EXTRAS
Looking for a great syrup, topping, sauce, spread, salad dressing, condiment, bread or rolls? You've found the right place! Check our selection of extras to enhance any dish or drink!
(Breads & Rolls Coming Soon)
Sweet & Savory Sauces
Fresh Cranberry Sauce may be a holiday staple, but it’s delicious any time of year. Lightly spiced with warm cinnamon and aromatic cloves, and a hint of orange, this quick and easy recipe takes less than 30 minutes to prepare. This cranberry sauce is even better if made a few days ahead of time, which allows the flavors to fully develop. It’s the ultimate accompaniment to any holiday meal.
This Sicilian Pesto Sauce is a harmonious blend of aromatic basil, tangy grape tomatoes, toasted almonds, crushed red pepper, garlic, Parmigiano Reggiano cheese, and olive oil, plus a secret ingredient to give it a bright summery flavor. Made in less than 20 minutes, this easy sauce can be made ahead of time and tossed with your favorite pasta or roasted potatoes. This pesto sauce is also delicious when spread on sandwiches or on crostini as an appetizer. This easy summer recipe might become your go to pasta sauce this season!
Delicious as a topping for ice cream, brownie sundaes, crêpes, and all types of desserts, this Easy Biscoff Caramel Sauce makes everything better. With its delicious speculoos flavor and creamy texture, Biscoff cookie butter adds that extra special touch to a traditional caramel sauce recipe. This Easy Biscoff Caramel Sauce is also the perfect drizzle topping on my Biscoff Apple Walnut Cobbler !
If you love spicy sauces, then this Arrabbiata Sauce recipe is for you! Full of heat, this homemade tomato sauce adds a punch of flavor that is missing from a mild marinara sauce. Our favorite way to serve this is in a penne arrabbiata, but this easy sauce is great on any kind of pasta or beans, especially when finished with freshly grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese. And, this delicious pasta sauce is vegetarian, vegan, dairy-free, and gluten-free!
Our Raspberry Coulis is so delicious that it’s addicting! This raspberry sauce has a great balance of tart and sweet, and uses no refined sugar. It is so good you will want to pour it on everything! With only 4-ingredients, this super easy recipe that comes together in minutes. You can use fresh or frozen raspberries, which makes this a great sauce to make all year round. Our Raspberry Coulis elevates almost any dessert and is amazing when drizzled over ice cream, cheesecake, and even waffles. It’s even a key ingredient in our White Chocolate Raspberry Swirl Nice Cream. Try it with your holiday dessert. And, find out how to make it keto friendly!
Brown sugar and a hint of bourbon give our Bourbon Caramel Sauce a rich and decadent flavor. This is the perfect topping for our Pumpkin Spice Brioche Bread Pudding. Combined with our Candied Cinnamon Pecans, it turns plain vanilla ice cream into an impressive and very easy dessert for entertaining. This easy caramel sauce is so delicious, you will likely want to put it on everything! And, it can easily be made kid-friendly.
This Fresh Roasted Red Pepper Sauce is the perfect complement to fish, chicken, gnocchi, and pasta. Fresh red peppers are roasted (or grilled), then simmered with garlic, fresh herbs, wine, and a few other ingredients to bring out the amazing flavor in this sauce. It’s a great make ahead recipe, and gets better over time. Easy, delicious, and versatile, this recipe is vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, and dairy-free! We also offer a few variations of this recipe to make it richer, or more refined.
This quick, smoky salsa can easily be made extra mild or super spicy, and is delicious as a dip or a topping on tacos, tamales, enchiladas, and more. Crank up the heat and use it as a hot sauce for anything that needs some extra flavor! Our 3 step recipe is really tasty and so ridiculously quick and easy, that you will likely never want to buy salsa again!
This simple and quick sauce is not only beautiful, but absolutely delicious! It’s slightly tangy and really scrumptious and great with white fish, chicken, or even pasta.
Spreads, Salad Dressings & Condiments
This Lively Lemon Vinaigrette will brighten up any type of salad, but it’s the perfect complement to my Mediterranean Quinoa Salad or my Strawberry Feta Salad (recipes coming soon). This dressing is wonderfully tangy, using fresh lemon juice, garlic, herbs, honey, Dijon mustard, and extra virgin olive oil. This quick and easy salad dressing recipe can be made in only 5 minutes, and can easily be made vegan. For easy entertaining, make it ahead of time. This healthy and delicious salad dressing will liven your taste buds with its zesty lemon flavor!
This Brown Sugar Cinnamon Butter is absolutely heavenly, and pairs beautifully as a topping for my Perfect Pumpkin Pancakes. This variation of brown sugar butter also tastes amazing on buttermilk pancakes, waffles, and oatmeal. This easy 4 ingredient brown sugar butter recipe has just the right amount of cinnamon, and is whipped to creamy perfection! All it takes is 10 minutes to make this smooth & creamy spread, and you’ll have a specialty butter for breakfast or brunch that all your friends and family will remember! This recipe can also be made keto friendly.
