Desserts – Polly Castor

Apple Maple Crumble Bars (Recipe)
By Polly Castor on October 23, 2020
These are yummy, nutty, gooey and crumbly all at the same time. Plus they are grain-free, dairy free, and...
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Apple Turnover (Recipe)
By Polly Castor on April 4, 2020
Here is the recipe for my husband's marvelous apple turnovers! You'll be so glad you made them!
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Almond Crescent Cookies (Recipe)
By Polly Castor on November 2, 2019
The are delicious almondy nuggets of authentic heritage.
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Strawberry Crumble for Two (Recipe for Individual Ramekins)
By Polly Castor on February 18, 2019
This was a delicious rather guilt-free treat since it was made with sprouted flour and very little sugar, using...
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The Great British Baking Show (Review)
By Polly Castor on February 16, 2018
We are finding this show so fun to watch, we thought you might want to know about it too....
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Amazing Fruity Bread Pudding Recipe
By Polly Castor on November 20, 2017
This fruity bread pudding is moist and real, pungent and fruity, complex but humble, and an awesome flavor explosion...
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Vegan and Gluten-Free Breakfast Cookies
By Polly Castor on August 5, 2017
I've served these to my vegan and gluten–free friends and what I find is I prefer them even though...
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Almond Cake Recipe
By Polly Castor on February 1, 2017
This is an easy to make, simply straight-forward dessert, that has depth of flavor, but no bells and whistles....
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Recipe: Our Best Berry Cobbler
By Polly Castor on May 25, 2015
What better way to honor our veterans on Memorial Day than with the best berry cobbler? This is really delicious...
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Easter 2015
By Polly Castor on April 5, 2015
Happy Easter! This is a wonderful holiday full of hope of rebirth, gratitude for what Jesus did for us,...
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Recipe: Ginger, Carrot, Hazelnut Cake with Molasses Frosting
By Polly Castor on March 2, 2015
This is absolutely awesome! Truly, this cake is amazingly delicious, and is so moist that it remains terrific tasting...
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Burdick’s Hot Chocolate
By Polly Castor on November 22, 2014
I met friends who thought I should experience Burdick’s hot chocolate while in Boston. We took the subway to...
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I enjoy your strong, bold artwork– there is so much going on in them that my imagination takes off. I really appreciate your blog. It brings joy every day.

Love these colours and the strong contrasts Polly!

Thank you for passing along such wise words.

Thank you Polly for this article on supply! I cherish the healing thoughts therein very much, and they are very helpful.

WONDERFUL blog, Polly! Thank you for your spiritual calm, support for each of us, uninhibited creativity, and amazing paintings. I am just left in awe !

Love your blog’s colour and joyfulness and the inspiring leads, Polly. Easy to see why you are much loved. Thank you.

Polly, your reflection of Soul’s endless creativity is truly wonderful! Thank you for letting the divine shine through you so brightly!

Love all you do and express. You’re an amazing role model!!

I recently I recommended your blog to a friend saying, “She’s like a dear friend, she just doesn’t know me.” Thank you for all the delight you add to my days!

Keep up the good work. You are an inspiration! I love reading your blog with it’s many insights.

You are my favorite artist. I just have to say it. Your paintings make me so happy.

Everything on your site is so colorful, spiritual and alive!

Thank you so much for this wonderful insight! You put into words what I have been grappling with for a long time. This is just what I needed today.

Thank you Polly–you are always such a clear thinker and always willing to share your God-given gifts.

Beautifully written, Polly … captures my sentiments exactly.❤️

This is a fantastic article Polly…so much in it, I know I’ll have to re read it at least twice more!

You encourage me to grow with your everyday wisdom and your lovely contributions.

Love this– actually so “timely” for what I have been thinking about lately.

Way to go on your artistic journey. You show great courage, humility, and such support for everyone around you.

Your art is thrilling.

Your blogs are a delight.

You are such an inspiring person, Polly, and I love the variety of your activities you share with us all! Thank you so much.

Yes, lots of good flavor triggers in there. I printed it out and will try it. Thanks so much!

I feel such gratitude for the beautiful way in which you express God. Thanks for blessing my life and being such a shining light in the world!

What an inspiring and uplifting painting. Thanks for sharing your inspiration with the world!

You are an inspiration to me, and I’m sure to many others. With appreciation for all you do to magnify good!

This blog is simultaneously simple and profound– a perfect, balanced combination of seriousness and light.

Wow…you have made carrots sexy!

I love your coffee cake recipe, I have a book list from your blog, I love the photos, the poems, the paintings, the movie reviews, the humor, the honesty, the color.

Grace is a beautiful quality and you exude it in spades – thanks so much for all you do and are! You are a treasure!

I did your tomato tart a few days ago, and it was fabulous! I am vegetarian and look for meals I can make that have lots of flavor. Your tart was just perfect!

Thank you for sharing yourself and creativity in such a transparent way, it is very inspiring and humbling to me.

I am so totally impressed with your photography, poetry, and painting. Your talent is incredible!!!

