This is my mommy’s birthday cake. I guess technically it was both of my parents’ birthday cakes, since their birthdays are only a few days apart, but it was made with my mom in mind. She has this thing about mice. Not real mice, mind you (I think she’d scream and run away if she [...]
Tags: baking, birthday cake, recipes, sweets
I whipped these up tonight for dessert but couldn’t resist sampling one before dessert time rolled around. I also couldn’t resist eating any icing that may have found its way out of the icing bowl and on to my finger. The original recipe yeilded 16 cupcakes – I halved to make 8. The halved recipe [...]
Tags: baking, chocolate cake, cupcakes, recipes, sweets
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Although the title of these is fudge brownies, even following the “make it as fudgey as possible” instructions leaves me with something resembling mousse when it goes into the pan, and tasting a little bit [...]
Now, these will never top the wonderful confection that graced this site in my early days, but they literally took about 30 seconds to prepare and were done in 20 minutes. This makes them fantastic in my book.
1 sheet frozen puff pastry, thawed
1/2 c. sugar
2 Tbs melted butter
2 Tbs cinnamon
Unfold puff pastry, and spread melted [...]
Tags: breakfast, cinnamon rolls, fast, recipes, sweets
These were a great way to start Sunday morning. I found this recipe in my Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook, Bridal Edition, which I actually hadn’t cracked open since I received it as a gift over a year ago. Shame on me. I had to modify the recipe a little bit to make it [...]
Tags: baking, breakfast, muffins, sweets, Uncategorized
Anne of Anne Strawberry picked this week’s TWD recipe, a classic cheesecake recipe. I’m excited to see all of the variations that people come up with for this one! This will be my last official Tuesdays with Dorie post, however, because I’m back on the “healthy eating” bandwagon, and as much as I love Dorie [...]
Tags: cheesecake, chocolate, recipes, sweets, tuesdays with dorie
So when I was about 13 my parents cruelly abandoned my brothers and I and went on a cruise. (I don’t really harbor resentment, it’s just funnier this way, Mom.) And they brought back these tiny Tortuga rum cakes that I ate so happily because I was not supposed to have alcohol and I was [...]
Tags: baking, pioneer woman, rum, sweets
This recipe, which sits in my recipe box as “Grandma Aune’s Chocolate Mint Bars” were first made for me by the lovely Mrs. Pleasant of Pleasant Eats back when we were in high school together. I fell in love with them – how could you not – with three layers, two of which are chocolate, [...]
I love fudge. I especially love this fudge, which does not involve marshmallow fluff. Not that I’m opposed to marshmallows really, but this doesn’t have that weird mouth feel and, in my opinion, is better the next day because it has dried out a bit and starts to feel and taste like crunchy icing, which [...]
Another TWD post! This week’s recipe was selected by noskos at Living the Life. Check out her blog for the recipe
I made these sugar cookies for a bake sale fundraiser that my school’s Relay for Life team was having. Although I can’t say these are my favorite sugar cookies, they were very easy [...]
Tags: cookies, sugar cookies, sweets, twd
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