Rich strawberry buttercream is the perfect choice to top your next birthday cake or cupcakes. Made with freeze dried strawberries to pack in all the strawberry flavor possible. What are freeze dried strawberries? Freeze dried strawberries are strawberries that have been, well, freeze dried. Freeze drying is the process of food preservation where the fruit is frozen, then the water … Read More
Peanut Butter Pie
Peanut Butter Pie is the ultimate decadent no-bake peanut butter and chocolate dessert. It only requires about 15 minutes and no oven! The perfect summer treat! Peanut butter pie is one of my favorite pies. Probably because it only takes about 15 minutes to put together and I don’t have to fight with any pie crust. Or maybe because it … Read More
Cinnamon Sugar Rhubarb Muffins
Cinnamon sugar rhubarb muffins are the perfect combination of sweet with a pop of tanginess from the chunks of rhubarb sprinkled throughout the batter! Perfect for breakfast or a nice afternoon pick me up! Do you all grow rhubarb? Rhubarb seems a little bit like zucchini in my area. People who grow it well give away tons of it. You’ll … Read More
How To Make American Buttercream
Learn how to make American buttercream. It’s easy, only requires 4 ingredients and about 10 minutes of time. Perfect for cakes, cupcakes, and cookies! What is American Buttercream? American buttercream is a style of buttercream that simply uses butter and powdered sugar. It’s a straightforward, simple buttercream recipe that requires no eggs and no cooking. American buttercream is a very … Read More
Honey Peanut Butter Ice Cream Sauce
Honey peanut butter ice cream sauce is the perfect thing warmed and poured over ice cream or as a sweet dip for apples. This honey peanut butter sauce tastes like peanut butter fudge poured in a jar. Pretty much because it is peanut butter fudge poured into a jar. Keep a jar in your fridge for your ice cream sundae … Read More
Old-Fashioned Hot Fudge Sauce
Thick, rich old-fashioned hot fudge sauce is delicious poured over ice cream, especially paired with salted caramel sauce, sprinkles and a cherry of course! Hot fudge sauce is thick, creamy and doesn’t taste plastic-y at all. It seems like maybe a little bit intimidating because what we’re going to do is make a ganache. But like an easy ganache. Ganache … Read More
Homemade Potato Bread
Homemade potato bread is an easy direct method bread made with all-purpose flour and leftover mashed potatoes. Slather it with some salted butter for the perfect afternoon treat. My family has been making this bread recipe for years. Pretty much after any Sunday dinner we would whip up a batch using the leftover mashed potatoes. It was the first bread … Read More
Homemade Salted Caramel Sauce
This decadent, creamy homemade salted caramel sauce is easy to make (only about 15 minutes) and takes only 5 ingredients. Perfect poured over ice cream or drizzled over apples! One of the great benefits of making things from scratch is that they taste SO MUCH BETTER than store bought. While I can appreciate a store bought caramel sauce because really, … Read More
Cherry Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
These cherry chocolate oatmeal cookies have not one, but two secret ingredients! Pure maple syrup to cut down on the amount of refined sugar necessary and shredded coconut to add moisture and chewiness! I kind of consider these my pantry dump cookies. A little bit of everything in the pantry mixed together creates one heck of a cookie. It seems … Read More
Easy Lemon Pie
This easy lemon pie takes less than 5 ingredients and only 15 minutes in the oven. Add some whipped cream and fresh raspberries for the perfect lemony pie! Don’t get me wrong. I love me some regular lemon meringue pie and don’t get me started on these cuties but honestly these days, my ambition waffles between wanting to make a … Read More