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Pumpkin Dream Cake
So, it’s been hovering around the 100 degree mark here the last few days. In September. I know I live in Kansas, but that’s NOT ok with me. September is in the fall section of the calendar. Once Labor Day is over with, it’s pumpkin and legging season, dang-it! How am I going to wear my Uggs, hoodies and yoga pants cute vintage boat neck tees and boyfriend cords if it’s 100 degrees outside? So, I’m officially rebelling against Mother Nature. I lit my pumpkin…
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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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Iced Oatmeal Cookies
In my mind, there are only three excuses for a crispy cookie: gingersnaps, Oreos, and a few that you can buy from the Girl Scouts. That’s it. Otherwise, cookies should be chewy. It should be a law. Oh, I guess biscotti is ok too – but I don’t really consider that a cookie, (even though it totally is a cookie) so I’m not going to count it. But even so, out of all of the millions of cookies out there, only four should be crispy.…
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Healthy(er) Chocolate Oatmeal No-Bake Bars
My girls have been begging me for no-bake cookies for a couple of months. Since we always have a million other desserts on the agenda, I just haven’t gotten around to it. But then, I saw this “heathier” version floating around Pinterest and I was intrigued. I’ve always thought no-bake cookies were just kind of too-sweet and too-messy to get excited about, but the girls love them. And I have to admit, I really like this version too. Especially right out of the freezer. Now,…
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Spiced Apple Coffee Cake
SERIOUSLY, what is with the ridiculous winter this year? If I hear the term “Polar Vortex” one more time, I just might lose it. Listen, I get that I live in the Midwest, and normally I am all about the changing seasons, but this winter has been particularly brutal and un-lovely. If it’s going to be minus umpteen million degrees, could we at least have a bit of snow? And maybe ease up on the wind? Please, Mother Nature? {Speaking of winter, I took…
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Apple Pie Cupcakes
One of my favorite things to make in the summertime is my skillet apple pie – the apple pie filling is made on the stove top in a skillet, then covered with pie crust and baked in the oven. I had some frozen pie crust in the freezer that I needed to use, so a little brainstorming brought me to this recipe – and voila! Apple Pie Cupcakes! Perfect portion sizes for everyone without the hassle of cutting into and trying to serve a pie…and…
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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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Peach Cobbler
Well, I’m back! I’ve been “offline” for about 3 weeks now. My husband and I took a wonderful, relaxing and much-need vacation to Puerto Morelos, Mexico a couple of weeks ago. And while I missed my girls terribly, we still had a great time. For the first time in nearly six years, we got to enjoy just being a couple again. No dirty diapers, spilled apple juice or Dora the Explorer wake up calls. We ate, drank, laid by the pool, played in the waves…
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One Hour Maple Pecan Cinnamon Rolls
This is officially the third time I’ve used my One Hour Cinnamon Roll Dough on the blog. There was the original, the Cherry Sweet Rolls, and now these. I think these win. These are Maple Pecan Cinnamon Rolls, and they’re fabulous. Oh yeah- and they can be made start to finish in an hour. No big whoop. YES. ONE HOUR. CINNAMON ROLLS IN ONE HOUR, FOLKS! So today, we changed it up a bit – I added some sticky-sweet pecans to the filling, and doused…
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Irish Apple Cake with Irish Whiskey Caramel Sauce
The weather was gorgeous outside today. Sunny, nearly 70 degrees, no wind – and my kids played outside. We went for a walk. We didn’t wear jackets, and we didn’t come in until almost bedtime. These things, along with the fact that college basketball tournaments are on TV and St. Patrick’s Day is a mere three days away can really only mean one thing – SPRING IS HERE! Well, almost. Still a week or so away but whatever.
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Lemon Meringue Cupcakes
This is officially my favorite cupcake ever. If you’ve been reading Lemon Sugar for a while, you realize how strong this statement actually is…I’ve made a LOT of cupcakes in recent years. There are a lot of contenders for the top spot, but I’m pretty sure that these just knocked the Fauxstess Cupcakes down a notch. Clearly, I love a good lemon cake, but something about this one – this combination of flavors – it’s just over the top perfection. The cake is SO…
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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…
