Best Desserts of 2012
With New Year’s Eve drawing near, I started flipping through photos from 2012 to smile at the year’s fun memories. As I scrolled through the albums, I laughed… All of my pictures were of food! (Well okay, except for the summer vacation to Kauai. And the father-daughter trip to Arizona.)
So I can’t exactly share very many memories, seeing as I barely remember lots of them, but I can relive a few of my favorite recipes instead!
cookies
#1: gluten-free nutella cookies
#3: salted chocolate balsamic cookies
#4: baked churros
(and the apple pie it came from!)
honorable mention: peanut butter and nutella popcorn balls
cakes & cupcakes
#1: German chocolate and lemon cupcakes
#2: orange poppy seed bundt cake
#3: strawberry lemon bundt cake
#5: berry-surprised mini lemon cupcakes
honorable mention: funfetti Christmas cupcakes
Although I have a rather large sweet tooth, I do have a few favorite recipes that don’t fall under the “dessert” category… So stay tuned!
Foods for the Soul 
sleepingwithacat replied:
What a good cook year! This recipe recap just open my apetite 😀
Happy New Year.
Kisses
http://thedailymiacis.blogspot.pt/
December 30, 2012 at 3:18 pm. Permalink.
foods for the soul replied:
Thank you! I had the same problem when I wrote this post; I wanted to go straight into my kitchen and bake everything all over again!
Happy New Year to you too!
December 30, 2012 at 3:33 pm. Permalink.
Andrea replied:
Okay… that strawberry lemon bundt cake looks TO DIE FOR!!! And the balsamic salted chocolate cookies… pinning for sure! Good idea on the round up!
December 30, 2012 at 6:26 pm. Permalink.
foods for the soul replied:
Thanks! I could never eat just one piece of the strawberry lemon bundt cake… Always at least two, sometimes three! I justified it by telling myself it was healthy from the two fruits inside. Maybe?
December 30, 2012 at 9:28 pm. Permalink.
Liz replied:
salted chocolate balsamic cookies? wowza:-) Looks like you had a yummy year!
December 30, 2012 at 8:47 pm. Permalink.
foods for the soul replied:
I definitely did! Probably my best baking year yet… And I’m hoping 2013 brings even more delicious desserts!
December 30, 2012 at 9:29 pm. Permalink.
Aarthi replied:
Oh I am craving a 10 AM sugar fix now…just looking at these yummy pictures! I LOVE lemony treats too…and I am bookmarking that recipe for strawberry lemon bundt!!
December 31, 2012 at 9:48 am. Permalink.
foods for the soul replied:
Aww thank you! I love photographing my food (probably a little too much!). I hope you enjoy the cake, once strawberry season rolls around!
December 31, 2012 at 2:42 pm. Permalink.
Brittany replied:
That German chocolate cupcake is gorgeous!! YUMM!
December 31, 2012 at 12:26 pm. Permalink.
foods for the soul replied:
Thanks!! I was excited when they ended up looking so pretty. But they definitely didn’t last very long! ;]
December 31, 2012 at 2:48 pm. Permalink.
Best Meals of 2012 « Foods for the Soul replied:
[…] know, the logical order would have been to start with my favorite meals of the year and finish with desserts… But I love sweets so much that I couldn’t wait to share those with you! I promise I didn’t […]
December 31, 2012 at 2:17 pm. Permalink.
xoxbekxox replied:
Thanks for this! I’ll have to make the churros for the boy sometime 😉
January 1, 2013 at 9:29 pm. Permalink.
foods for the soul replied:
My pleasure! My brother and his friend made them a few nights ago, and they ate every last one! So hopefully your boy will enjoy them as much as my brother did.
January 2, 2013 at 1:10 pm. Permalink.
crumbcoatedlife replied:
I’m so stoked the make those churros. Thanks for sharing!
January 2, 2013 at 8:20 pm. Permalink.
foods for the soul replied:
My pleasure! They seem to get eaten fairly quickly in our family, so I hope you enjoy them too!
January 2, 2013 at 9:32 pm. Permalink.
veryberryhandmade replied:
Oh my word! What a lot of yumminess on one page…! Those salted choc cookies look AMAZING, and I have always wanted to try making churros but was put off by deep frying – this looks more achievable by far. Fabulous stuff. 🙂
January 6, 2013 at 7:31 am. Permalink.
foods for the soul replied:
Thank you! I fried donuts once, very early in this blog’s career. It was fun, but I was pretty scared of burning myself! I was so excited that the churros turned just as well when I baked them instead. And I can’t get enough of the salt + chocolate combination either!
January 6, 2013 at 1:47 pm. Permalink.
bakearama replied:
Thank you for stopping by my blog, but most of all for introducing me to yours! What brilliant inspriation, now… what to try first??
January 23, 2013 at 5:55 am. Permalink.
foods for the soul replied:
My pleasure!! As for desserts, I’d definitely suggest the nutella cookies, German chocolate/lemon combo cupcakes, or orange poppy seed bundt cake. They’re all fairly easy and disappear faster than you can make them!
January 23, 2013 at 9:49 am. Permalink.