Hip! Hip! Hooray!  My baby turned 6 today!  (Well, he turned 6 on the day when I made this cake…that was a bit ago).  He’s my son that has food restrictions, so I make most of our food from scratch.  For sure, I make most of his food from scratch.  It’s a bummer, but things Read more

Frank Sinatra says: Love and marriage, love and marriage They go together like a horse and carriage This I tell you, brother You can’t have one without the other But, maybe the following is also true: Chocolate and peanut butter, chocolate and peanut butter They go together like a love and marriage This I tell Read more

We love Blueberry Banana Bread at our house! My boys just devour it, so when it came time to make something for the teachers at one of my son’s school, I thought about that bread. But I wanted to make it a little easier to eat than a slice of bread. So I turned it Read more

Snickerdoodles!  They’re just a great, traditional cookie, ya know?  But I often think of them as being store-bought, never made at home.  But it doesn’t need to be that way.  It’s an easy cookie to make – a simple dough, chilled for a bit, then rolled in a cinnamon/sugar mixture.  And, yet, I’ve only made Read more

Disclosure: Contains affiliate link. Read full disclosure policy. Know what’s really delicious?  Chocolate.  Know what’s even better?  Adding peanut butter to the party.  Combine both of them together in a brownie and it’s close to heaven.  If you’re my husband, you take that brownie and add a scoop (or 3!) of vanilla bean ice cream Read more

I’m just so thrilled with these!  They are the most ridiculously easy “recipe” in the world that I hate to even call it a recipe, but they are my new favorite.  Seriously, they are.  One of my favorite desserts has always been sweetened strawberries on top of vanilla ice cream.  It’s just divine.  This is Read more

It’s no secret around here that I love cookies. Chocolate chip Oatmeal Raisin White Chocolate Butterscotch Cookies Mint Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies Peanut Butter M&M Cookies But I also like cookie bars.  They’re easier in some ways, but they are still essentially a cookie in rectangular form!  Bars like: Sugar Cookie Bars Monster Cookie Bars Read more

Over the last holiday season, we had a few days where we had family and friends coming over.  Somewhere in all that, we were gonna need some snacks and desserts.  To help keep my stress levels low, I like making whatever I can well ahead of time.  (Course, I also know when to order pizza Read more

Disclosure: Contains referral link. Read full disclosure policy. My success rate with making sugar cutout cookies is 0%.  Zero.  Zilch.  Nada.  Zip.  No successes ever.  It isn’t from a lack of trying – I’ve just never been able to master it.  So I’ve kind of given up.  It’s a simple thing to go to the Read more