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Chocolate Marble Cheesecake
Cheesecake and I have a love-hate relationship. I love to eat it, but hate to make it. I have never, ever had much luck making a successful cheesecake. I’d make one that tasted amazing, but was flat, or cracked, or fell apart. Or, I’d make a pretty one that of course, was bland or the wrong texture. It got so bad that I pretty much gave up on them altogether. But, you know me. For some reason, I just can’t let things go. My husband…
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Baked Cinnamon French Toast
Welp, the Christmas Tree is packed away, decorations are down, the Christmas music is over until next year, and the girls go back to school tomorrow. The days of staying up too late and sleeping in are in the past, and the countdown to summer has started. Seriously, is it summer yet? I’m over the cold. It’s all fun and games until the Christmas decorations come down, and then it’s just cold. And cold without Christmas is no fun AT. ALL. But – bright side…
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A Rainbow Party
Last weekend we celebrated my daughter’s and niece’s 4th birthday with a Rainbow party. They’ve been talking about it forever, pretty much since the day after their Princess Party last year. We were a bit hurried, especially after we ate dinner because the weather was supposed to get bad, and everyone kind of left in a mad rush to beat the storms. As usual, I focused the decoration for the party around my dessert table. A simple white table cloth allowed the rainbow colors to…
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Ham & Cheese Pretzel Bites
I think I have a new favorite party food. Seriously, these are amazing. As usual, my husband was my taste-tester, and his review was, “Um, yeah – I could eat like, 500 of those.” And I have to agree. If I wasn’t saving them to serve at my brother’s graduation party, we might have polished off the whole tray. I just made them again to serve at our family 4th of July bash, and they went VERY quickly. They taste like the best soft-pretzel you’ve ever…
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Anniversary Party
This past weekend, my siblings and I were honored to host a party celebrating our parent’s 40 years of marriage. We invited friends, family, co-workers, old neighbors – you name it. Even though it was a holiday weekend, we were happy to host over 80 people. Today’s blog post isn’t about food – although the food was pretty tasty – and it’s not about dessert – even though I made 12 dozen cupcakes. Today’s post is about family and friends and a lifetime built on…
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Pumpkin Crumb Cake: A Throwback
Hi everyone! Starting today (!) I am going to use Thursdays to bring back some of my favorites from the archives from Lemon Sugar. This Pumpkin Crumb Cake is still a favorite of ours, and I haven’t tweaked the recipe a bit. Do yourself a favor and make this, STAT! Enjoy! ♥ So yeah, this is another pumpkin cake. And yeah, I thought I had sworn off pumpkin recipes for at least a week or two, but as it turns out I was pretty…
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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…
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Sugar Cookie Bars
****I’m on Facebook! Click {here} to follow along, and Welcome!**** Last weekend I had big plans to make sugar cookies for a friend of mine, but I ran out of time. I made the dough but knew if I baked them that I wouldn’t have time to decorate them. Instead, I wrapped up the dough and froze it for future use. Well, turns out I couldn’t stand having cookie dough in my freezer. I wanted to use it. So I did. So there. There’s a…
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Slow Cooker Apple-Cinnamon Steel-Cut Oatmeal
If there’s one meal of the day that I’m really bad at, it’s breakfast. For one, I’m not a morning person at all. I like to sip on my coffee for at least an hour before I eat breakfast, but on weekday mornings, that’s just not an option. The first-grader has to eat breakfast just 20 minutes after she rolls out of bed, and she never, ever wants anything easy – she always wants pancakes, waffles, french toast…cereal is always frowned upon, as are toast,…
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Apple Frangipane Tart
I’m so fancy. Ok, not really. Not at all, actually. But if I was, this is tart that would prove it. Guys, this tart is amazing. Apples, almond filling, shortbread crust. So, so good. The apples are juicy and sweet, the frangipane apple custard is firm and creamy, and the crust is thick and soft. I’m not sure how it gets any better. Frangipane is a baked almond cream. It’s much like a custard – maybe a bit more firm, but it has that lovely…
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Carrot Cake
This is the second time this carrot cake has appeared on Lemon Sugar, for two reasons. One, it’s fan-freaking-tasticly the best carrot cake ever known to mankind. It just is. Everyone who tries it says so. And I’m not bragging, because it’s not my recipe, but holy cow is it delicious. The second reason it’s making another appearance is because my first photos were horrendous. Bad lighting, bad frosting job, bad everything. I was determined to make this humble looking cake look photo-worthy, and I’m…
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Valentine Love Letter Cupcakes
Wizard of Oz. The Grinch Stole Christmas. Wizard of Oz. The Grinch Stole Christmas. WIZARD OF OZ WIZARD OF OZ WIZARD OF OZ. My three year old is on a kick. She only wants to watch WIZARD OF OZ and THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS.
