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Cranberry Walnut Cream Cheese Muffins
Even though I have about fifteen billion pumpkin recipes that I’m dying to try out, I thought it best to pace myself and take a break from traditional fall flavors for a few days. Ok, honestly, I had some cranberries in my freezer that have been calling to me for weeks. Then, I found this recipe. Shortly after I found the recipe, they appeared in my kitchen. And while I’m being honest, I actually had really good intentions to deliver some of these to…
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Cookie Dough Brownies
Right now, I’m sitting in the lobby of my daughter’s gymnastics studio, waiting for her to finish up. In my flurry to get her fed, dressed and out the door after school, I didn’t have time to eat dinner myself. On top of that, I’m writing a blog post about cookie dough brownies. This is pure torture. I’m really wishing I would have packed myself a little brownie goodie bag. I feel like I’ve been making a lot of cakes (and cupcakes) lately,…
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Spiced Pumpkin Cheesecake
It’s officially fall! It’s chilly in the mornings and the sun goes down noticeably earlier, I’m wearing socks and sweatshirts and went to a football game on Friday night. Yes, fall is definitely here. And I love it. Now that fall is here I have a free pass to break out all of my saved pumpkin recipes without feeling the need to justify myself to everyone. I can burn my pumpkin-spice scented candles, buy apples and cinnamon in bulk and keep pumpkin-spice lattes on tap.…
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Smith Island Cake
Sometimes, I love long, time-consuming recipes that I can work on a little bit at a time over the course of a day or two. I tend to over-book myself sometimes, so I frequently find myself baking against a deadline – which is fine and definitely keeps me on task – but occasionally, it’s nice to bake at a slow, leisurely pace. This is the perfect cake for a long day of baking. While I could have done the whole thing in a couple of…
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Chocolate & Coconut Cream Cupcakes
My days as a morning person are numbered. Every year about this time, when the overnight temperature starts to drop and it’s still dark in the morning when I get out of bed – that’s about the time I that stop jumping up eager to face the day. My girls are the same way, it seems. My mornings are slowly shifting from wide-eyed, happy, smiling little girls to grumpy, piddling, sleepy-heads who have to be prodded along every step of the way. By the time we…
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M&M Cupcakes
Sometimes, the hardest part of this blog is deciding what to write about. Lately, my life has become pretty routine – I follow the same schedule and do the same things, week after week. It’s hard to write about interesting things when you aren’t DOING interesting things. {Well, blog-worthy interesting things, that is!} I just mentioned that fact to my husband. He told me that I needed to start doing something interesting, then. I glared at him and told him that I was going to…
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Rustic Apple Tart
I hope this post makes sense. I’m hopped up on decongestant and coffee at the moment, so my brain is working much, much faster than my fingers. I’ve had a cold for the past few days, so I haven’t felt like doing much of anything. I really don’t get sick very often, but when I do, I’m the biggest baby that ever lived. When I get colds like this, I don’t want to eat anything; which I realize is not conducive to healing, so I…
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Peanut Butter Cups
Since I’ve discovered that it’s insanely easy to make your own peanut butter, I’ve gone a bit crazy with it. I had four jars in my pantry, and while we do go through a lot of peanut butter, it would be awhile before we could make a dent in that. Cue the peanut butter desserts. Wait, scratch that. Cue the easy, no-bake peanut butter desserts with only four ingredients! Seriously, can’t beat that! The most difficult thing about this recipe is melting the chocolate. If…
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Homemade Ding Dongs
Me and my big ideas, right? Sometimes, there’s a reason that desserts are mass-produced in huge factories with their fancy ding-dong shaping machines and magical ding-dong dipping pools full of chocolate. They probably even have their own version of Oompa-Loompas, perfectly injecting each one with just the right amount of marshmallow cream. I just have little old me. And a three-year-old helper – who happens to love marshmallow cream – and ALWAYS, ALWAYS manages to drop a spoon, beater or spatula dipped in the stuff…
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Lemon Pound Cake & A Giveaway
On most Saturday mornings, I take my oldest to dance class. During her class, my youngest daughter and I venture off to a nearby shopping center and take care of our weekly household shopping. We wander around, looking at toys, books, kitchen goodies and then pick up a few necessities before heading back to the dance studio. In this particular shopping center, there happens to be a Starbucks, which always seems like a fabulous idea on a busy Saturday morning. My youngest, who is three…
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New York Style Cheesecake
If it were up to me, I probably wouldn’t post this recipe. I’ve made it twice now, and truth be told, I just didn’t like it that much. But I’m pretty sure it was just me. My family loved it. They all looked at me like I was nuts and rolled their eyes (as they always do when they think I’m just been too critical of my treats) when I told them I didn’t love it. My husband, who doesn’t like cheesecake all that much…
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Milk & Cookies Cupcakes
Let me tell you a little bit about my weekends. First of all, my husband works on the weekends. While his shift varies, he’s usually out of the house most of the day on Saturdays and Sundays. This means that all housework, discipline, errands and social events are all on me. And, that’s totally fine, it’s what I signed up for and I’m perfectly ok with it. We make it work, and most weekends are full of more fun activities than chores, anyway. But occasionally,…
