!!! I know the tittle is long, but it’s precisely because all the things going on in here that make these cupcakes a dream. The cocoa flavor is intense because I used a 100% chocolate bar plus Dutch cocoa powder. The salted dulce de leche brings the perfect salty caramel note that balance the sweetness. And they are crowned with a perfectly smooth and velvety brown butter cream cheese frosting that’s like a dream. You will be so happy bite after bite!

Do you wanna know why I’m so excited about these cupcakes? Well, these are my first cupcakes ever on the blog!! Hooray! Can you believe that?! You know I have never been a big cupcake person. I have made them for family parties but they have never made it…

Creamy White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake

You won’t believe how silky and luscious this creamy white chocolate raspberry cheesecake is. The white chocolate enhances the sweet and tangy notes of the cream cheese and the raspberries, doing wonders for the texture and flavor of this cheesecake, trust me! The key is adding the white chocolate at the very last moment. Top it with a mountain of Italian Meringue and you will have a cheesecake that’s impossible to resist!

I have this thing of loving to see everyone around me happy. I bet you do too! That is the real thing Valentine’s should be all about. And cheesecakes always make everyone happy! In my family, with my friends and with all of you here at The Yellow Butterfly, everyone has a very special reaction to my cheesecakes and never can resist to them. I know you guys love many sweet and pretty confections I share here. But with cheesecakes…