Category: Recipes

Do you ever feel like you feed your family way too much processed food? Or that maybe you spend way too much money on something that you could easily make??  My hubby came home from a grocery store run with a container of blueberry cream…

Life provides the sweetest recipes…and that’s how we came up with these Raspberry Lemon Cheesecake Sweet Rolls. My childhood was filled with people who really knew how to bake. My Mom baked all sorts of breads, cookies and other treats to barter for all of…

  I married a Chicago boy. He introduced me to Cannoli’s on a visit to Chicago a few months after we got married.  They looked delicious sitting there in that display case, and I was excited to taste one. Unfortunately,  the place he took me…

Banana Pudding Cupcakes… I love making cakes, but I do NOT like making cupcakes.  They very rarely bake up the way I want them to, and it drives me crazy!  So, when Caking Kid 1 said he wanted to make a Banana Pudding Cupcake, I…

  Pinterest. It can be a dangerous thing for your waistline…unless you are a growing teenage boy. That teenage boy (we’ve talked about his food obsessions before) is the very reason I’m bringing you this next recipe… Homemade Cookie Butter.  And not just ANY Cookie Butter…

  Raspberries and Chocolate…Chocolate and Raspberries…Chocolate Raspberry Cookies.  Yeah, do I have your attention now?   When you mix those beautiful, tangy, red berries with chocolate…that’s a match made in heaven!!  Makes my tastebuds do a happy dance!!  Putting that combo into a warm, thick, chewy Cookie?? Sounds too…

Harry Potter.  It wasn’t until I had children of my own that I fell hard for these beautiful books and movies.  Two years ago, I took my sisters to Universal Studios Orlando for my youngest sister’s 21st birthday.  There we entered the Wizarding World of…

When I think about cookies, the first one to pop into my head is Chocolate Chip cookies. There is nothing like a warm, chewy chocolate chip cookie.  My friends would beg me to make chocolate chip cookies for them when I was a teenager, and…

Cake Pops…do you love them? I’m not a huge fan. It’s a texture issue for me. The ones I’ve had have either been like mush or dry and tasteless.  My second Caking Kiddo on the other hand LOVES them.  A couple of weeks ago, I…

Banana Cake. It’s one of my all time favorites.  When I was a kid, my Mom would make banana cake whenever we had over ripe bananas. She used my grandmother’s recipe, and it always turned out perfectly.  As I got older, my favorite thing was…