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Stuffed Crust Pizza
This has been an extremely busy month for my little family. Between my husband’s work schedule, birthdays, graduations, anniversary parties and my oldest daughter’s last days of Kindergarten (and all that comes with it), T-Ball, dance class and gymnastics, we’ve been running in a million different directions. Dinner has become almost an afterthought lately…let’s just say there have been a lot of turkey sandwiches and cereal for dinner this month. I know, I know. Bad food blogger. Today, I noticed we were on the same…
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Snickerdoodle Cupcakes
Hey, ya’ll! It’s been a little bit since we talked last, no? So much has happened in the last month. I’ve been sick, twice. Like, fever-bronchitis sick. We got a puppy. The girls had two weeks of double dance classes, followed by recital. Weekends have been full of family gatherings and weekdays have been full of yard-work, work-work, and lots of coughing. Life. I feel like I’m always writing about how busy we are, but I don’t mean to. Everyone is busy, and my busy…
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A Moment of Silence
Tonight, instead of my normal weekend post, I’m standing with countless other bloggers in solidarity and support, in memory and in prayer for those who lost their lives and their families and friends on Friday morning. I’m sad. Really, really sad. I’m sad for everyone directly touched by the tragedy. I’m sad for me. I’m sad for my girls. I’m just sad. My way of honoring the memory of those babies is to do what kids do best – finding joy and hope in the…
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Three Layer Oreo Bars
So my life goes like this: yesterday my husband was out with his buddies, so I had an evening to myself. The girls went to bed at 8pm, and I marched right now the stairs, made a big glass of iced tea, bought the girliest-chick-flick ever, and pulled out my big stack of neglected magazines. It was awesome…for about three minutes. Precisely three minutes into my chick-flick, my youngest daughter was calling from the top of the stairs. It was “fundering” and she was scared.…
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Sausage & Egg Breakfast Casserole
The list of things I’ve heard approximately nine billion times today includes: “I’m bored. I’m hungry. Can we have hot chocolate now? Can we go outside yet? Where’s Daddy? Can we put our princess stickers on our wall yet? Can I go to Jordan’s house tomorrow? Can I have a treat? Will you paint my fingernails? Where are my tap shoes?” Welcome to my snow day. We got about ten inches of snow today, which means my boss was kind enough to allow us to…
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Cannoli Poke Cake
There is a darling little restaurant in Kansas City called Cupini’s that I just adore – it’s cute, authentic, family-owned and operated and has some of the best pasta in the city. The pasta is all homemade and totally delicious, but I think my favorite part of visiting the restaurant is the FABULOUS dessert case. It’s full of beautiful pastries, cakes, tiramisu, creme brulee – you name it. And the cannoli – oh, the cannoli. The shell is delicate and crispy, and the filling is…
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Almond Joy Cupcakes
I’m pretty sure I told you in a recent post that we’ve cleaned up our eating habits in our household since the beginning of the year. Nothing crazy, but just a renewed focus on eating healthy, real food and avoiding processed, chemical-ly food. We don’t do diets, because we’ve learned over the years that they just don’t work. I really don’t have much trouble passing up all of the goodies that I bake anyway, a taste or two will usually suit me just fine. But…
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Neapolitan Cupcakes
ho’s ready for dessert? Let me just tell you that I haven’t had dessert (outside of taste-testing Iced Oatmeal Cookies and Chocolate Syrup Bundt Cake) since Christmas. Like many of you I’m sure, we go on a bit of a detox at the first of the year to get off the holiday stuff-your-face-with-all-of-the-yum train, so our kitchen has been more spinach and less butter. It’s kind of sad, actually. But really, it’s good and it’s nice to get back into the swing of things…
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Chocolate Toffee Cupcakes
I’m back! I know, I haven’t really been gone all that long, but it sure feels like ages since I’ve blogged. November and December are just super busy months for me. I know most of it is self-induced – if I could somehow just let things be less than perfectly planned for once, if I could just go with the flow and ignore my messy kitchen or the piling laundry for an evening…if I could just go to bed before midnight – I’m sure I would…
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Irish Whiskey Cake in a Jar
{Feel like you’ve seen this already? You may have! This was originally posted on culinarychat.net last week. I’ll be contributing to their fabulous site once a month in the dessert category. I’ll be re-posting the articles here on the blog as well, just in case you miss them. For links and other fun Lemon Sugar information, be sure to like my Facebook page!} About this time every year, I start planning our annual St. Patrick’s Day dinner. It’s become a tradition in our little…
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Peanut Butter Cookie Cupcakes
Sometimes when I’m baking, I have a general idea what I’m going to end up with but I’m never sure what the end result will be until I’m completely done. That’s what happened with these cupcakes. I knew I wanted a peanut butter cookie-type cake, but beyond that I was winging it. This cake is thicker and denser than a regular cupcake, more like a big thick peanut butter cookie, and I added peanut butter chips to give it even more of a cookie feel. I…
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Kumquat-Orange Cardamom Bars
Hi everyone! Once again, I’m super-lucky to have a fantastic guest poster grace the pages of Lemon Sugar! Everyone, meet Samantha from The Little Ferraro Kitchen. I’ve been following along with Samantha’s blog for quite a few months now. I love to watch her posts on Instagram, because she never EVER fails to make me hungry! Her recently revamped website is bright and fun to read, so I suggest you head right on over there and spend some time getting to know her! While you are…
