Archive for the 'Dessert' Category

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes

These cupcakes are so decadently delicious!  The recipe comes from Taste of Home Cake Mix Treats, and if you love chocolate and peanut butter you’ll love these cupcakes!!!! Ingredients: 1 package chocolate cake mix 1 1/4 c. water 1/2 c. peanut butter 1/3 c. canola oil 3 eggs 24 miniature peanut butter cups Frosting: 12 [...]

Easy Peasy Hamentashen

This hamentashen recipe is so easy.  I’ve got a family recipe that calls for the dough to be refrigerated overnight, and whenever I look at that recipe I just want to make these cookies right now!  So this easy recipe is perfect and tasty too! This recipe is from allrecipes.com. Ingredients: 1 (18.25 oz.) package [...]

Chocolate Chocolate Mint Chip Cookies

Have you seen the new dark chocolate mint chips by Nestle?  I absolutely love mint, so I knew these were right up my alley!  -s is the cookie baker in our house, so he found a chocolate chocolate chip cookie recipe on Food Network, and used that recipe to make these most delicious cookies! If [...]

Jelly Donuts

Who knew homemade donuts were so easy to make?  I surely didn’t, but I think we will make this an annual tradition.  It was so much fun and the kiddos all enjoyed decorating the donuts. Recipe adapted from November 2009 issue of Southern Living. Ingredients: 1 (25 oz.) package of frozen yeast rolls, thawed according [...]

Cranberry Jello Salad

Jello salads and molded jello salads were all the rage in the 70′s and they still are for my family in the Pacific Northwest.  Most jello salads I don’t particularly care for, but I eat enough to be polite.  There is one exception.  My Great Aunt Arlene makes this wonderful raw cranberry jello salad every [...]

Pumpkin Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

We went to Thanksgiving dinner at a friend’s house this year and we were tasked with desserts.  We brought a traditional pumpkin pie, chocolate chip cheesecake bars, and pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting.  The pumpkin cake was pretty good, especially if you love pumpkin and spice cakes, and for that reason I would give [...]

Blueberry Crumb Coffee Cake

I found this recipe at A Year in the Kitchen, and the recipe is adapted from a recipe by Dorie Greenspan.  This blueberry crumb coffee cake is really delicious, and even has enough crumb topping for -s! Ingredients: For the Crumbs: 5 TBSP unsalted butter at room temp 1/4 c. sugar 1/3 c. light brown [...]

Apple Crisp

I love fruit desserts.  What happens when my kiddos pick out apples at the grocery store and then refuse to eat them when we get home?  The apples find their way into something delicious, and tonight it was apple crisp.  Delicious on its own or topped with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream. Ingredients: 5 [...]

Oatmeal Scotchies

-s loves oatmeal scotchies.  He whipped up a batch this afternoon, and the cookies are delicious, with the added bonus of making the house smell heavenly…kind of like one of those really yummy smelling candles.  The recipe is courtesy of Nestle. ***If you are making a double recipe do one recipe at a time, because [...]

Oatmeal Toffee Chocolate Chip Cookies

These cookies were really good, although I thought the toffee kind of got lost in the cookie, so maybe add more toffee bits than the original recipe calls for.  This recipe is adapted from the oatmeal toffee cookies found in the December 2008 issue of Cooking Light. Ingredients: 3.4  ounces  all-purpose flour (about 3/4 cup) [...]




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