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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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Orange Olive Oil Cake
This Orange Olive Oil Cake recipe is sure to win over anyone who tries it! Filled with fresh orange flavor and a hint of exotic cardamom, this delightful cake is an example of both simplicity and sophistication. The richness from extra virgin olive oil gives this cake a moist texture and an incredibly tender crumb that will make it hard to stop at the first piece. The combination of ingredients elevates this cake to another level.
Spiced Applesauce
Whether you enjoy this delightful Spiced Applesauce as a delicious snack or a healthy dessert, you will be amazed at how quickly and easily this homemade applesauce recipe comes together. This perfectly spiced applesauce is made with juicy Honey Crisp apples, lemon juice, aromatic cinnamon sticks, star anise, cardamom, and a touch of pure maple syrup. The best part? No peeling required! And, this recipe is 100% plant based and gluten free.
Black Magic Mocha Cupcakes
These Black Magic Mocha Cupcakes satisfy both chocolate and coffee lovers alike. Black cocoa powder and dark roast coffee amp up the flavor to turn an ordinary chocolate cupcake into something truly magical. It’s then filled with a Kahlua Dark Chocolate Ganache, and topped with a deliciously creamy Espresso Buttercream Frosting. Mocha lovers will go wild about this super moist, mocha dessert! Using no food coloring in this recipe, the magic of black cacao powder gives these cupcakes a super dark crumb along with an intense chocolate flavor.
Persimmon Streusel Coffee Cake
Enjoy the delightful flavors of fall with this Persimmon Streusel Coffee Cake. This delicious coffee cake has a moist crumb with a layer of spiced persimmon purée and a scrumptious walnut streusel topping. Perfect for cozy mornings, an afternoon gathering with friends or family, or whenever you just feel like an extra special treat. Can be made gluten free!
Spiced Persimmon Cookies
Wonderfully spiced and packed with walnuts and chewy cranberries, these Spiced Persimmon Cookies are the perfect way to welcome the fall season. These pillowy cookies have a soft, cake-like texture and a delightful flavor. This is a wonderful fall recipe to make especially when persimmons are in season. Can be made vegan & dairy free!
Grilled Peaches with Mascarpone
Grilled Peaches with Mascarpone are the perfect summer dessert! Grilling enhances their natural sweetness and gives them a smoky, juicy, and lusciously smooth texture. Grilled peaches are a deliciously healthy dessert on their own, but they are amazing when paired with the creamy decadence of vanilla honey mascarpone. Finished with some roasted hazelnuts and a drizzle of honey, you are sure to enjoy every sumptuous bite. It can easily be made vegan & dairy free!
Chocolate Raspberry Bites
If you want a guilt-free dessert that is vegan and kid friendly, these delightful Chocolate Raspberry Bites are the perfect choice. This 5 ingredient recipe combines dark chocolate, fresh raspberries, and chia seeds. A touch of agave adds some sweetness to balance the tartness from the raspberries. This no bake recipe is secretly healthy and so tasty. This easy dessert is a quick and nutritious way to satisfy your sweet tooth.
Fresh Blueberry Cream Pie
Enjoy a slice of heaven with this luscious Fresh Blueberry Cream Pie! If you are craving a taste of summer, this fresh blueberry pie is the perfect treat to share with friends and family. Bursting with fresh, plump, juicy blueberries that provide a burst of sweetness and tang, a cream cheese filling that is so silky and smooth, and a deliciously nutty graham cracker crust, these three heavenly layers make this the perfect summer dessert to share with friends and family. This pie recipe can even be made gluten free!
Dragon Fruit Nice Cream
With a unique twist on traditional nice cream recipes, this Dragon Fruit Nice Cream is full of antioxidants and incredible flavor. This healthy non-dairy dessert gets its beautifully vibrant color from frozen dragon fruit (pink pitaya). Bananas provide some natural sweetness, along with a few optional ingredients that kick the flavor profile up a notch! This healthy 5 ingredient dessert recipe is so easy and takes only 5 minutes to make. It’s also vegan, dairy-free, and virtually guilt-free!