Thank you Polly for your radiant joy and embrace of each of us, wrapping us in your color and beauty of Soul.

I love that you live such an active life, have so many interests, and share your insights with me. Your blog is like a conversation with a dear friend.

I am so happy to have found your site and to be able to enjoy your expression of Spirit! Love your poetry, your photos, your ideas, your …YOU! THANK you for sharing so abundantly!

Polly, I just love your spirit, innovativeness, receptivity to beauty and to God’s goodness expressed. Thank you for your blog.

The Brussels sprouts were an exceptionally BIG hit here…. could you direct me to more literature on spiritual healing?

Wow, you outdid yourself this month with your Bits and Clips. It was a wonderful mix of beauty, humor, and thoughtfulness.

Your blog is very interesting and insightful.

Thank you for the constant good thoughts and beautiful expressions of love and joy that you share on your blog.

Wow, super powerful and definitely what I needed to hear today.

Thanks, Polly, for listening so carefully and sharing so selflessly.

I get so happy when I see your paintings. I really do. They bring me such joy. I feel your heart when I see them.

This blog deeply resonates while being beautiful, delicious, inspiring, and fun. Not easy to do!

I made your fabulous Fish Tacos and they were BEYOND delicious!!

Your reading challenge has inspired me and given me permission to read again, as previously I had just fitted reading round everything else. Now it is a legitimate activity in my life and I am enjoying it immensely!

I am a silent regular reader of your daily blog, and I’m finally in touch to tell you how much I like it. I love it!

What a fine piece! You certainly are a shining example….[it] was uplifting and instructive.

Thank you for all the inspiration you share so generously. I am deeply grateful!

This is absolutely magnificent. Bless your precious and beautiful soul for sharing this.

Thank you for your ultra positive, upbeat, cheering and cheerful expressions in so many forms. What great seeds to sow in world thought!

Love your blog. Today’s was dynamite, and very helpful for understanding our role as individuals at this time.

Hi Polly, loved this poem. It radiates hope and feeling of calmness. I am glad I came across these beautiful words. Keep posting similar reads and spreading positivity.

You are terrific and amazing. In many outstanding ways.

You are so incredibly sweet, gracious, kind, thoughtful, creative, generous, joyful, witty, courageous, tender, persistent, compassionate, brilliant, articulate, ad infinitum!

The phrase ‘divine choreography’ is resonating with me. Bless you for sharing your inspiration with us all.

Quite unforgettable. You truly have a way with words: warm; strong; inviting; enlightening; so substantive, and more.

Beautiful photos. It is uplifting and energizing to see such bright, cheerful, healthy and fresh images. Thanks, I needed that!

Your site is bolstering my creative thoughts. I need to put them into action.

Thank you so much for your fantastic, soulful images– your photos really capture the love, joy, camaraderie, power, and intensity of the present moment.

Your blog is full of the wonderful, multilayered colors and textures that you play with, and share so unselfishly with the world.

I truly love and am inspired by your blog, including capturing the beauty of life in the moment, teaching by example, taking time with children, and spirituality.

I so enjoyed your trip blog. The outstanding photos and the amazing narratives made me feel I was on vacation for a few minutes each day.

I did your 52 books challenge, and loved the structure that it provided to my selections. Doing it again this year too!

A powerful message. Thank you for getting it out there.

LOVE it. Made me smile while I was reading it.

You have a great eye for beauty Polly. I love your blog.

I feel the joy and love of the color and thought in all your work! You are letting your light shine.

I salute you! And I sure do thank you for inspiring me to greater efforts along all lines of life!

Excellent post, dear Polly! Thanks!! There is lots that I relate to in your comments!

You show us how God’s love shines in all things. You are a blessing!

Your eyes are keen and your photographs dynamic.

I never before found computers this beautiful….

I always appreciate your reviews. Our fave film in 2019 was The Green Book – which we watched following your recommendation.

What a beautiful spirit you have, shining right through your source.

Oh yum, Polly… These gorgeous photos made my mouth water and my eyes pop!

Thank you for using this platform to share these references for listening & learning. Now the work required to make a lasting change is up to each of us! ❤️

Just beautiful, Polly. So honest and uplifting. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, and the helpful ones of others.

I want to express my gratitude to you for such a well thought out essay. I found it quite enriching and resonate with those true answers.

Your posts are treasure troves of your beautiful and giving heart.

I have just started this book and am really loving it! Thank you so much for recommending it.

Sounds delicious and simple! Two of my favorite adjectives!

Love your blog. Today’s is dynamite and very helpful to viewing our role as individuals at this time.

Every day I look forward to your blog. It’s encouraging me to find ways to express what God reveals in me.

Thank you sincerely for your joyful out-pouring of love, light, color, comforting, inspiring words…

Thank you for the joy you share. I look forward to reading your posts!

Thanks for sharing from the seat of your soul with generosity and openness.

When I open my email in the morning I read all the have-to emails first; I save yours to read as dessert. Thanks, Polly!

This is a beautiful summary and reminder of how we can both individually and collectively dissolve the powerless, baseless lies with Truth. Thank you, Polly!!

