Desserts & Sweets

On your shopping list: Cake ingredients: Refined sugar – 1 ½ cups (you can also use powdered sugar as it will dissolve fast) All-purpose flour – 2 cups[...]

FOR THE CAKE: 3 cups all-purpose flour 2 cups granulated sugar 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon cinnamon ½ teaspoon salt 4 eggs , beaten 3/4 cup canola oil 1[...]

1 box carrot cake mix (I like Duncan Hines) 1 cup pineapple juice 1 small can crushed pineapple 3 eggs , beaten 1/3 cup toasted walnuts 1/2 cup melted butter[...]

1 cup flour ½ tsp baking powder ½ tsp baking soda ¼ tsp salt 4 tablespoons butter 1 cup milk – plus 1 tablespoon white vinegar 1 egg 2/3 cups sugar 1 tsp[...]

Sometime last year, I was on Instagram lamenting the fact that I was baking a cake for an event or a bake sale, and I wouldn't be able to taste-test it. Oh,[...]

Every year about this time, I start dreaming of strawberries. Sure, I love Honeycrisp apples and Clementines, but for me, strawberries are perfection.[...]

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There are a handful of foods that rank on my "comfort food" list. No, not mashed potatoes...not meatloaf. My number one comfort food is toast. Toast with[...]

We had a cool front yesterday. The temperatures were in the 60's when we woke up, so I pulled on a long-sleeve shirt and my jeans (and thought about lighting a[...]

Salted caramel. Have you tried it? Now, I'm a chocolate girl, through and through, but salted caramel has me a bit smitten. I had a salted caramel cupcake in[...]

For the last Desserts for Dudes post this year, I'm rolling out the cupcakes. Cupcakes are not traditionally considered "dude food" around here. Too dainty,[...]

You remember my Uncle Mike , right? Well, every time he visited when we were growing up, my mom would make Pecan Chewies. So, when Uncle Mike came for a visit[...]

Please tell me you do things like this, too... A friend, let's call her Cheryl , tells you about making desserts in push-pop containers. You then see a blog[...]

Brunch is a beautiful thing. You don't have to wake up early, and really, anything goes at brunch...spicy sausage & egg casseroles, bubbly mimosas, and[...]

Do you have an idea book? You know, a binder where you store all of the great ideas you see in magazines? Kinda like retro Pinterest. { Remember life before[...]