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Champagne Cupcakes
There’s something wrong with this picture. Right now, I’m hanging out in my living room while my kids are napping. For some reason, the movie Twister is playing on my television. I’m wearing my oldest, most comfortable yoga pants and my hair is in a ponytail. There’s a basket of freshly laundered kitchen towels staring at me, begging to be folded before they become a wrinkly mess. And I’m writing about champagne cupcakes. Such is my life, I suppose. Here’s the thing, though. These look fancy,…
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Loaded Baked Potato Quiche
So, we probably need to address my love for potatoes. I’m kind of obsessed. Mashed Potatoes are probably my favorite food. A baked potato topped with cottage cheese and pepper is my favorite go-to lunch. I always have a ten pound bag of them in my pantry. When I’ve had a bad day, my husband will cheer me up with his amazing smashed, buttered potatoes. (Holy cow, delish.) So, when I saw a mini baked potato quiche at my local grocery store deli, I knew,…
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Chocolate Dipped Cannoli Cups
I don’t like to leave my house on New Year’s Eve. I like to hunker down with my family, watch TV, eat some YUM food and make a cocktail or two with my husband. The thought of venturing out and dealing with crowds just doesn’t do it for me anymore – although I’m not sure it ever did. I love to pick a bunch of one-bite appetizers and desserts for our evening, and these cannoli cups will definitely be on the list this year. They…
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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…
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Ranch Dressing
Those of you who know my husband and I know that we are borderline, wanna-be hippies when it comes to food and sustainability. We would eat all natural, all fresh food all the time if we could, and for the most part we try to avoid preservatives, chemical additives and processed food. That’s not to say that we don’t eat plenty of bad stuff, but we’ve definitely made a conscious decision to do the best we can for ourselves and our girls. Our beehives, chickens and expanding…
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Toasted Coconut Cupcakes
I am definitely a chocolate person. Except for the occasional carrot cake, I will almost always choose chocolate over any other cake flavor. Vanilla cakes are just so…vanilla. I am trying, though. I am trying to like vanilla-based cakes. I’ve made several of them for this blog, in fact. Yet, I’m still on a mission to find the perfect “white” cake…one that will make me change my mind – the one that will end my love affair with chocolate. My wedding cake is, so far,…
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Pumpkin BTS Cake
Note: This is a throw-back post, but so popular that everyone needs to see it again. Enjoy! So, I don’t really care what you call this cake. Anytime you combine pumpkin, homemade whipped cream and caramel sauce? Uh-MAZE-ZA-ZING. My last BTS cake has driven almost 1,200,000 visitors to Lemon Sugar, and is among one of my most requested desserts in my inner circle. Inner circle? That means my family. I don’t know why I called them my inner circle. I’m clearly not Miley Cyrus. I…
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Pumpkin Bagels & Whipped Pumpkin Cream Cheese
Story time! Once upon a time, I bought my very first pumpkin bagel with pumpkin schmear at my local bagel shop. I loved it so much that I went back at lunchtime and bought another one. I tried to go back after work for another one but the bagel shop closed at 3pm so I had to wait until the next morning. On the third day (yes, THIRD day) of this behavior, the cashier said to me, “Wow, you must really love these bagels.” I think I…
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Buffalo Chicken Bites
My husband is obsessed with Buffalo Chicken. Wings, dip, tenders, pasta, even the Subway sandwich. Since I don’t eat meat off the bone, (I know, I’m strange) until recently I’d never really tried anything flavored with hot sauce. In the past year or so, since the influx of Buffalo chicken recipes and entrees at various restaurants, I’ve discovered that I do really like the flavor! A good friend of mine makes an amazing Buffalo Chicken dip, and I’m sure that will make an appearance on…
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Deep Dish Pizza
When I was growing up, my Mom owned a newspaper and publishing company. This was an awesome job for her because it gave her the flexibility to be home with the kids when she needed to. However, it also meant that once or twice a week she had to work later in the evening to cover city council meetings or hang out until the paper was ready to go to press. This meant that my Dad was responsible for dinner for 5 kids once or…
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Vanilla Coconut Banana Cream Pie
I’m pretty sure that you aren’t supposed to make cream pies when it’s 100 degrees outside…I’m pretty sure that could probably get you in big trouble in some parts of the world. But when you catch a summer cold, are stuck inside in the air conditioning with a sore throat and a fever and really need to update your blog, that’s exactly what you do. You make a cream pie. You also dip extra bananas into the filling and eat them like a fruity-creamy fun…
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Easter Candy Cookies
My girls have been begging me to make chocolate chip cookies for a few weeks now, but my dessert menu has taken me in other directions. With Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day and now Easter, it always seems like there’s been something else to make. Then, when browsing my Pinterest boards, I found these cookies that I’ve wanted to make for a LONG time, so I decided I’d made them wait long enough. Easter candy cookies! Basically, they’re really big, chewy, fat chocolate chip cookies…
