With spicy sausage, tender noodles, and a melty cheese topping, this Lasagna Soup recipe has all your favorite Italian ingredients simmered together in one pot.

A steaming hot bowl of Lasagna Soup makes everybody happy at dinnertime.

Soup season is in full swing and I couldn’t be more excited. Since we moved to Ohio, I’ve been looking forward to meals full of all my favorite Soups and Stews as the temperatures drop.

I already have a feeling we’ll be eating many more bowls of this tasty soup on cold nights all winter long!

Easy Lasagna Soup

Lasagna soup is everything you love about a classic Italian lasagna simmered in soup form. My family loves lasagna with lots of meat in it, so I used both hot sausage and ground beef in this soup.

After browning the meat, I added onions, garlic, and tomatoes along with Italian Seasoning. After simmering everything in chicken broth and adding curly mafalda noodles, the soup finishes with the best ingredient of all: lots of cheese.

For the cheese topping, I use a blend of three different kinds of Italian cheeses. The mix of Ricotta, Parmesan, and Mozzarella cheese adds rich, creamy flavors to this soup.

A big scoop of the cheese topping on my bowl of soup made me very happy indeed. Every spoonful of soup was full of tangy tomato, hot sausage, perfectly cooked noodles, and gooey cheese.

Everyone in my family loves this Lasagna Soup. Most of us went back for a second bowl!

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Apple Pecan Brie Mini Appetizers [+Video]

This apple pecan brie cheese appetizer takes the classic combination of flavors to a sweet new level. So easy to make and everyone will love them.

When you throw out words like “brie”, “roasted apples”, and “puff pastry”, you automatically start to think that this is mega fancy. Secretly, it’s so dang easy, which makes it perfect for holiday parties!

The melty brie fills the crunchy puff pastry with savory creaminess while the apple adds sweetness. It’s the perfect combination of flavors and textures!

What is Brie?

Brie is a soft, buttery and creamy cheese that originated in France. It is off-white in color and made from cow’s milk. It is rich, fruity and earthy in flavor.

How to Make Brie Appetizers Video

Ingredients for Baked Brie Bites

Most of the ingredients for this baked brie appetizer are items that you buy ahead of time and just assemble. So easy! Here is everything you will need:

• Apple: Honeycrisp, Envy, Braeburn or any apple you love works great
• Olive Oil: helps roast the apples
• Salt: enhances the apple flavor
• Puff Pastry: just buy it pre-made at the store
• Brie: grab is in your deli section, you can buy a large wheel of brie or small wheels because they will get cubed
  • You can leave the rind on or remove it.
• Fig Jam: buy a small jar, I love Trader Joe’s, but any brand works great
  • If you can’t find fig jam, apricot would be a good substitute.
• Egg and Water: makes an egg wash to help the puff pastry get crispy and golden
• Cinnamon Pecans: you can make your own or buy them already made at the store
• Rosemary: fresh is preferred and chop it up little

The details for all the ingredients can be found in the recipe card at the end of this post.

Where Do I Find Brie Cheese?

You will want to head to the deli section to find brie. It will usually be sitting out in the cheese display area, near the feta and other cheeses.

Where Do I Find Puff Pastry?

Puff pastry is found in the freezer section of the grocery store near the pie crusts. The most common brand that I see is Pepperidge Farm.

How to Make Apple

Crunchy toasted Brioche topped with jam and almonds creates an irresistible pastry called Bostock.

As simple as it sounds (and is to make) once you’ve tasted it, I’m willing to bet that you’ll be telling everyone about it. I’ll go ahead and call this the Ultimate French Toast in the sense that it puts French toast to shame.

Bostock may not sound like the fanciest pastry or bakery treat, but I’m telling you now that this is absolutely positively irresistible.

I tried Bostock for the first time while visiting my friend Rebecca in Western New York several years ago.

There is an amazing bakery called Elm Street Bakery in East Aurora that we visited a couple of times, and their list of tempting treats goes on for days. When I spied the Bostock, I had to try it.

Bostock

Bostock is made with a sweet bread cut into slices and spread with a thin fruit glaze and topped with an almond spread. A sprinkling of sliced almonds goes on top and then it is baked until crispy.

Brioche is the most common bread used for making Bostock, but challah works too and can often be easier to find.

The taste reminds me of Italian Pine Nut Cookies (aka Pignoli Cookies) or these Italian Almond Cookies, which makes sense, as those cookies are made with almond paste as the main ingredient.

I am sitting here struggling for words because I love this so much. I compare it to French Toast, except that it is so much simpler and tastes better by a mile.