Amazing Key Lime Pie
Amazing does not even begin to describe this pie. I have taken a prize winning pie recipe and pimped it up to make it extraordinary! This Amazing Key Lime Pie is truly special. I used my distinctive graham cracker and walnut crust, filled it with a beautiful fresh lime custard, and topped it with a yummy vanilla whipped cream. This dessert is so uniquely delicious and surprisingly easy to make.
Chocolate Pecan Brioche Bread Pudding
This Chocolate Pecan Brioche Bread Pudding is a luxurious dessert that combines a creamy custard mixture with buttery French brioche, rich dark chocolate, and pecans, resulting in a soufflé-like texture and amazing flavor that will send you straight to dessert heaven! Served freshly baked with French vanilla ice cream for a really decadent treat.
Fresh Pineapple Sorbet (No Churn)
This no churn Fresh Pineapple Sorbet is an easy-to-make dessert that is full of natural sweetness and bursting with flavor. Now that the weather is warming up, this dessert recipe is a healthier way to treat yourself to something special on a hot day. With just three simple ingredients, this dairy-free frozen treat can easily be made ahead of time and ready to serve as a refreshing dessert, or palate cleanser between courses.
Biscoff Apple Walnut Cobbler
This unique Biscoff Apple Walnut Cobbler is much more than a simple apple cobbler. This amazing dessert is full of apples, plenty of toasted walnuts, brown sugar, and spices, then baked with a Biscoff and cookie cobbler crust. Served warm and topped with a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream and my Easy Biscoff Caramel Sauce, this decadent dessert hits all the right notes. Try the vegan, dairy-free, and gluten-free options, too!
Bananes Flambée (Bananas Foster)
Although this may not be the prettiest dessert, Bananes Flambée just might be one of the best you have ever tasted! This quintessential French dessert is also known as Bananas Foster, and is surprisingly easy to make. Butter and two types of sugar combine to create a rich caramel sauce. Very ripe bananas are then caramelized in the sauce and flambéed with brandy (or Cognac). This delectable hot caramel sauce is then poured over vanilla ice cream to create the most magical dessert. Be sure to enjoy it quickly before it melts!
Luscious Lemon Bars
These Luscious Lemon Bars combine a buttery vanilla shortbread crust with a tart and tangy Meyer lemon filling that will have your taste buds exploding with flavor. This must try recipe for lemon bars is sure to satisfy everyone's cravings! An amazing make ahead dessert recipe that can also be made gluten-free!
Almost Everything Cookies
Crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside, these Almost Everything Cookies have just about everything but the kitchen sink in them! A deliciously spiced oatmeal cookie batter is packed with three types of chocolate, toffee bits, tart cherries, and pecans. To give them the perfect balance of salty sweetness, they are topped with sea salt flakes hot from the oven. Can also be made gluten-free!
Holiday Persimmon Cookies
These Holiday Persimmon Cookies are pillowy soft and delightfully sweet. From the first bite, these seasonal cookies burst in your mouth with flavor! Full of fresh persimmon, wonderful spices, nuts, and cranberries, then finished with a simple orange glaze. A perfectly delicious holiday cookie!
Incredible Millionaire’s Shortbread
This Incredible Millionaire’s Shortbread is made up of three decadent layers; a buttery shortbread crust, a unique spiced caramel filling, and rich dark chocolate to top it all off! My version of millionaire’s bars is not your traditional recipe. I added a couple of secret ingredients to create the distinctive caramel flavor and intensify the richness of the chocolate topping. These bars are small in size, but incredibly rich in flavor!
Nutty Indoor S'mores
When the weather starts to cool down and you start missing summer campfires, my Nutty Indoor S’mores are the perfect fix. This quick and easy dessert has a special twist from traditional s’mores. Pillowy marshmallows combine with my Homemade Nutella (recipe coming soon!) and roasted hazelnuts to give them that extra bit of crunch & flavor. This 4 ingredient recipe takes less than 10 minutes to make, and can easily be made gluten-free and vegan!
Kumquat Cupcakes
These Kumquat Cupcakes have such a bright and fruity, burst-in-your-mouth flavor that hits you on the first bite! They are a little sweet and a little tart, and so very tasty. For the perfect complement, they are topped with a delectable cardamom cream cheese frosting that is seriously addicting. These yummy cupcakes have a unique citrusy flavor that tastes like spring! So if you want a change from the same old cupcake flavors, you must try this recipe.