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This is an amazing super-light traditional cake, soaked in a sweet milk mixture, topped with a vanilla bean whipped cream and cinnamon - cocoa dusting on top.

Hungry Monkey™ Bananas Foster Trifle  With a crème fraiche vanilla bean whipped cream

3 of our favorite dessert recipes that you can use to make the most delicious mother's day treats to show mom how much you love her. Some built from scratch and some built with our sweet treats from Chicago for ease!

Mandel Bread is an Eastern European Jewish cookie, not bread at all. It is twice-baked and is very much like its Italian cousin, Biscotti. My Grandma Bea used to make it and the chilly weather here in Chicago this past week reminded me of fall and winter days when we would sit in the house and make it together. Missing her so, I had to recreate that feeling; nostalgia was calling. The only thing is, her recipe was more like a “little bit of this and a little bit of that”! Luckily, my friend Cerise came to the rescue, sharing her grandmother’s recipe with me. I also found a wonderful recipe online and, with a few of my grandmother’s touches...

Enjoy this recipe for egg-free Oatmeal Lemon Crumble Bars