These Refrigerator Date Pinwheel Cookies have a brown sugar cookie base filled with date walnut filling and are perfect for your cookie tray. I’m not sure as you get older if you become wiser, … [Read more...]
Search Results for: red velvet
The perfect cookie (for me)…
These Pumpkin Gingerdoodles are a perfect blend of pumpkin snickerdoodles and molasses ginger cookies to form a darn perfect cookie. Hopefully you had a wonderful Thanksgiving or if you live … [Read more...]
2011 in review….
2011. You were an interesting year to say the least. I never say if a year is good or bad, as I am more of a shades of gray kind of gal, but this year was what they call in hockey a restructuring … [Read more...]
Up on the roof top…
Easy to make and a fun cookie project for the kids these Nutter Butter Reindeer Cookies should be a must on your holiday cookie plate. A couple people I know are struggling with the blending of … [Read more...]
Portable cocoa…
These Candy Cane Cocoa Truffles are made with milk chocolate, heavy whipping cream, and candy cane hot chocolate mix. What I am about to say will be upsetting to some…I’m not really a … [Read more...]
Insert Witty Title…
These Brownie Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting are the beloved combo of chocolate and peanut butter. Family and friends will love them. Insert witty post here. Sorry I have been MIA … [Read more...]
I can’t even blame the dog this time…
The Red Velvet Massacre of 2011... Please ignore what appears to be a dirty floor...clearly the camera filter made it look that way. :D … [Read more...]
Fur Baby Friday….privacy, what’s that?
You know just once I would like to get to go into the bathroom without an audience. And if you say close the door...problem is she likes to scratch at it and I think the apartment people would be anti … [Read more...]
Bieber fever…
“I just need to pay someone to take my kid to see the F*ing Bieber movie, I don’t have the strength to sit through that.” My ears perked up and I leaned over and said, “How much are you offering?” … [Read more...]
You take the high road…
…and well, I’ll take the low road. Sometimes it’s necessary in life to take the high road. Bite your tongue. I know some people say you don’t feel better telling someone off, I beg to differ. :P I … [Read more...]
Sam’s Club making Holiday Desserts easy and fun…
Most everything is still in boxes and very unorganized sadly. Most of my bake ware is still packed up (I know, I know) yet I still get asked to go to parties and bring things. Ahhh. I had a party to … [Read more...]
White Chocolate topped Gingerbread Cookies…
These White Chocolate Topped Gingerbread Cookies are soft and chewy molasses cookies rolled in sugar and topped with white chocolate. This is an updated version of an old post originally in … [Read more...]
What’s the rush?…
These Peppermint Crunch-Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies are holiday twist on a classic chocolate chip cookie with the addition of peppermint crunch. Every year Christmas celebrating seems to start … [Read more...]
Holiday Taste of Sam’s Club Event…
So if you are like me then you love going to warehouse clubs and getting the free samples. Well if you are near a Sam's Club you are in BIG luck this weekend. Big luck. Heck, even if you don't live … [Read more...]
Milk and cookies make the world a better place…
These Mini Mocha Chocolate Chip Cookies have a coffee and chocolate base all rolled into sugar for a nice crunch. So I was updating my recipe index the other day. And when I do that I tend … [Read more...]
Yes, Virginia…
This Red Velvet Cheesecake is a vibrant red cheesecake with a hint of cocoa powder and covered in cream cheese frosting. Yes Virginia….there is a Red Velvet Cheesecake. Falling into the why … [Read more...]
Habit forming….
These Red Hot Cinnamon Cupcakes have a traditional red velvet cupcake recipe but topped with a boiled cinnamon frosting for a twist. Sometimes we become a creature of habit, especially in the … [Read more...]
Wow, I’m such a food whore…
Yay! This weeks pick Caramel-Peanut-Topped Brownie Cake (chosen by Tammy of Wee Treats by Tammy) is one I have already made in the past. I actually planned on making it again since my hubby LOVED … [Read more...]
Teaching vs the Real World…
My husband works in the computer industry. When he first met me he had considered leaving it all and becoming a teacher. One of the things he liked about me was that I was a teacher. Then he saw … [Read more...]
Bumbles bounce…
These Marshmallow Snowflake Cupcakes are vanilla marshmallow cupcakes topped with marshmallow meringue frosting and snowflake sprinkles. Among many of my favorite things to do for the Holidays … [Read more...]
Minty Fresh…
These Andes Chocolate Mint Cookies are a fudgy, chewy chocolate cookie with Andes Mints swirled on top. Perfect for chocolate mint lovers. Since my (now ex) husband is so picky, I often have to … [Read more...]
The cookie so good my mom had to tell me they were so good about 20 times…
One of my most pinned recipes. These Cranberry Orange Pistachio Cookies are full of dried cranberries and pistachios and rolled in an orange sugar. My mom and I talk a lot about food. I mean a … [Read more...]
Don’t Wear White When Eating This….
This Classic Red Velvet Cake is made how my southern ex-husband grew up eating his cake…with chopped pecans IN the frosting. The Daring Bakers are at it again. This month we chose Classic … [Read more...]
Save a Peppermint Stick for Old Saint Nick…
This Candy Cane Cheesecake has a secret ingredient that you will never guess that helps bring out the candy cane flavor in this holiday treat. The tree is up, the stockings are hung and cookies … [Read more...]
Can’t Catch Me…I’m the Gingerbread Man
These Gingerbread Cupcakes with Pumpkin Cream Cheese Frosting are the ultimate in holiday flavors and a great alternative to pie. So I was robbed by my migraine of my usually holiday fun. … [Read more...]
Cookie Exchange #2
These Coconut Pecan Cookies are like having German Chocolate Cake in portable cookie form. Fun for cookie exchange. Our second cookie featured in my cookie exchange is called Coconut Pecan … [Read more...]
Thumbs Up
These Traditional Jam Thumbprint Cookies are the classic cookie rolled in crushed walnuts and filled with raspberry jam. Anyone who knows me would call me non-traditional or unconventional….my … [Read more...]
Improvisation
This Orange Cranberry Pound Cake is a simple but tasty orange flavored butter pound cake studded with dried cranberries. My husband is from the South, a true southern gentleman through and … [Read more...]
Recipe Index
* Indicates that more than 10 readers have made that item and gave positive feedback about them. Cookies White Chocolate Dried Cherry Cookies* Lemon Snickerdoodles Circus … [Read more...]
Hope Floats
These Dr. Pepper Vanilla Float Cupcakes have a chocolate Dr. Pepper cake batter with a Vanilla Ice Cream Whipped Cream Frosting. When I first married my ex husband, the Picky Eater, I was … [Read more...]