Beautiful food is my passion. Whether I am cooking for friends and family or styling food for photo shoots, I love creating beautiful dishes that you know you will love before you even take a bite.
In addition to creating clean, modern and beautiful content for restaurants, businesses and ingredient companies, I also have been collecting my favorite recipes to share with you here on Espresso & Lime.
Whether you are here for the recipes or here to create beautiful content for your business, food has brought us together and this makes me happy.
Food Styling
Product Photography
Food Photography
Recipe Development
Welcome
I'm Fallon, and I specialize in food styling, project photography, food photography and recipe development. We lived on the tiny island of Okinawa, Japan for several years and I found myself cooking in a very small kitchen without an oven, but with easy access to incredibly fresh fruits, vegetables and some of the best seafood in the world. As a girl who used her oven almost every day, my cooking style had to adapt and this was an eye opening, educational experience that taught me so much about food and the many ways that you can accomplish beautiful dishes from around the world.
Pumpkin Patch Cake
How adorable is this cake? A delicious cake topped with the cutest little pumpkins, a crushed cookie dirt trail and some fresh herb “vines”. This cake is actually pretty easy to bring together and it will easily be the cutest piece in your holiday dessert spread. Let me show you how to make it… Let’s start by making the almond flour pumpkins. Simply combine a cup of super fine almond flour with 1/2 cup of natural peanut butter, 1/2 teaspoon of pumpkin spice and 2-3 tablespoons of maple syrup. I like to start with 2 tablespoons and add the 3rd if the mixture feels too dry to hold together. Form little balls of dough and use a toothpick or baking twine to form the pumpkin ribs. Dust in sugar (optional) and top with chocolate chip stems. Done. Bake your favorite cake in a large baking dish like this beautiful 12″
Chocolate Ricotta Cream Cheese Frosting
I love a cream cheese frosting and if I were to be given the choice between that and a buttercream, I’d go cream cheese every time… no offense to buttercream at all. I just prefer the texture of a creamy frosting. This particular frosting is chocolate (mmmmm!) and not only does it have cream cheese in it, but it also has ricotta, which I adore. The textures of ricotta and cream cheese both add something very special to this frosting and while it can be made with all ricotta or all cream cheese, the combination of both make for a truly fabulous chocolate frosting. Let’s get started… Begin by beating a cup of full fat ricotta, 4 ounces of cream cheese (both softened to room temperature) and a teaspoon of pure vanilla extract until well combined in a large bowl. I like to do this with an electric hand mixer,
Devils Food Cake
Devils food cake aka the opposite of angel food cake is a rich, dark, decadent chocolate cake that has been around since the 19th century and is always synonymous with the ultimate chocolate cake. Made with simple pantry ingredients that create a moist texture and boldly chocolate flavor, this recipe can be made as a large sheet cake, a two or three layer cake, cupcakes, loaves… whatever you need in the moment. Just pair with a great frosting and enjoy! Let’s get started… Begin by combining 1/2 cup of room temperature salted butter with 2 cups of granulated sugar, 1/3 cup of brown sugar, 3 large eggs, 1 large egg yolk and 2 teaspoons of pure vanilla extract in a large bowl and vigorously whisk until everything is completely combined. You can bring this batter together with a stiff whisk and strong forearm or using an electric hand mixer, whichever
Almond Flour Pumpkins
As soon as the fall arrives, I begin incorporating pumpkins into every aspect of life. While pumpkin flavored drinks and desserts are obvious, I also love adding cute pumpkin visuals to sweet treats especially when they are going to be brought to a party or get together… A delicious treat + cute pumpkin visuals = holiday perfection Now I do have a slight problem with this whole situation, because I am not a very artistic person (food photography and creating 3D art visuals are very different skills!), but thankfully, I found inspiration for these adorable almond flour pumpkins and all of my holiday treats are better for it. Let’s get started… Full disclosure, I found the inspiration for these cuties on a few different blogs, so I do not deserve full credit for them, but I have made them my own and can’t wait for you to try them! Combine
I absolutely love my Victoria Cookware cast iron skillets. They are durable, easy to clean, maintain wonderfully even heat and are oven safe.
If you make smoothies, sauces, salsa or soup then you should definitely have a great blender in your kitchen and I love my Ninja.
A kitchen scale makes a huge difference in baked goods and weighing your ingredients can ensure delicious results.
