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.
Apple Crumb Donuts
We love a good crumb topping and today, we are topping my baked applesauce donuts with a buttery crumb topping and they are so good! These apple crumb donuts give both warmly spiced apple vibes and coffee cake-esque feels all in one very delicious little package. Let’s get started… Before you get started on the donut batter, make the crumb topping and chill it in the freezer so the crumbs are firm and cold before you add them. In a small dish, combine 1/2 cup of all purpose flour, 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar, 2 tablespoons of brown sugar and 1/2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon. Mix in 2 tablespoons of melted butter until you get a large crumb and chill in the freezer for now. Whisk 1/2 cup of applesauce with 1/4 cup of a neutral oil (I usually use olive oil here), 3/4 cup of your favorite milk and 2 teaspoons of pure
Baked Cinnamon Sugar Applesauce Donuts
Baked donuts get a bad wrap sometimes. They can be dry or if they aren’t, they are only good the same day you bake them… but these cinnamon sugar applesauce donuts are proof that baked donuts can be moist and beautifully tender for days! This batter is super easy. Simply whisk 1/2 cup of applesauce with 1/4 cup of a neutral oil (I usually use olive oil here), 3/4 cup of your favorite milk and 2 teaspoons of pure vanilla extract until well combined. Add 1/4 cup of granulated sugar and 1/4 cup of brown sugar and vigorously whisk until fully incorporated. Add 2 cups of all purpose flour, 2 teaspoons of baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda, 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg, 1/4 teaspoon of cloves and 1/2 teaspoon of salt and mix until just combined. Everything doesn’t have to be perfectly smooth here,
Double Chocolate Zucchini Bread
I don’t say this often, but this recipe is what I would consider the ultimate double chocolate zucchini bread. It is absolute perfection and I am fully aware of how serious that accusation is. This zucchini bread is incredibly moist, tender, richly chocolate with balanced sweetness and no hint of the two huge zucchinis that are hidden inside. Whether your zucchini plants were over achievers this summer or you bought too many during your last trip to the grocery store, there are no wrong inspirations for baking zucchini bread. This recipe comes together in one bowl and there is no need to squeeze out the excess liquid in your zucchini. It couldn’t be easier! You can use the traditional long, thin dark green zucchini for this bread, but you can also use yellow summer squash or calabacitas (thicker, mild and slightly sweeter Mexican summer squash) as well. Since I know
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
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.
