Chocolate Peanut Butter Chunk Cookies

Peanut Butter Chocolate 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 caramel apple cookie

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

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

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Peanut butter chocolate chip cookies

Feeding people is my love language.  (Not just people, really, I love feeding my critters too).  One of my favorite things is to whip up a batch of cookies or bake a loaf of bread for a friend.  It’s my little way of telling them I love them. I read, once, of a woman who prays over her knitting for … Read More

How to Cover A Cake Board With Fondant

3 Tier Spiderman birthday cake

This post contains affiliate links that help keep me in butter.  Thanks for your support! Today, we are going to talk about cake boards.  What are they?  They are the board that goes underneath your cake so you can transport it around.  They come in all kinds of shapes, sizes and colors.  A cake board can be made from cardboard, wood, … Read More

Sunday Funday

Hope everyone’s weekend is going well.  I feel like here in the Midwest we are in the dog days of summer.  All the kids have gone back to school but it is hot and HUMID!  Like a fool, I went for a run the other day at 3p.m.  I thought I was going to melt into the ground.  Needless to … Read More