• Funfetti Cake Batter Fudge

    Shhh… Do you hear that?  Silence. It’s 9pm on a Friday night, my girls are in bed, my husband is at work and I am watching the season finale of Revenge for the bazillionth time.  I made myself a big glass of sweet tea, grabbed my favorite fuzzy afghan and set up camp on my couch. I’m not baking like a crazy person, I’m not making lists of last-minute things I need to do for an upcoming event, and I’m not even stressing about my…

  • Pretzel Dogs

    I generally don’t care for hot dogs.  I won’t go into detail, but I pretty much find them to be wrong on many, many levels.  That being said, there are moments in life when a hot dog sounds like a fantastic idea. For instance – sporting events.  Hot dogs always taste good at baseball games, soccer games, basketball games, football games…well – I suppose they are always better when they come from a concession stand. My Dad makes an amazing grilled hot dog.  He cooks…

  • Homemade Marshmallow Peeps

    You’ve had Peeps candies, right?  Is there anyone out there who hasn’t?  I used to absolutely despise them when I was a kid.  My mom loved them,so it was without fail that we always had a package or two (or five) in our Easter baskets – to me, they had a funky food-coloring taste and were always a little too squishy.  Blech. But then, at some point, we (my siblings and I) discovered two things.  One, that stale Peeps are way better than fresh Peeps.  They get…

  • Double Chocolate Cupcakes

      This year, Halloween snuck up on me.  One minute it was my birthday and mid-September, the next minute I realized I had less than a week to come up with costumes for the girls.  I had the best intentions this year, too – I was going to make them both really cute tulle-ghost costumes, order white leotards and buy white tights – it was going to be adorable. Instead, I recycled a bumblebee costume for my youngest and bought my oldest a tacky, chintzy mermaid-princess…