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Cream Cheese Puff Pastries (Video)

April 3, 2020 By Valya of Valya's Taste of Home Leave a Comment

These Cream Cheese Puff Pastries are layers upon layers of crisp, flaky, buttery pastry, topped with delicious vanilla cream cheese filling and sprinkled with sugary crumb goodness. They don’t only look elegant and gentle but are amazingly beautiful. The tasty individual desserts may be served on any occasion and will fit right in. I’ve made…

Kartoshka Chocolate Cake Truffles (Potato Pirozhnoye)

March 20, 2020 By Valya of Valya's Taste of Home 16 Comments

You won’t find these growing in the dirt! These Kartoshka Chocolate Cake Truffles (Potato Pirozhnoye) are not of the naturally grown truffles, but they are still some wonderfully tasty little nuggets. Who remembers chocolate salami? It’s one of those desserts where the name doesn’t directly relate to the actual dessert but makes sense with an explanation!…

Super Soft Cinnamon Rolls Recipe

February 7, 2020 By Valya of Valya's Taste of Home 38 Comments

These sweet buns are incredibly fluffy, moist, and absolutely irresistible. We’ve been making them for many years now and it’s proven to be a no-fail go-to recipe that is loved by everyone. Hands down the best Super Soft Cinnamon Rolls Recipe out there! Originally, this recipe was posted five years ago by my second oldest…

The Best Apple Pie Recipe

November 17, 2017 By Valya of Valya's Taste of Home 6 Comments

Apple pie is the signature dessert of America and a favorite on the Thanksgiving table. Yes, on mine as well. 😉 How can you not include this classic treat? As you can imagine, there must be thousands of recipes out there. This one, in my opinion, is the best and the only recipe you’ll need….

Sweet Swirl Apple Buns

October 6, 2017 By Valya of Valya's Taste of Home 7 Comments

Ah, the sweet flavors of fall! These super soft, swirled buns with apple stuffing are wonderful comfort fall treat. The juicy grated apples make them incredibly moist, delicious, and irresistible! They look so beautiful and glossy after being brushed with the egg glaze and sprinkled with organic raw sugar. You just wanna eat them raw, like…

Berry Meringue Baskets Recipe

May 12, 2017 By Valya of Valya's Taste of Home 10 Comments

I don’t know about your household, but in mine, there are not a lot of things that make it on everyone’s favorite list. Even dessert. My Meringue Fruit Baskets is such a dessert. It’s like cotton candy. I know this may not help the matter, but I thought, why not try a new twist with…

Rugelach – Rogaliki

February 5, 2016 By Valya of Valya's Taste of Home 11 Comments

Here is another delicious treat for you. We love Rugelach – Rogaliki very much, I’m sure you will as well. They are very soft, flaky, drenched in powdered sugar cookie sweetness. They have the look of a croissant but the texture is different and more fulfilling. You can fill Rogaliki with any jam preserve or…

Cream Puffs – Éclairs

January 21, 2016 By Valya of Valya's Taste of Home 16 Comments

I absolutely love éclairs. For several reasons. They are one of my favorite pastries to bake and assemble. There are many possible outcomes you may create. You can make them as puffs, round, filled with cream and sprinkled with confectioner’s sugar or shape them long, filled with cream and topped with icing or chocolate ganache….