Ice Cream Dessert
It’s summer, it’s hot, everyone wants a cold treat. Are your kids making weekly trips to the grocery store for more popsicles or ice cream? Mine are – they don’t last long when it’s 90+ degrees out. I’m not complaining. I love summer and anyone who knows me knows I’d rather be hot than cold.…
Chocolate Cake with Berry Filling
Does the world need another chocolate cake? Well, it needs this one! As cakes go, I am picky. If I am going to enjoy a cake it needs to be two things – not a white plain vanilla cake, and moist. The only white cake recipe you’ll find on this blog is for angel food…
No Bake Lemon Cheesecake
If you follow me consistently, you might be thinking, “Hey, don’t you already have a Lemon Cheesecake recipe?” Yes, yes I do. However, that recipe, while excellent, involves making lemon curd. This recipe skips that step entirely = much easier and equally as delicious. Honestly, if I had to each lemon cheesecake everyday for the…
Lemon Sheet Cake
When Spring gets here I always start to crave lemon treats. I’m not sure why because growing up in FL with a lemon tree in my backyard, the lemons were usually ripe late summer, fall. However, because of said lemon tree, we had lemon juice in our freezer all year round so if I am…
Homemade Doughnuts
In the summer of 1999, I did a study abroad trip in Israel through Brigham Young University. We lived at the BYU Jerusalem Center which had a cafeteria with a head chef named Nasser. Every so often he would treat us to doughnuts. Near the end of our stay he taught a cooking class of…
Chocolate Chip Cookies
I know what you are thinking. Does the world need another chocolate chip cookie recipe? I don’t know the answer to that. I do know that I want the world to have THIS chocolate chip cookie recipe because it is, hands down, my favorite. It has all that I love about a chocolate chip cookie.…
Grasshopper Fluff
The classic combination of mint and Oreos is hard to resist, at least for me anyway. I am not sure where the term grasshopper came from to name this classic combo, but we all know what it is. One of the staples that I craved with every pregnancy was a grasshopper milk shake. I like…
Homemade Oreo Cookies
Oreos are America’s favorite cookie, right? That’s what I’ve always heard. It’s number four on the Huffpost’s list of America’s Favorite Cookies. Also, how many people turn down an Oreo? Not me! Original, double stuff, golden, mint, fudge, there are so many to choose from, and honestly, they are mostly all good. I say mostly…
Lemon Fluff Squares
Right about now, in the middle of January, I start pining for summer. It doesn’t take much of winter for me to be over it. Yes, I like a white Christmas, but after that, I’m done. I know I am not alone. When I saw this recipe in an old cookbook, I decided it was…
No Bake Key Lime Pie
Is there any more refreshing treat than key lime pie? My favorite thing to order at the Cheesecake Factory is Key Lime Cheesecake. As much as I love to eat cheesecake, I will admit, I don’t love making it. Oh, believe me, I will make it, but if there is a faster alternative, sign me…
Breakfast Burritos
Breakfast. Some people say it is the most important meal of the day. I am not a nutritionist or anything close so I can’t claim that breakfast is important for scientific reasons. I am human, though, and know that I need fuel for the day. So breakfast, it’s an important meal. It is also important…
Pumpkin Spice Cinnamon Rolls
Fall is officially here and I am fully embracing all things pumpkin spice. I love that when the seasons change our food changes too! Isn’t that what we love about the holidays? Food?!? As we transition from flip flops to boots, shorts to jeans, and tank tops to sweaters, our food transitions from burgers to…
Crumb Coffee Cake
It is not too often that I eat cake for breakfast but when I do – I want a crumb coffee cake. My blueberry coffee cake is amazing as well as my cinnamon sour cream coffee cake. However, nostalgia always takes over and this one brings back all the memories. My sister and I were…