WOW! Polly! Some truly marvelous work there!!!

It is always refreshing to see the loves, joys, challenges, and triumphs that you share on your blog.

Thank you for your transparency of love, your generous sharing of what you are pondering and doing.

Putting the art of poetry, photography and painting into your hands is God’s gift to us who get to read it and see it. Thanks.

Polly, I am absolutely amazed. My mouth was watering! I’ll be thinking about it all night…and tomorrow we will break out the paints!

Thank you Polly!! This has needed to be said for a while!

I am simply amazed at the wealth of beauty, soul, and experience. Love it. Love you! Thank You for sharing your innermost so openly.

I look forward to your messages each day, like a delightful gift to unwrap.

I have tremendous admiration for your strength, your depth, your compassion, your passion and your love. You are a woman deeply filled to the brim…

This is absolutely beautiful and so incredibly helpful and inspiring! Thank you so much! ❤️

I have so enjoyed your recent posts– about your garden, your reflections about parenting, your vibrant artwork– so many wonderful expressions of Spirit.

Polly, your wonderful blog is doing more than its bit in this dreadful time. Thanks, and keep on keeping on!

Lovely Polly! You are an inspiration! I am so happy to have your blog in my life!

Loved your plein air painting, the pictures of the garden plenty — oh wow. Love opening your blog each day — it is a treat that I save sometimes.

AUDACIOUSLY GORGEOUS!!!!! (:

You are such a gem Polly- it is an incredible blessing to daily read your blog!

I loved this post! It gave me much to think about. Thank you for being such a beautiful and prolific source of inspiration. You are a wonder! I’m a fan!

I’m grateful for you opening my eyes to the wonders that surround us.

I just adore all of your wonderful posts and everything that you share so generously. ????? You have a beautiful sense of soul that you share – it blesses me and so many!

I wanted you to know that I found the time I spent on your blog to be relaxing, refreshing, inspiring, and totally enjoyable.

Very helpful in these seemingly uncertain times. I found a couple of specific ideas expressed here that apply to a specific situation in my life. Thank you!

Thank you for sharing such a personal, and at the same time, universal, love of beauty.

I just want to say that I have really been enjoying your blog! It gives me hope for the world…

I for one want to thank you so much for writing this blog. I started about a year ago and look forward to reading it every day. I feel like an armchair adventurer…

Such a complete radiance of Soul you are demonstrating. I find it very inspiring!

Your abstracts are interesting and you have a unique style that is all your own. Original, demonstrating individuality and confidence! I see joy and love expressed.

These photos are so wonderful, it really warms the heart.

I have to tell you that your spiritual to-do list was the springboard for a great talk with my older daughter. We are going to check on each other, and progress.

You are doing so wonderfully at praising God with your talents.

You are … just plain wonderful, Polly! Your blog is bursting with poetry, art, writings, love of God, family, friends, all things great and wonderful and good!

Absolutely stunning, Polly. I love the infinite range of ideas, expression, and media in this BIG blog of yours.

What an incredible blessing and inspiration you are. Thank you so much for your beautiful heart!

Magnificent poem. How blest you are to be a poet, photographer, artist, metaphysician, all wrapped up into One.

Your photos are so vivid and expressive and inspiring and artistic and alive!

My mother adores your blog and speaks to me often about what recent nugget you shared which she thought was wonderful!

Polly this is absolutely exquisite and so inspiring. I will refer to it often.

This blog is upbeat, progressive, sincere, colorful, metaphoric, and exploratory. Such a rich feast!

Your blog captures a life well lived, constantly imparting good– truth, health and happiness– including beauty, harmony, art, science to the world.

Your blog is uplifting and enlightening, and seems to speak to me just when I need it most.

Thank you for bringing your hydrangeas into my home via the internet. Other flowers are lovely too, but hydrangeas are SPECIAL.

Your work is always spirited and inspirational.

Thank you for your burst of sunshine reflected in your positivity this morning… I look forward to your blogs.

Yes, healing does happen when we deeply and humbly pray. Thanks for keeping that idea alive.

Glorious! Thank you for tending these lovely flowers together, and for posting on your blog, Polly.

Polly, you are a whiz at living life the way it’s meant to be. I’m fascinated by all you do!

You inspire goodness, wholeness, contentedness and joy.

Polly Castor

Fostering a new renaissance through creativity, authenticity, spirituality, and art

Posts tagged with ‘Desserts’

Apple Maple Crumble Bars (Recipe)

Apple Turnover (Recipe)

Almond Crescent Cookies (Recipe)

Strawberry Crumble for Two (Recipe for Individual Ramekins)

The Great British Baking Show (Review)

Amazing Fruity Bread Pudding Recipe

Vegan and Gluten-Free Breakfast Cookies

Almond Cake Recipe

Recipe: Our Best Berry Cobbler

Easter 2015

Recipe: Ginger, Carrot, Hazelnut Cake with Molasses Frosting

Burdick’s Hot Chocolate

Favorite Books

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