Today has been a good day. Today is Christmas Eve, but my little family of three has been pretending that today is Christmas Day. We celebrated Christmas Eve last night. My husband will be working all day tomorrow so we moved all our festivities up a day. Its our first Christmas with a child that…
dessert
Chocolate Pumpkin Dump Cake
This Chocolate Pumpkin Dump Cake was inspired by a recipe I posted a few years back for my original Pumpkin Dump Cake and it is still my most viewed and loved recipe on my blog. It’s a recipe my mother passed down and one of my very favorites from my childhood. Its one of the easiest…
Brown Sugar and Cinnamon Peach Short Cakes with Cinnamon Mascarpone Whipped Cream
Is there anything better than fresh, ripe, juicy peaches? Perhaps only one thing is better: fresh, ripe, juicy peaches stuffed between warm brown sugar and cinnamon biscuits with clouds of cinnamon mascarpone whipped cream. I found some glorious peaches for 50 cents a pound and I just could not resist buying tons of them. I…
Meyer Lemon and Raspberry Crepe Cake (Perfect Valentine’s Day Dessert)
So, I made myself and early birthday cake. My birthday isn’t for a couple weeks, but I needed an excuse to create this recipe I have had swirling around in my brain lately. I have so much to say about this cake! Lets break it down, piece by piece. First of all, it has…
Buckeye Cake: Chocolate Cake, Peanut Butter Cheesecake, Peanut Butter Frosting, Chocolate Glaze, and Homemade Buckeye Candies
I had great plans for the new year. So many healthy recipes and tips on eating healthy. I promise I was working on a really great post about healthy food. I had every intention to post it today. I got a little bit side tracked. Chocolate Peanut Butter cake will do that to a person….
Hot Cocoa Cookies
I have a personal tradition of drinking a cup of hot cocoa on the first snow of every winter. I always load it up with whipped cream drizzled with caramel and sprinkled with a little bit of hot chocolate powder. The first snow of winter calls for a little indulgence. Whether its to celebrate or…
Vegetarian Thanksgiving: Buttercup Squash Pie
When I heard that my favorite ice cream shop, Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream had a new buttercup squash flavor for fall, I knew right away that I had to find myself a buttercup squash and make something out of it. I had never heard of buttercup squash before this year, but everything about it…
Pumpkin Bread French Toast
The other day, my husband and I were looking for a place to go out to eat. We are really indecisive about restaurants. I think we had already spent 30 minutes looking through online menus. I don’t remember where we went or what we got (must not have been that great), but I remember seeing…
Cute Halloween Sugar Cookies
I just thought I would do a quick little post to show you the just-for-fun Halloween sugar cookies I made last week. After completing an order of 4 dozen cookies, I had a bunch of icing and some circle cookies left over. For the first time in a long time, I made cookies for no…
Ben Patch’s Fresh Peach Pie with Cream Cheese Filling and Fresh Berries
Is there anything better than fresh peaches? I’m not sure. This pie recipe was given to me by Ben Patch. Do you know who he is? He is college Volley Ball player for BYU and he is really good. And he is really really tall. 6’8” people! He is full of energy and personality and…
