We decided to sell our house and move into the city. We are looking for a change of pace and quite a change it will be. Consequently, I am going from a giant kitchen to probably a very tiny kitchen. We got an offer a couple weeks ago that we accepted so it’s go time in terms of packing up … Read More
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Mini Cupcakes
Chocolate peanut butter cup mini cupcakes have a mini peanut butter cup baked in a vanilla cupcake and swirled with chocolate peanut butter frosting! Chocolate and peanut butter-winning combination in my book. My boss loves these cupcakes and asks me to make them whenever he’s needing some cupcakes to gift someone. Sometimes I make them full size, but that’s almost … Read More
7 Things I Wish I’d Known When I first Started Baking and Decorating Cake
Learning how to bake and decorate cake is tricky. Here are seven things that I wish I had known when I first started decorating cake! This post may contain affiliate links which help keep me in flour and sugar. Thank you for your support. Baking and decorating cake is one of my favorite creative outlets. It’s the time where I … Read More
Chocolate Peanut Butter Chunk Cookies
Easy chocolate peanut butter chunk cookies made with chocolate cake mix, a healthy dose of peanut butter, and studded with peanut butter chips. Great things about these chocolate peanut butter chunk cookies: I love that these cookies come together quickly and easily in one bowl with one spoon. You can whip up a batch when you have unexpected guess or … Read More
Sunday Funday
Some interesting things I found this week: I love roasted red pepper, so this soup is the perfect thing. As a girl who loves to make bread, these bread gift wrappers are right up my ally! As an NPR fan, this Halloween costume cracks me up! The thought has crossed my mind…
Whole Wheat Caramel Apple Cookies
Whole wheat oatmeal cookies studded with pieces of gooey caramel and chunks of whole apple. All the best flavors of a caramel apple, none of the mess! The caramel apple. Pretty much the most amazing fall dessert ever. Also pretty much the most challenging to eat fall dessert ever. And, if you were anything like me, you only wanted to … Read More
Pecan Pie Mini Muffins
I have a real love/hate relationship with mini muffins. On the one hand, they are lovely to just pop into your mouth. On the other hand, a recipe typically makes, oh, about a million and I am standing around scooping tiny amounts of batter into tiny cupcake wrappers for ages. This recipe, however, is designed to make minis. Only about … Read More
Sunday Funday
Hope everybody enjoyed their shortened work week. I know we are supposed to be headed into fall, but here, everything is still super hot and humid. I went to the county fair on Thursday night and it was wonderful as usual. As kids, my grandparents would take us. We would ride a million rides, the tilt-a whirl being my favorite. … Read More