Desserts

Memorial Day Dessert Recipes from Pippin Hill Chef Victoria Cosner

Summer holidays like Memorial Day and July 4th spark memories for Victoria Cosner, executive chef at Pippin Hill Farm & Vineyards—specifically, the smell of wafting smoke in the summer heat transporting her back to childhood cookouts. “The grill is a place for everyone to gather outside with friends and family, play around with a little […]

by Gabriela de Camargo Gonçalves

Holiday Recipes: Glühwein and Æbleskiver in Virginia

If you asked me about magical Christmases, one place comes to mind: Copenhagen, where I studied abroad. For four months, I lived like a Dane, savoring Nordic art, cuisine, and culture. Even the dark skies and bitter cold enchanted me, a native Michigander. Christmas time there meant streets strung with lights, hygge on every corner, […]

by Hope Cartwright

Heirloom Recipes with Virginia Living

The holidays bring out the best recipes—and the most closely guarded family secrets. AtVirginia Living, our staff finally share the dishes that disappear fastest from their holiday tables—from savory sides that spark dust-ups over seconds to desserts that have cousins clamoring for the recipes. You won’t find these in glossy cookbooks or trending on social […]

by Gabriela de Camargo Gonçalves

Apple Cider Donuts Recipe: Your New Favorite Fall Treat

Makes 12 donuts and holes Ingredients 2½ cups apple cider 6 tablespoons unsalted butter 3 ½ cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting 3 teaspoons ground cinnamon, divided 2 or 4 teaspoons baking powder (see Recipe Instructions) 1 teaspoon kosher salt ½ teaspoon baking soda ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg, preferably freshly grated ½ cup packed […]

by Madeline Mayhood

Sweet and Savory Fig Recipes to Please Every Palette

Backyard Fig Cake with American Buttercream Frosting When they’re in season, figs can turn just about any dish into a showstopper. This Backyard Fig Cake is a late summer star. Cake ½ cup (114 grams) butter at room temperature ¾ cup (50 grams) granulated sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 2 large eggs at room temperature […]

by Madeline Mayhood

Virginia-Made Recipes for Summer Fruit

Brown Turkey Fig Jam Recipe by Stephanie Ganz Makes 3 cups This pectin-free fig jam, scented with vanilla and orange zest, is my favorite way to make use of a glut of figs. Packed in 4-ounce Ball jars with a little ribbon, the chunky jam makes a sweet gift. 12 pounds brown turkey figs, washed, […]

by Stephanie Ganz

Virginia’s Best Small-Batch Ice Cream Shops

Move over, chocolate and strawberry. It’s not that you’re boring, it’s just that Virginia’s small batch scoopers are churning out so many flavors that it makes plain old vanilla seem, well, vanilla. In the Old Dominion, we found that Scoop in Richmond’s Fan District is out of this world, with flavor bombs like Tahini & […]

by Madeline Mayhood

Crazy Mason Takes the Cake—or Milkshake

Desserts at The Crazy Mason in Old Town Alexandria are anything but ho-hum. Mind-boggling shakes, splits, and ice cream cookies, accessorized with waffles, donuts, candy bars, cupcakes, cookies, pretzels, fruit, and plenty of sprinkles, turn otherwise ordinary desserts into crave-worthy flavor parties. Crazy Mason’s combinations and never-before-seen inventions like Sweet Cheesus (get ready …)—strawberry cheesecake […]

by Katie Farthing

Where to Get Your Edible Cookie Dough Fix in Virginia

Anyone who says they’ve never sneaked a taste of cookie dough before popping it in the oven is either lying or has superior self-restraint. Sometimes, the best part of baking is that secret sample. Now, you can do it with pride—and safely! Edible cookie dough has increasingly popped up on Virginia menus. Build Your Own […]

by Gabriela de Camargo Gonçalves

How to Craft a Colonial Apple Pie

Put a crust in the bottom of a dish, put on it a layer of ripe apples, pared and sliced thin—then a layer of powdered sugar; do this alternately till the dish is full; put in a few tea-spoonsful of rose water and some cloves—put on a crust and bake it. *This colonial recipe appear […]

by Madeline Mayhood

Apple of My Eye

Recipes for Virginia’s fall bounty.

