I have always had a fascination with crinkle cookies but I always thought they would be hard or crunchy. Doesn’t the crackle crinkle on top of these cookies evoke hardness or crispness? I’m a soft and chewy…
Easy Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookie Pie Recipe
I have mentioned it before but before this year, I didn’t make my own pie crust, I always bought it. But ever since my friend, Suzanne, and I cooked & baked together earlier this year, she made…
Easy Double Chocolate Chunk Cookies with Sea Salt Recipe
Ahh cookies! Lindsay says today, is the day we take over the internet with tons of cookies. For the last couple of weeks, food bloggers from all over the world have been baking, testing and retesting and…
Easy Skinny! Peppermint Chocolate Chip Milkshakes Recipe
I love milkshakes. I was an expert milkshake maker at Haagen-Dazs when I was in high school! 🙂 I’ll bet you didn’t know that about me. Making milkshakes at home is easy peasy. I also find that…
Easy Red Velvet White Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Truffles Recipe
For this recipe, once again I’m participating with Land O’Lakes on their Kitchen Conversations panel along with Ree, Brenda, Maria and Sommer! It’s our fourth and final Kitchen Conversation for this year. I have enjoyed working on this so…
Easy Mini Buttermilk Pumpkin Pie Spice Donuts with Brown Butter Vanilla Glaze Recipe
I have a confession to make, I’m not a huge fan of pumpkin. I feel like I’m the only one on the planet that feels this way. But honestly, I’m opening up more and more to it…
Easy Chocolate Chip Mocha Cookie Dough Brownies Recipe
These brownies have three layers of goodness. McCormick® asked me to come up with a recipe perfect for a bake sale with one of their extracts. I have had their coffee extract for a while and have…
Betty Crocker Reese's® Peanut Butter & Chocolate Chunk Snack Cakes with Peanut Butter Frosting
When Betty Crocker came to me and told me about their new line of Hershey’s cookie mixes and challenged me to make recipes with them, I jumped at the chance. First, I love peanut butter cups! Second,…
Peach and Blueberry Crumble
Things that I love — baking, eating, shopping and shopping, not necessarily in that order! Happy Friday, you guys! I’m excited to share with you this peach & blueberry crumble that only takes minutes to put together…
Triple Chocolate Cupcakes with Pink & Chocolate Swirled Frosting
What’s going on with you? I hope these cupcakes bring a smile to your face like they do mine! By the way, do these cupcakes look a little familiar to you? If they do, it’s because I…
Easy Red, White & Blue Popsicles! Recipe
It’s almost July 4th! What we usually do for July 4th is smoke a brisket in our charcoal smoker but I think this year, I’m going to be making popsicle and slushies. It’s so hot lately! I…
Easy Funky Monkey Doughnut with Nutella - Gourdough's Inspired Recipe
A few weeks ago, I traveled to Austin, Texas and had the most amazing doughnuts (or donuts) at Gourdough’s Doughnuts. Okay, let me remind, I was going there to attend and speak at BlogHer Food. I was…
Vanilla Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake
Making a cake for someone you care can be a simple gesture to show them how much you care and love them. I know for some (maybe I’m talking to you), baking a cake seems really overwhelming…
Easy Americone Dream Blondie Sandwiches Recipe
It’s Ben & Jerry’s week– presented by Shelly and Kristan. When they invited me to join, I had to say yesss! I love ice cream, in fact, my first job was at an ice cream shop! But…
White Chocolate Pretzel Candy Bark
Today, I’m guest posting over on Glory’s site, Glorious Treats today! If you don’t know her site, you’ll love it. She’s working on her first cookbook (I’m so proud of her!) and when she asked me to…
Easy Lemon-Blueberry Mini Cheesecakes Recipe
Here’s another recipe I had fun doing for McCormick®. It’s honestly been way tooo long since I have made a cheesecake. Who doesn’t love cheesecake right? And don’t you just love mini desserts? I was honestly surprised…
Easy Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe
Happy Valentine’s Day! These red velvet cupcakes are perfect for Valentine’s Day or any day for that matter. Who doesn’t love red velvet right? When I was making my red velvet oreo truffles, I decided I would…
Easy Red Velvet Oreo Truffles Recipe
A few months ago, I woke up from a dream about these red velvet oreo truffles, yes I dreamed about these truffles. I have made them twice since then and wanted to make these again for Valentine’s…
Easy Candy Stuffed Brownie Bites Recipe
Every year one of our neighbors, Rick, has a little Christmas Eve party outside of his house – a sort of block party. Everyone comes with their chairs and a dish or two to share. We’re really…
Easy Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Bread Pudding Recipe
Ahhhhh! I have been talking to my friend, Lindsay, about this recipe for weeks and when it turned out awesome after making it the first time, I was so excited. I texted my sister in Germany and…
Easy Meyer Lemon Madeleine Cookies Recipe
The first time I had a madeleine, it was at a coffee shop. I fell in love immediately. It’s a spongy, cake-like cookie that you can dip in coffee or just eat them with a dusting of…
Easy White Chocolate Toffee Crunch Cookies Recipe
I can’t even tell you how many times I have made these cookies. I love making them for the holidays and I love having a batch of dough in the freezer for when I’m craving these cookies!…
Meyer Lemon and White Chocolate Biscotti
It’s National Cookie Day! I stocked up for this day and for the season! I bought 6 pounds of butter a couple of weeks ago and I’m afraid it won’t last through this season of cookie making!…
Easy Blue & Chocolate Swirl Cupcakes and the Buick Encore Recipe
Note: I recently put together a video on how to do these beautiful swirled cupcakes. Check it out! Recently, I traveled to Detroit, Michigan to learn all about the new Buick Encore. It’s a brand new model…





























