Desserts

Cinnamon Toast Crunch Dessert Pizza

Before I tell you guys about this dessert pizza, I have to first tell you about my new puppy.  Okay. My husband wouldn’t like that term.  Our new puppy. His nickname is Grizzy, his formal name is Clark W. Griswold Jr., and he’s my new baby.  I seriously cannot believe how much I love him.  I’ve… Continue reading Cinnamon Toast Crunch Dessert Pizza

Biscuits / Muffins / Scones · Breads · Breakfast · Cakes and Cupcakes · cinnamon rolls · Desserts

Apple Cinnamon Roll Cake

By a long shot, my  most popular post of all time on this blog has been my Cinnamon Roll Cake.  It is a quick, 9×13 cake, with all the tastes of a cinnamon roll, but with so much less work.  It is the perfect special occasion breakfast, and it is wildly popular, in spite of… Continue reading Apple Cinnamon Roll Cake

Cakes and Cupcakes · Desserts

Ina Garten’s Angel Food Cake

I love, love angel food cake with strawberries and whipped cream, or by itself.  My mom usually asks for it for her birthday, so I get to make at least one a year. It is decadent but low-guilt (if you don’t load it up with too much whipped cream) and one of those things that… Continue reading Ina Garten’s Angel Food Cake

Cakes and Cupcakes · Desserts

Best Vanilla Buttercream for Cakes

Confession: I do not enjoy making cakes.  At all.  People often ask me if they can hire me to make a cake, and I always turn them down. I do not have the patience or the creativity to assemble or decorate them.  Bundt cake?  A cake in a 9×13 pan that you just dump some… Continue reading Best Vanilla Buttercream for Cakes

cookies · Desserts

Perfect Snickerdoodles

I know, I know.  Everybody has a recipe for Snickerdoodles and everybody thinks that their recipe is perfect.  My old favorite recipe for Snickerdoodles did not have cream of tartar, and you wouldn’t believe all the haters who sent me messages to let me know that my snickerdoodle was not really a snickerdoodle because it… Continue reading Perfect Snickerdoodles

Desserts · pies · valentine's day

Cherry Crunch Dessert – for Valentine’s Day

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

bars · brownies · Cakes and Cupcakes

Lunch Lady Brownies

Remember how great the school cafeteria food was when you were a kid?  I remember begging, begging my parents to let me buy lunch.  They were almost always like “No! You aren’t eating that crap!” but every once in a while their resistance would fade and in the face of their pleading 8 year old,… Continue reading Lunch Lady Brownies