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Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins [with video]

These pumpkin cream cheese muffins are inspired by Starbucks’ baked treat but is made from scratch and so much easier on the budget!

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A pumpkin cream cheese muffins broken in half with more whole muffins next to it on a black oval plate.

I’ll be completely honest with you guys. I rarely go to Starbucks. It’s not that I don’t like coffee. I actually LOVE coffee. But I also happen to live in San Francisco, where there are plenty of small individual coffee shops that sell fantastic coffee drinks. But that doesn’t mean I’m immune to the call of the pumpkin spice latte (which inspired my pumpkin spice latte bread as well as my pumpkin spice frappuccino). Mostly though, I stop by a Starbucks to pick up a muffin or baked good when I’m in a hurry. And when they have them, my go-to choices is their pumpkin cream cheese muffin. Finally, I decided I needed to develop my own version at home. Now, I may never visit that big coffee chain shop again!

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Pumpkin Star Bread with Dried Cranberries [with video]

This stunning pumpkin star bread has a beautiful golden orange hue from the pumpkin puree in the dough, and is easier to make than it looks!

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A pumpkin star bread with dried cranberries filling sitting on a gold wire cooling rack with a kitchen towel underneath.

The weather is finally turning cooler in my hometown of San Francisco and the quality of light has the autumnal color in the air that feels cooler and crisp. All of which means I want to get into the kitchen and bake more than usual. And I usually always want to bake! And like everyone that is obsessed with pumpkin nowadays, I’ve gone through my old favorites like pumpkin spice latte bread, pumpkin chocolate monkey bread, pumpkin chocolate chip cookies and pumpkin snickerdoodle as well as my recent pumpkin bread pudding. But this time I wanted to make something a little more special occasion, so I created a pumpkin star bread with dried cranberries. It’s an impressive looking baking project that is actually much easier to make than it looks. Which, as we all know, is my favorite sort of baking project!

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Pumpkin Bread Pudding with Brown Butter and Dried Cranberries [Sponsored Post]

This rich and easy-to-make pumpkin bread pudding is the perfect autumnal dessert, elevated with the addition of brown butter and dried cranberries.

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A bowl of pumpkin bread pudding with a pan of more bread pudding and a plate of butter sticks near it.

This post was sponsored by Real California Milk. I was compensated for this post and developing this recipe. However, all opinions below are my own. To find more recipe inspiration visit the Real California Milk website.

Things are cooling off here in San Francisco and I’m getting snuggly cozy in my woolen socks and comfy sweater. And with cooler weather, that also means comfy baking projects with pumpkin! I’ve made various pumpkin recipes in the past like pumpkin snickerdoodles, pumpkin chocolate chip cookies with streusel topping, pumpkin spice latte bread, and pumpkin coffee cake. But lately I’ve been craving an easy-to-make yet rich and decadent dessert. That’s when I came up with this pumpkin bread pudding made with brown butter and dried cranberries! It hits all the right autumnal notes, with warm spices from the pumpkin pie spice blend, as well as the tart dried cranberries and earthy pumpkin. Using Real California butter, melted and cooked into a nutty and fragrant brown butter, just takes this fast and easy sweet treat up a notch!

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Neapolitan Cheesecake Brownies (Strawberry, Vanilla, and Chocolate)

These Neapolitan brownies have strawberry and vanilla cheesecake swirls in a chocolate brownie, inspired by the ice cream flavor.

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A hand reaching for Neapolitan brownies on a wire cooling rack.

Growing up in the 80s and 90s, in the midwest, there was ALWAYS a box of Neapolitan flavored ice cream in our freezer with the evenly divided brown, white and pink stripes in the box. Each of my individual family members would dig into whatever flavor they prefer most, often leaving one left over. Usually this meant the sad pink strawberry stripe would sit there, half eaten in the end, and my mom would refuse to buy a new box until we finished that one. I liked strawberry ice cream but I mostly liked it COMBINED with the other two flavors.

As a grown-up, the combination of any of the three is just delightful to me. Here on my blog I’ve shared my strawberry and chocolate checkerboard cookies, strawberry chocolate cheesecake, and I often serve my chocolate and vanilla swirled waffles with fresh strawberries. When I want a quick dessert, I’ll even make my chocolate strawberry grilled sandwiches. And I included a Neapolitan flavored shortcake in my cookbook Marbled, Swirled, and Layered (affiliate link). So I was delighted to see a Neapolitan cookie in my friend Sarah’s cookbook 100 Cookies (affiliate link), which went viral on Instagram. It was those cookies that inspired me to make these Neapolitan brownies!

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Fig, Blackberry and Goat Cheese Tart with Walnut Crust [Sponsored Post]

This quick, easy fig and blackberry tart has a honey goat cheese filling and a walnut shortbread crust, all of which can be made in an hour.

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A fig and blackberry tart on a marble surface, with fresh figs, blackberries and a honey dipper with some honey next to it.

This post was sponsored by California Grown. I was compensated for this post and developing this recipe. However, all opinions below are my own.

Fig season always comes and goes faster that I am ready for it. But when it arrives, I find myself gorging on fresh figs as much as possible. Some would say I’m a fig fiend! This is clearly evident by fig recipes I have here on my blog, including my fig focaccia, my fig financier, apple fig cobbler and fig and hazelnut scones. And though I will eat figs in my yogurt with homemade granola, in my salad, or all by themselves, I get super excited to make beautiful, luscious things out of them. My current obsession is this figs and blackberry tart with honey goat cheese and a walnut crust.

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Olive, Tomato, and Onion Hand Pies [Sponsored Post]

These savory and satisfying hand pies are packed with California grown green olives, tomatoes, roasted onions, fresh thyme and feta cheese.

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Olive, tomato and onion hand pies on a plate, surrounded by tomatoes and a bowl of more olives.

This post was sponsored by California Grown. I was compensated for this post and for developing the recipe. However, all opinions below are completely my own.

Summertime is here and I’m obsessed with all the Summer produce! I’m buying up pretty much everything from the bright and juicy berries to the luscious Summer stonefruit. But every time Summer comes around, the one thing I’m super excited about are tomatoes! The flavors of summertime tomatoes can’t be beat, and they are incredibly versatile in the kitchen. I use them as a topping for my tomato focaccia, my Summer zucchini pasta, as well as in my easy baked ziti dish. These tomatoes are paired with California green ripe olives another super versatile ingredient that I love and use all the time, like in my twice cooked eggplant and olive dish, my double olive sausage pizza and my Moroccan spiced roast chicken. In additional I added in roasted onions, feta and fresh thyme for the filling, to make a savory hand pie that is super satisfying as a snack or light lunch.

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