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.
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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.
Chocolate Cake Donuts
Obviously, baked and fried donuts are not made the same, but I feel like they also have there own unique mood or vibe. They deserve their own category and not just because that opens up the opportunity to have two “favorite donuts”… thats just a free plus here. Homemade baked donuts have a reputation of being dry and only good when enjoyed the same day they are baked, but they don’t have to be like this! My chocolate cake donut recipe creates the most incredibly moist, tender cake donuts that stay fabulous for days, so they are great to make for a whole week of sweet treats, as gifts for friends or to bring for the entire office to nosh on. This recipe yields 24 full size donuts, but it is super easy to halve if you don’t need a big batch of them and I am sharing a few
Candied Apple Oatmeal Cookies
I love oatmeal cookies… correction, I love MY oatmeal cookies and I have some good ones on this blog. From my classic oatmeal chocolate chip to these toffee chai oatmeal cookies and of course these cherry pecan chocolate oatmeal cookies… a great oatmeal cookie is hard to beat. And while I already have all of these delicious options, I am happy to say that I am adding yet another fabulous oatmeal cookie recipe today. These candied apple oatmeal cookies are chewy, gooey and packed with oats, tender apples, warm spices and heath candy bar bits. All of the flavors of candied apples inside an amazing oatmeal cookie. Sounds perfect, right? Let’s get started… Begin by whisking 8 tablespoons of softened butter with 3/4 cup of brown sugar, 1 large egg and 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract until fully combined. Fold in 1 1/2 cups of all purpose flour, 1 1/2
Chocolate Chip Loaf Cake
I love a good loaf cake. I have so many super easy recipes that come together in one bowl and that can be made ahead and still stay moist and tender for a few days. There is something special about most of them – a cup of hot coffee whisked into the batter, greek yogurt, applesauce – all of these ingredients can help to keep a loaf moist and tender, but these are not the only ingredients that will help create a beautiful loaf cake… … mayonnaise works great too… trust me… Mayonnaise is essentially just oil, eggs and vinegar – i.e. fat, moisture and acidity – so, it adds something special to baked goods like this amazing chocolate chip loaf cake. It is so moist, so tender and loaded with plenty of mini chocolate chips in every single bite. Don’t let the mayonnaise get in your head here. Trust
Maple Chai Blondies
Fall is here and while I am a chai all year kind of gal, I especially love pairing it with other fall ingredients like pumpkin, apple and of course… maple. These maple chai blondies are a little chewy and a little cakey with the best warmly spiced maple flavors. Perfect with a cup of coffee, perfect with a PSL, perfect for the fall. Let’s get started… Begin by whisking 2 cups of brown sugar into a cup of melted butter until fully combined and then whisk in 1/3 cup of pure maple syrup, 2 large eggs, 2 large egg yolks and a teaspoon of pure vanilla extract and a teaspoon of maple extract if you have some on hand. Add 2 cups of all purpose flour, 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon of ground ginger, 1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg, 1/4 teaspoon of cloves, 1/4 teaspoon of cardamom, 2 teaspoons of baking
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.