by Staff

21 Spoons Is Culinary Art with a Mission

Ann Butler keeps busy teaching the next generation about food—how to have a healthy relationship with what goes on their table and into their communities, but also important life skills rooted in food.

by John Haddad & Meredith Lindemon

Eat More Hole Foods

This White Stone doughnut shop keeps customers coming back for more. Meet Gabe del Rio and Jeff Ewing, founders of Chesapeake Doughnut Company. In March 2020, the duo was a month away from opening the doors to their new White Stone doughnut shop when the pandemic hit. With storefronts closing and social […]

by Staff

Easter Eating

Four Virginia food bloggers share their holiday recipes just in time for Easter celebrations. If you’re in need of some festive food inspiration, look no further. Britney Brown-Chamberlain of Britney Breaks Bread, Cheryl Norris of Bakes by Brown Sugar, Shani Whisonant of Begin with Butter, and Anina Belle Giannini of Le Chef’s Wife have […]

by Staff

Seasonal Pie Debate

Which is best? Sweet potato or pumpkin? Cathy Barrow knows a thing or two about pies. So we tapped the author of Pie Squared and When Pies Fly (Grand Central Publishing) to settle the seasonal sweet potato vs. pumpkin debate. “Many folks see sweet potato and pumpkin pies as interchangeable, but […]

by Staff

Cooking Up Classics

Brian Noyes cooks up comfort in The Red Truck Bakery Farmhouse Cookbook. Photographs © 2022 by Ronni Lundy Following the success of his first cookbook in 2018, bakery owner Brian Noyes will release a long-anticipated follow-up, The Red Truck Bakery Farmhouse Cookbook (Clarkson Potter) in August. “These are classic and, hopefully, familiar dishes […]

by Konstantin Rega

Let Them Eat Cake … Doughnuts

These homemade delights are the perfect bite-sized indulgence. Tyler Darden Lynchburg donuts, gluten-free Tuesday Apple cider and doughnuts at Mama Crockett’s. Photography by Tyler Darden They don’t call it Fat Tuesday for nothing. The day of revelry before the austere Christian observance of Lent is known as much for its merrymaking as it is […]

by Stephanie Ganz

A Taste of Paris in Charlottesville

With Cou Cou Rachou, Rachel De Jong brings authentic French baking to the Blue Ridge. (Photo of Rachel De Jong by Fred+Elliot) Long before we met in person, I met Rachel De Jong’s lovely sourdough bread at Charlottesville’s Broadcloth restaurant. The loaf left a lasting impression. So when I heard that she […]

by John Haddad

Tea Time

The venerable tradition is sporting a new, modern edge with inventive fare and the broader inclusion of spirits. Adam Ewing No usage without permission. ©2015 Adam Ewing Let’s get this out of the way: Do not use the term “high tea.” You might as well be waving stars and bars and whistling […]

by lisa antonelli bacon

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Buc-ee’s Opens Its First Virginia Location

If you happened to be standing near the I-81 exit for Mt. Crawford in the early morning hours of this past June 30, you’d have witnessed a spectacle. Shoppers flooded into the parking lot and shuffled into block-long lines in hopes of being among the first through the doors of Virginia’s first Buc-ee’s travel station. […]

by Eric J. Wallace

Norfolk Harborfest Returns for Its 50th Anniversary

From June 19–21, Downtown Norfolk welcomes a fleet of over 60 international and U.S. tall ships to celebrate VA250. “Harborfest celebrates the rich maritime and naval heritage that defines Norfolk and the Hampton Roads region,” says Jordan Lett, marketing director of Norfolk Festevents. “With something happening throughout the waterfront each day, Harborfest offers an immersive […]

by Abby Borgeson

U.S. News & World Report Names This Virginia School as One of The Best in The Nation

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology’s streak of hard-hitting accolades continues this year with a glowing review from U.S. News & World Report. The outlet recently crowned it the top high school in Virginia—and fifth best in the nation—for 2026. The ranking praised the Fairfax-based magnet school’s STEM-focused curriculum that builds toward a […]

by Eric J. Wallace

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