You guys. This is not yo’ grandmother’s pecan pie! For starters, there is no corn syrup in here. No evil, poisonous corn syrup. 😉 Yes, I have watched Food Inc. Let that sink in. Corn syrup free. Mrs. Butterworths syrup free. Maple syrup free. It’s also, incidentally, the very best pecan pie you will… Continue reading Southern Boy Pecan Pie
Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig, or, Happy St. Patricks Day (almost) to you all. The holiday of my people. My husband will tell you I’m not Irish enough to call myself Irish, but I say ’tis a mere technicality. My family is as Irish as you can get without actually being born there. My great grandmother… Continue reading St. Patricks Day Cookies
About a year and a half ago, when I was heavily pregnant with my third baby, I got the strangest craving for cake. To most of you, that probably doesn’t really seem like a strange craving, but for me it was. I’m not generally a cake person. If I’m asked what I want for my… Continue reading Homemade Lemon “Nothing Bundt Cake”
Well, I have died and gone to sugar cookie heaven, for I have found an icing/glaze for sugar cookies that is not only beautiful, it tastes amazing and it firms up almost immediately so that you can stack the cookies on top of one another. Oh, and did I mention it is a million times… Continue reading The Easiest and Most Beautiful Way to Frost Sugar Cookies
On Valentine’s day, your desserts should be red or pink, whether it’s New York cheesecake with a strawberry topping, Lofthouse style sugar cookies, hand pies, or one of my very favorite desserts: warm cherry crunch with vanilla ice cream. I found out long ago that the key to making an amazing cherry dessert is to… Continue reading Cherry Crunch Dessert – for Valentine’s Day
In case you aren’t familiar with cronuts, I will define: they are a mythical dessert item in which a croissant and a donut fall in love and have a baby: The Cronut. Turns out, and this is not shocking, that cronuts are a very dangerous thing to have in your home. Not physically dangerous, of… Continue reading I Made Cronuts, yo!
I basically live my life like a 7 year old. From holiday to holiday. It’s constantly in the back of my mind. “Which holiday is next?” I decorate for all of them. I basically take down my Christmas decor and replace it with Valentine’s Day. Which I replace with St. Patrick’s Day. Which I replace… Continue reading Valentine’s Day Peanut Butter Blondies
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