I made this recipe twice, in the week after I returned home, and I have been making Bostock on repeat ever since.

As we sat in the bakery, Rebecca and I chatted about how to recreate the Bostock at home. The bread is topped with a toasted frangipane.

All you need to make frangipane is almond meal, sugar, butter, and an egg. It makes a heavenly topping for this Bostock and it literally takes just a few minutes.

While I’m sharing traditional Bostock here in all its glorious almond deliciousness, Rebecca dreamed up a Nutella Raspberry Bostock and shared hers as well.

I’m thinking there are endless flavor combinations possible and we are duty bound to try them all, right?

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Cream Cheese Frosted Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

Satisfy your fall cravings with these delicious frosted pumpkin chocolate chip cookies with luscious cream cheese frosting. Made with pumpkin puree and warm spices, these cookies are the perfect treat for the season.

There is nothing I love more than fall colors, feelings and food. There’s something that truly starts to stir inside of me as the leaves begin to fall. My sister once told me that she loves fall but doesn’t love the famous flavors of fall, so I set off to find something that she would love.

A friend many years ago delivered these frosted pumpkin cookies to our house and I’m pretty sure that the soft and chocolatey cookies with that dreamy, creamy frosting that your teeth completely sink into will sell her forever!

If you love our classic pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, then you will love this recipe with an added layer of creamy rich flavor in the cream cheese frosting! Pumpkin desserts and cream cheese frosting are a match made in heaven!

Ingredients for Pumpkin Chocolate Chips Cookies

If you have a can of pumpkin puree, then chances are you have the rest of the ingredients in your pantry for these pumpkin spice cookies! Here is everything you will need:

• Wet Ingredients: Vegetable Oil, Granulated Sugar, Light Brown Sugar, Egg, Pumpkin Puree and Vanilla Extract
• Dry Ingredients: All-Purpose Flour, Baking Powder, Baking Soda, Salt and Pumpkin Pie Spice, see note
• Mini Chocolate Chips: I like to use the mini chocolate chips so that they stay evenly distributed in the cookie dough, but you can use full size chocolate chips too.

Ingredients for Cream Cheese Frosting

• Butter: unsalted and softened to room temperature
• Cream Cheese: full fat and softened to room temperature
• Vanilla Extract: adds flavor
• Powdered Sugar: the base of the frosting and all the sweetness
• Salt: enhances all the flavors

Keep scrolling to the end of the post for all the measurements and information you need.

How to Make Frosted Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

These cookies are thick and pillowy, dotted with chocolate chips, and everything you want in a fall cookie. If you’re looking for a more chewy cookies, try our chewy pumpkin cookies, because this recipe is more of a cakey cookie. Here are the steps for making them:

1. Prep: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and line a couple of baking sheets with parchment paper or silpats.
2. Beat: Add the oil and sugar to a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment and beat on high speed for 2 minutes.
3. Mix: Add the egg and beat to combine. Decrease the mixer spe

Secret Ingredient Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Satisfy your sweet tooth with this delicious and easy chocolate chip cookie recipe. Perfect for any occasion, these cookies are sure to be a hit with everyone! And you won’t believe what the secret ingredient is!

My darling friend Kim had a nanny helping her out one day and my daughter along with hers made cookies with this sweet nanny. Thankfully, I was the happy recipient of a delicious treat! One secret totally makes these cookies irresistible!!

Do you have a single go-to chocolate chip cookie recipe, or do you have different chocolate chip cookie recipes for different occasions? Sometimes I want thick gourmet chocolate chip cookies, so I go with our Levain bakery copycat recipe. Other times I want that tender, perfectly chewy chocolate chip cookie, so I go with our favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe. If I have vanilla pudding on hand, I’ll make our chocolate chip pudding cookies. It just depends!

Well, this CCC recipe is super quick and easy, the the surprise ingredient is something you’ll have on hand already, but you’ve probably never thought to add it to a chocolate chip cookie before.

Ingredients for the Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

Here is the list of ingredients you will need to make these delicious cookies including the surprising secret ingredient:

• Light Brown Sugar: adds richness and sweetness
• Granulated White Sugar: adds sweetness
• Butter: adds fat and rich flavor, shortening or a combination of butter and shortening can also be used
• Eggs: gives the cookies structure
• Flour: just regular all-purpose flour works great
• Baking Soda: gives the cookies their rise and fluffiness
• Salt: enhances all the other flavors
• Cinnamon: The secret ingredient!
• Cinnamon Sweet Thins: Just to add some more cinnamon flavor and a little texture! You can use cinnamon graham crackers or our personal favorite Read more