Desserts

Honey Cake

April 23, 2012

I was sitting in my kitchen looking at my first jar of honey and I knew I had to use it to create something amazing. I did an on-line recipe search and found myself at the Smitten-Kitchen website and the pics of her cake looked amazing! Good enough to honor my jar of honey, why [...]

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Lemon Pound Cake

April 3, 2012

I ordered this adorable Nordic Ware Honeycomb Cake Pan on-line and as soon as I opened the box I had to make a cake to show it off. This recipe can be used in two loaf pans, 10″ round cake pan, or 10″ Bundt pan. Cake: 3 cups flour 1 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking [...]

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Carrot Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

March 28, 2012

While making these beautiful and might I say moist and delicious Carrot Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting I flipped on the T.V. and Somethings Gotta Give was playing. Besides laughing out loud (I am a really loud laugher) I also had to keep wiping the drool off my chin. I love that house. I [...]

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Italian Pine Nut and Apricot Cake

March 26, 2012

I always make this for my brother-n-law Vince when he visits. Its great to have on the counter when you have house guests. You can serve this as a dessert or in the morning with coffee or tea. If you are serving as dessert don’t forget to add a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream. [...]

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Chocolate-Chocolate Cookies

March 12, 2012

These bad boys are a chocolate lovers dream! You can’t eat more than one….okay maybe two. For the candy bars, I like to use ‘Vosges’ haute chocolat exotic candy bars. They have several different flavors, yes even bacon. My hubby likes the Red Fire Bar. Its ingredients, Mexican ancho chipotle chiles and cinnamon with 55% [...]

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Berry Crumble

March 9, 2012

I always try to have berries in the refrigerator because of their health benefits. Sometimes they start to go bad before we can eat them all. I came up with this recipe as a great way to use them up (instead of feeding them to the chickens) and it makes a delicious and super quick [...]

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Mini Snickerdoodle Croissant with a Dark side

March 5, 2012

These beauties taste different from your regular snickerdoodle. Instead of using granulated sugar for the filling, I use brown sugar and I added Cocoa Powder to up the flavor factor. Of course the fact that I believe chocolate makes everything taste better, has NOTHING to do with it! Did I just hear you say SURE?? [...]

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Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies

February 28, 2012

These Chocolate Thumbprint cookies will disappear, I hide them and they still disappear! Need I say more? These are my son Jacob’s favorite cookie that I make. He was very disappointed when he found out that I was not the original maker of these delectable treats. Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies Author: Amy Stafford via [...]

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Oatmeal Dried Cherry Cookies

February 24, 2012

Dried Cherries and Oatmeal for crispy large cookie

Over the years this recipe has been requested over and over. These are huge cookies, twice the size of an average cookie. The recipe produces a crispy outside with a gooey inside and the tartness of the cherries with the sweet-cinnamon oatmeal is a marriage of taste made in heaven. Great for a gift or [...]