Hot Chocolate. 4th only to pie, chocolate peanut butter ice cream, and cereal as the things that contributed most to me gaining 60 pounds each time I was pregnant. So of course, when I saw it in cupcake form, with… wait for it… Marshmallow buttercream… I was in. I was sooooooooo in. I will admit… Continue reading Hot Chocolate Cupcakes with Marshmallow Buttercream
My friend Leina hosted a cookie exchange/princess party for Christmastime (cookie exchange for the adults, princess tea party for our daughters) which I thought was a brilliant idea. One of the cookies that she made was a buttery, soft, ah-mazing chocolate cookie. The second I put it in my mouth, I could tell by how… Continue reading Chocolate Gooey Butter Cookies
Oh my, these are yummy. They have all the delicious flavors of banana bread, with the craggy texture of a scone, and they are topped with a butter/brown sugar glaze. I am constantly trying to find ways to use up overripe bananas (my family never eats them as fast as I buy them) and this… Continue reading Banana Bread Scones
Happy New Year, everyone! It’s that time of year again, time for fireworks and champagne, midnight kisses, resolutions we will not keep, and my top ten most popular recipes of this past year. So here they are, my most dish-soap worthy recipes of 2012 #10 Double Lemon Poppyseed Muffins This was one of my Foodgawker… Continue reading Top Ten Recipes of 2012 (Reader’s Favorites)
Who doesn’t love the classic combination of chocolate and peanut butter, especially in a blossom cookie? Now, I think we can all agree that the classic soft peanut butter cookies with a chocolate kiss in the middle are absolutely delicious. But there is one way to make them better. Peanut butter cups instead of kisses.… Continue reading Peanut Butter Cup Blossoms
This cookie dough is one of the more brilliant things I have ever seen. It is a simple, cream cheese, shortbread-ish dough, that, divided into thirds and a few things added to each dough makes three different unique Christmas cookies that nobody would ever know you used the same batch of dough for. From this… Continue reading Christmas Cream Cheese Cookies – 3 Ways!
I am not one of those people who spends three weeks baking all of my Christmas goodies. As a general rule, I pick about half a dozen things I’m going to do for my friends, neighbors, family, and my husband’s co-workers, and I knock them all out in one day. Yesterday was that day for… Continue reading Eggnog Cookies with Eggnog Glaze
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