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Welcome to Prep My Recipe!
I am a multicultural Southern California native with a lifelong passion for all cuisines. A retired corporate executive, now loving life as a recipe developer and food blogger.
Micheline
Prep My Recipe is a food blog featuring California-style recipes, step-by-step instructions for how to make delicious food and drinks, printable recipe cards, helpful recipe videos and tips & tricks, as well as recommended products for all budgets. Blog pages also spotlight “Pimp My Recipe” ideas for how to customize each recipe for a variety of dietary preferences. Please go to the Recipes menu at the top of this website to browse all categories and access all recipes.
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Dark Chocolate Ganache Tart
Our impressive Dark Chocolate Ganache Tart is definitely for chocolate lovers, and is surprisingly easy to make! Made with 72% dark chocolate and a walnut and speculoos (Biscoff) cookie crust, this decadent dessert is so deliciously rich and creamy that one tart can easily serve between 12 to 16 guests. This elegant make ahead dessert is perfect for entertaining! To complement the flavor and texture of this delectable dessert, serve with some homemade vanilla whipped cream!
Classic Tiramisu
Made with traditional ingredients, our Classic Tiramisu recipe is extra flavorful, and is light and fluffy as a cloud! Finished with a generous dusting of unsweetened cocoa powder, this appropriately named coffee infused “pick me up” dessert has the perfect balance of sweetness, flavor, and texture to make it worthy for any special occasion. Our Classic Tiramisu makes a festive dessert for your holiday celebration. Don’t be surprised if your guests ask for the recipe!
White Chocolate Raspberry Swirl Nice Cream
This White Chocolate Raspberry Swirl Nice Cream has a silky soft serve texture and a lovely flavor that will make you want more (and without the guilt). This quick and easy recipe elevates the standard nice cream by amping up the flavors with a few special ingredients. White chocolate cocoa powder, vanilla, and our easy Raspberry Coulis, transform this healthy-ish dessert into a special and elegant treat. To make it really decadent, top it with fresh raspberries and a few shavings of white chocolate.
Heavenly Layer Bars
We have taken the traditional cloyingly sweet 7 layer bars recipe and pimped it up to balance the flavors and sweetness in this popular dessert. Our Heavenly Layer Bars have outstanding texture and complex flavor, thanks to the additions of extra dark chocolate, white chocolate, unsweetened sliced coconut, and a cinnamon walnut crust. Finished with a light sprinkle of Himalayan pink salt, this salty sweet dessert bar hits all the right notes. These tasty dessert bars are incredibly decadent and so easy to make, which makes this a great recipe to bake with your kids!
Pumpkin Spice Brioche Bread Pudding
Fluffy, moist, and full of warm spices, our Pumpkin Spice Brioche Bread Pudding is everything a bread pudding should be. This delicious dessert has a soufflé-like texture and is drizzled with our Bourbon Caramel Sauce and topped with our homemade Candied Cinnamon Pecans. These extras bring this dessert to a whole new level! Served warm from the oven this dessert pairs really well with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, which melts alongside the pudding to create an instant, créme anglaise sauce. This is the perfect dessert to welcome the Fall season.
Dragon Fruit Chia Pudding
Dragon fruit has an insanely beautiful and vibrant color that makes everything you add it to just gorgeous! This Dragon Fruit Chia Pudding is no exception. Our recipe transforms boring chia seed pudding into a tasty and healthy treat that is visually appealing! To give this non-dairy dessert extra flavor, we combined coconut milk, vanilla, pure maple syrup, and cinnamon. If you really want to pimp it up, top it with toasted coconut and even blueberries...so yummy! This chia pudding makes a great snack, or a nutritious meal prep breakfast, too.
Biscoff White Chocolate Hearts
White chocolate meets Biscoff cookie butter, to make this delectably sweet and creamy chocolate treat. If you like the flavor of speculoos cookies, then you will love these little dessert bites. Incredibly simple to make, these Biscoff White Chocolate Hearts take only a few minutes to make, with just 4 ingredients. Drizzled with a little white chocolate, these little chocolates will most definitely satisfy your sweet craving. Perfect for Valentine’s Day, or anytime of year!