My Homemade Nutella is rich and chocolaty, and quite addicting! Dry roasted hazelnuts are blended with semi-sweet chocolate, Dutch processed cocoa, and a few other ingredients to produce a silky smooth spread that is delicious on toast, Graham crackers, fresh strawberries, ice cream, or even by the spoonful! It’s also amazing on my Nutty Indoor S’mores. This dark chocolate hazelnut spread is incredibly yummy and much healthier than the original store bought version.
Wonderfully tangy and delicious, my Easy Greek Salad Dressing comes together in less than 5 minutes. A few Mediterranean ingredients are combined in a jar and shaken until emulsified. This salad dressing recipe is as simple as it gets! Perfect on my Greek Salad with Quinoa, this dressing also combines beautifully with almost any salad.
Our Healthier Lemon Mint Aioli has all the flavor but only half the fat of traditional aioli recipes. Made with fresh mint, lemon zest and juice, garlic, Greek yogurt, and yes…mayonnaise, this delicious spread will enhance any sandwich. With its Mediterranean flavor profile, it’s the perfect condiment for our Turkey Feta Burger. And, it’s terrific on beef burgers and grilled chicken sandwiches, too!
With only one red onion, you can make three jars of our small batch, sweet and tangy Quick Pickled Onions! This ridiculously simple 5-ingredient recipe is ready in as little as 1 hour, and produces the most glorious bright pink garnish for your tacos, burgers, sandwiches, tartines, bagels & lox, pulled pork, BBQ sandwiches, and more! It not only provides a beautiful pop of color, but it’s absolutely yummy as a garnish on our Avocado Toast with Smoked Salmon.
Our Citrus Vinaigrette has a beautifully bright flavor that will perk up any salad. What gives this salad dressing its uniqueness? We used fresh ingredients, as well as sweet and savory elements, to create this lovely vinaigrette. For a twist on the typical citrus salad dressing recipes, we used the juice and zest of clementines, lemon, fresh rosemary, coarse Dijon mustard, and a beautiful extra virgin olive oil. Simple ingredients, but when combined, they make the perfect vinaigrette to dress our Fresh Citrus Salad. This recipe is vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, dairy free, healthy, and super delicious!
This 2 ingredient recipe couldn’t be easier and it can be made as mild or spicy as you want! Our Chipotle Mayo is quick and easy and transforms plain mayonnaise into a slightly spicy and delicious spread for sliders, sandwiches, and even tacos!
Jams
This Honey Fig Jam is delicious on so many things! Spread it on some breakfast toast, or top a slice of warm quick bread. Need a quick holiday appetizer? Use it as a base for a sweet and savory crostini. This quick and easy small batch jam recipe uses no refined sugar or pectin, and requires no canning! Can easily be made vegan.
This Kumquat Marmalade is bright in both color and flavor! It’s tart and sweet, and can be used in a variety of ways. Our small batch freezer jam recipe requires no canning, and uses no pectin or refined sugar! For a treat, try topping some vanilla bean ice cream with slightly warmed kumquat marmalade. If you have never made jam, this is a great place to start!
This fresh, perfectly plum jam is quick and easy and done in less than one hour. It’s amazing on toast, waffles, yogurt, and even better served slightly warm as a topping on vanilla bean ice cream.
Syrups
Made with dried hibiscus flowers, sugar, and water, this easy recipe for Hibiscus Simple Syrup is a vibrant, floral syrup with a beautiful ruby-red color and slightly tart flavor. This homemade hibiscus syrup is perfect for enhancing lemonade (like my Hibiscus Lemonade recipe), iced tea, cocktails, mocktails, and sparkling drinks.
Delicately floral and beautifully balanced, this Easy Lavender Simple Syrup adds a subtle herbal sweetness without tipping into that dreaded soapy flavor. Made to highlight and not overpower its soft lavender notes, it’s the perfect way to elevate cocktails, mocktails, lattes, lemonades, and more. A small splash brings an elegant, aromatic touch to any drink, making even the simplest recipe feel extra special.
This Blueberry Simple Syrup is bursting with the sweetness of fresh, plump blueberries. This quick and easy 2 ingredient simple syrup is a 2-in-1 recipe! The byproduct of this tasty simple syrup is a delicious blueberry topping that is terrific on breakfast items, yogurt, ricotta toast, ice cream, and more. The blueberry syrup can be used on so many things, including pancakes, waffles, pastries, and dessert items, and it’s absolutely amazing in cocktails and drinks!
