Easy, Crowd-Pleasing Halloween Cupcakes
Halloween is approaching, and that means school parties, goodies for the neighborhood kids, and decor featuring pumpkins, apples, street signs, witches, you name it. It all makes me smile. These...
View ArticleGet Caught Up in these Spider-Web Cupcakes
With fall comes fabulous tastes and smells—especially when you’re baking! I love the combo of cinnamon and pumpkin, and this year I’m kicking the flavor up a notch by adding tangy BREAKSTONE’S or...
View ArticleReal Appeal: Banana Baking Recipes
The scent of banana bread baking in my oven is quite possibly the best aromatherapy I know. But why limit banana-baking adventures to the best banana bread ever? Perhaps you’d also like the tenderest...
View ArticleBanana Bread to Go Bananas For!
As summer ends, it’s the perfect time to reset, refocus and get back into a routine. I like to send my kids off with something delicious and filling to eat before school. Grandma’s Best Chocolate Chip...
View ArticlePot Pie the Easy Way: Chicken Casseroles for the Whole Family
Now that the kids have headed back to school, nights and weekends around here are extremely busy. Between homework and after-school obligations, I’m constantly looking for easy and quick dinner ideas...
View ArticleThe Only 3 Knives You’ll Ever Need & How to Use Them
For years I struggled to completely wrap each noodle around my fork, just like they do in the movies. The end result was never picture-perfect and inevitably, a splash of sauce would find its way into...
View Article3 Microwave Hacks for the Best Pecan Pie of Your Life
Is there anything worse than getting ready to bake and finding your brown sugar is basically hard enough to cut glass? This seems to happen to me every Thanksgiving Eve when I’m already coated in...
View ArticleThe Perfect Appetizer for Any Holiday Party
Everyone has a favorite holiday tradition. My mom would go all out each Christmas Eve by preparing a spread of appetizers that included chicken wings, bacon-wrapped wieners, cheese and crackers, crab...
View ArticleEnjoy the Flavors of the Season: Christmas Cinnamon Sugar Cookies
It’s time to start planning holiday parties, and that means delicious food to serve to all those hungry guests. Treats that are easy to hold make for more mingling, and ensure everyone’s having more...
View ArticleCrowd-Pleasing Brunch Made Easy
Love ’em or hate ’em, they’re inescapable this time of year. No, I’m not talking about shopping-mall Santas. I mean holiday guests. Extra bedrooms are quickly filling up with parents, aunts, uncles,...
View ArticleYour New Favorite Holiday Cookie
“’Tis the season for eating cookies, FA-LA-LA-LA-LA LA-LA LA-LA!” It’s that time again—my absolute favorite time of year! I love the holidays! Specifically, I love baking during the holidays. Homemade...
View ArticleCitrus Desserts to Beat the Winter Blahs
I HATE going to work in the dark and returning home in the dark. It’s the most soul-sucking part of winter, in my book. You can give me snow shoveling and heating bills and that constant...
View ArticleGet Caught Up in these Spider-Web Cupcakes
With fall comes fabulous tastes and smells—especially when you’re baking! I love the combo of cinnamon and pumpkin, and this year I’m kicking the flavor up a notch by adding tangy BREAKSTONE’S or...
View ArticleShower Power Recipes: “Naked” Cakes
Summer’s almost here, so it’s time to get naked…cakes, that is! Traditional layer cakes are going frosting-free, and the result is an almost un-BARE-ably awesome dessert for all warm-weather occasions:...
View ArticleHello, Pumpkin Cream Cheese Coffee Cake! Goodbye, PSL
Who’s ready for another delicious pumpkin-flavored fall recipe? One of the most fun things about baking with pumpkin is that it complements so many other fall flavors. Pumpkin and cinnamon, pumpkin and...
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