Toffee Caramel Ice Cream Pie
Perfect for summer weather, our Toffee Caramel Ice Cream Pie is ridiculously easy and absolutely yummy! This decadent dessert tastes sinful, but doesn’t leave you weighed down like most ice cream mud pies. A delicious light caramel swirl ice cream is smoothed into our quick and easy vanilla wafer crust. It’s topped with toffee bits, and drizzled with warmed caramel sauce just before serving. It is so delicious year round!
Lemon Tart (Tarte au Citron)
This is a classic French lemon tart recipe (Tarte au Citron) that is surprisingly easy to make and incredibly delicious. Finished with a dusting of powdered sugar, this beautiful lemon tart is elegant in its simplicity, and even more impressive when served with a raspberry coulis. This tart recipe uses our easy Shortcrust Pastry recipe, which is then filled with a very tart lemon custard filling. You know this is an authentic French lemon tart when you get that pucker on your first bite!
Shortcrust Pastry (Pâte Brisée)
This absolutely perfect Shortcrust Pastry recipe makes a lovely buttery base for any tart, pie, or quiche filling. It’s a bit more delicate than your typical pie crust, so it adds a tender, flaky, shortbread-like taste and texture to any dessert or quiche. Try this traditional French pastry with our Lemon Tart (Tarte au Citron) recipe for the perfect combination of flavors and textures!
Triple Berry Crisp
Wild blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries are tossed with vanilla and cinnamon, smothered with a delicious, crispy pecan streusel and oats topping, and then baked to perfection. When served warm with a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream, the result is a succulent bite of warm berries and sweet, crispy cookie-like topping. After just one bite, you’ll swear you’ve gone to fruit crisp heaven! This simple dessert comes together in minutes, and is great for entertaining.
Vegan Oat Bars
Oats, chunky almond butter, dark chocolate, and tart dried cherries, make these Vegan Oat Bars a tasty and healthy treat. Packed with almond pulp and other wholesome ingredients, these dessert-like energy bars will curb your hunger for hours. Finished with a drizzle of chocolate, it’s hard to believe that these yummy oat bars are dairy free, gluten free, and vegan!
Cherry Marzipan Galette
This delightful Cherry Marzipan Galette is a simple, yet elegant dessert. What’s not to love about pairing almonds and cherries in a rustic tart?! We combined sweet and tart cherries along with marzipan, to give this lovely little galette a beautiful balance of flavors. The result, when baked in a buttery homemade crust, is a warm and luscious bite of cherries with just a hint of marzipan. Top with vanilla bean ice cream or homemade whipped cream, to complete this heavenly dessert.
Chai Spice Bundt Cake
This Chai Spice Cake is subtly spiced and so moist and delicious. The flavors of chai tea infuse this delectably tender cake, to result in a lovely Bundt cake that tastes wonderful on its own, and simply amazing when drizzled with my Quick Orange Glaze. It is perfect with a cup of tea or coffee, but it’s so good that it really can be enjoyed anytime!
Glazed Orange Cranberry Bread
Quick bread has never been so fresh and delicious! The first bite is like an explosion of flavor. My Glazed Orange Cranberry Bread tastes like a fresh orange and gets even better when the tart pop of a fresh cranberry bursts in your mouth. This recipe is full of natural ingredients (and a secret ingredient), and topped with a beautiful orange glaze that leaves you wanting more of this zesty and heavenly bread.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Delights
So rich and chocolatey, and exploding with peanut butter flavor, these Chocolate Peanut Butter Delights are ridiculously simple to make and amazingly delicious! All it takes is 10 minutes and 4 ingredients to make these easy and lovely sweet treats. These lovely chocolate treats are vegetarian, vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free, keto, and above all, they are divine!!
Quick Orange Glaze
This Quick Orange Glaze is wonderful on everything from quick bread, spice cake, and sweet loaf, to pastries. With all natural ingredients, this 3-ingredient glaze makes everything it’s drizzled on taste like you are biting into a fresh orange!
Intensely Chocolate Flourless Cookies
If you are looking for a dessert to win someone’s heart, you must try our super easy recipe for Intensely Chocolate Flourless Cookies. They are so moist and fluffy, you won’t believe they are flourless!
Decadent Chocolate Cream Pie
This rich and decadent dessert is not your standard chocolate cream pie. This no bake pie is super easy and will satisfy the most discriminating chocolate critic.
Pretty Plum Galette
A Pretty Plum Galette always makes a big impression. This deceivingly easy to make rustic tart has lovely warm, spiced flavors that pair beautifully with ripe plums.