Pineapple Simple Syrup is a delicious way to enhance a variety of dessert and drink recipes. This 2 ingredient recipe is ridiculously simple and can be made in about 15 minutes. Fresh pineapple elevates the flavor of plain simple syrup. With its lovely tropical flavor, this unique simple syrup recipe is delightful in mocktails, cocktails like my Fresh Pineapple Jalapeño Margarita (recipe coming soon), and my Fresh Pineapple Sorbet recipe!
This sweet and slightly tart recipe for Cranberry Simple Syrup & Topping makes two recipes with one single effort! The cranberry topping is actually a byproduct of simple syrup, both of which can be used in a number of different food and drink recipes. Using only two ingredients, it’s hard to go wrong with this recipe. It’s so yummy, that you will be looking for even more ways to use it!
This Quick Honey Simple Syrup is delicious in cocktails, or drizzled on yogurt, pancakes, or waffles. Using only 2 ingredients, this easy recipe for simple syrup takes only minutes to prepare. It’s a great make ahead recipe when you are entertaining, and is especially wonderful in my Cider In The Rye Cocktail! This simple syrup dissolves easily in both cold or hot drinks, and adds a special flavor to lemonade or iced tea.
Our Ginger Simple Syrup has the perfect depth of ginger flavor, without being overly pungent. It’s delicious in hot tea, a wonderful sweetener for cocktails, and a refreshing change when drizzled on pancakes. Whether you like a light touch, or a major punch of ginger, this recipe is easily customizable. The bonus is you end up with candied or crystallized ginger for snacking!
Toppings & Frosting
This Blueberry Simple Syrup is bursting with the sweetness of fresh, plump blueberries. This quick and easy 2 ingredient simple syrup is a 2-in-1 recipe! The byproduct of this tasty simple syrup is a delicious blueberry topping that is terrific on breakfast items, yogurt, ricotta toast, ice cream, and more. The blueberry syrup can be used on so many things, including pancakes, waffles, pastries, and dessert items, and it’s absolutely amazing in cocktails and drinks!
Delicious as a topping for ice cream, brownie sundaes, crêpes, and all types of desserts, this Easy Biscoff Caramel Sauce makes everything better. With its delicious speculoos flavor and creamy texture, Biscoff cookie butter adds that extra special touch to a traditional caramel sauce recipe. This Easy Biscoff Caramel Sauce is also the perfect drizzle topping on my Biscoff Apple Walnut Cobbler !
So silky and creamy, our Cardamom Cream Cheese Frosting will become the crowning glory for your cupcakes or cakes. This frosting is subtly spiced with the warmth of ground cardamom, along with a touch of fresh citrus to brighten the flavor. Our recipe is so easy to whip up, and seriously addicting! After tasting it you’ll likely want to find an excuse to make it again for all your other bakes! Originally created as a frosting for our Kumquat Cupcakes, this recipe also complements the flavors of many other cakes.
Our Raspberry Coulis is so delicious that it’s addicting! This raspberry sauce has a great balance of tart and sweet, and uses no refined sugar. It is so good you will want to pour it on everything! With only 4-ingredients, this super easy recipe that comes together in minutes. You can use fresh or frozen raspberries, which makes this a great sauce to make all year round. Our Raspberry Coulis elevates almost any dessert and is amazing when drizzled over ice cream, cheesecake, and even waffles. It’s even a key ingredient in our White Chocolate Raspberry Swirl Nice Cream. Try it with your holiday dessert. And, find out how to make it keto friendly!
Crunchy and delicious, these Candied Cinnamon Pecans make the perfect sweet snack, or topping for your dessert. Also known as praline pecans, these Candied Cinnamon Pecans are not cloyingly sweet, but they are quite addicting! They add an extra special touch to ice cream, or as a topping for our Pumpkin Spice Brioche Bread Pudding. For a wow factor, combine with our Bourbon Caramel Sauce as a decadent finish to any dessert.
Brown sugar and a hint of bourbon give our Bourbon Caramel Sauce a rich and decadent flavor. This is the perfect topping for our Pumpkin Spice Brioche Bread Pudding. Combined with our Candied Cinnamon Pecans, it turns plain vanilla ice cream into an impressive and very easy dessert for entertaining. This easy caramel sauce is so delicious, you will likely want to put it on everything! And, it can easily be made kid-friendly.
This Kumquat Marmalade is bright in both color and flavor! It’s tart and sweet, and can be used in a variety of ways. Our small batch freezer jam recipe requires no canning, and uses no pectin or refined sugar! For a treat, try topping some vanilla bean ice cream with slightly warmed kumquat marmalade. If you have never made jam, this is a great place to start!
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!
These Zesty Honey Roasted Almonds are incredibly easy to make and absolutely addicting! They have a secret ingredient, along with just a hint of spiciness. With the perfect balance of sweet, salty, and spicy, they are a healthy and tasty snack. They can easily be made kid friendly, too!
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.