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Cosmic Brownies {Little Debbie Copycat Recipe}

Cosmic Brownies {Little Debbie Copycat Recipe}

Cosmic brownies, just like the ones you ate during lunch at school. Only better, because they’re homemade! Ever noticed, for a kid, summer lasts forever. Fooooor.Evvvv.Eeer. The time ticked by slowly, even though your days were filled with sunshine and laughter. Occasional family trips felt like days, even though it was really only an afternoon. And you…

Coconut Bars {Back to Basics}

Coconut Bars {Back to Basics}

Coconut bars are chewy, sweet, and incredibly easy to make. Let’s get back to some basics. The bar. Put the vodka down, that’s my stick. I’m talking about delicious baked treats. Maybe it’s because I post for a food blog every day, but I often lean towards fancy sweets, complicated cakes, adorable cupcakes, and decadent…

Tequila Rose Popsicles

Tequila Rose Popsicles

This recipe for tequila rose popsicles is the grown-up answer to your childhood cravings. Creamy, refreshing, and with a subtle tequila kick, they’re the perfect poolside companion for a day that demands something a little more…interesting. Looking for the best boozy popsicles? Tequila rose popsicles are where it’s at.  They’re creamy, refreshing, and have a…

Waffle Ice Cream Sandwiches

Waffle Ice Cream Sandwiches

On a hot summer day, nothing beats a Waffle Ice Cream Sandwich. This easy-to-make frozen treat combines prepared waffles and your favorite flavor of ice cream. What could be easier than a 2 ingredient summer dessert?! Waffle Ice Cream Sandwiches are a fun twist on your typical dessert recipes. Even the pickiest sweet tooth will…

Red Velvet Brownies

Red Velvet Brownies

Red velvet brownies are a spin on red velvet cake. Moist, fudgy brownies, with a pop of red food coloring and white chocolate frosting. Red velvet cake has got to be my number one guilty pleasure. Not sure what it is, but it’s the one dessert I will not pass up – even if that…

Homemade Hostess Cupcakes

Homemade Hostess Cupcakes

Homemade Hostess cupcakes have the taste and visual appeal of the popular snack cake, but without all of the artificial colors and ingredients.  Chocolate cupcakes, stuffed with fluffy cream filling, and decorated with chocolate fudge frosting and a swirl of icing on top. Who doesn’t love playing hostess? I like to imagine one of those…

Swiss Black Forest Cake

Swiss Black Forest Cake

Swiss black forest cake is a beautiful showpiece for a dinner party, or for any reason you may want to make it. You know what I look forward to most? Those nights when it’s just my man and I sitting in the basement watching bad movie, sneaking popcorn that I didn’t want from him and mocking one…

Fluffernutter Wontons

Fluffernutter Wontons

Fluffernutter wontons are sweet, deep fried pockets of tastiness! Wonton wrappers are filled with a mixture of chocolate chips, marshmallow, and peanut butter in this delicious dessert. Remember when I deep fried lasagna and peeps (and pretty much anything else I could get my hands on) when my friends gave me a deep fryer a few…

Caramel Bacon Brownies

Caramel Bacon Brownies

Caramel bacon brownies are for breakfast, because brownies with bacon in them should always be eaten for breakfast! Today, after giving my boyfriend a full 24 hours to claim the last lonely brownie, I finished it – for breakfast. Then I got told brownies are not for breakfast. On that I call BS. Who really…

Cornmeal Pancakes

Cornmeal Pancakes

With a subtle sweetness and a rustic charm, these Cornmeal Pancakes are perfect for those looking to add a little extra pizzazz to their breakfast recipes. Listen up, breakfast enthusiasts! It’s time to shake things up with a pancake variety that brings a touch of rustic charm to your morning routine: cornmeal pancakes. Say goodbye…

Cinnamon Buns

Cinnamon Buns

The ultimate Cinnamon Buns recipe is right here, and you’re going to love it! Yeast-risen cinnamon rolls, made from scratch, topped with sweet cream cheese glaze. The ultimate cinnamon buns are definitely worth getting up for on a weekend morning. Forget the canned stuff and show off your mad baking skills with these homemade Cinnamon…

Pantry Lover’s Granola Recipe

Pantry Lover’s Granola Recipe

Pantry lover’s granola is made when you need to clean out your kitchen pantry. Use my base recipe, and your kitchen pantry’s odds and ends, to make this healthy snack. This Friday, May 13th, 2011, Steph’s Bite by Bite is hosting an online bake sale to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. I can’t wait…

Ice Cream Sandwiches

Ice Cream Sandwiches

Ice cream sandwiches, fresh and made at home! Once you’ve made them from scratch, you’ll never want to buy the boxed kind again! I got the best email the other day. It pretty much read, “would you like to sample some ice cream?” Um, yeah. Do you really need ask a girl if she wants…

Cadbury Creme Egg Cupcakes

Cadbury Creme Egg Cupcakes

Cadbury Creme Egg Cupcakes are rich chocolate cupcakes, filled with rich chocolate ganache, and finished with Creme Egg buttercream! It’s been so much fun making Easter and spring themed goodies this week. Personally, I crave savory treats more than the sweet ones, but I love the comments I get on my random posts (like yesterday’s Peeps post). I think it’s…

Peeps Gone Wild

Peeps Gone Wild

Peeps are everywhere you look this time of the year. They are sweet, sticky marshmallow candies with a colored sugar coating, and I have some wild ideas of how to use them this Easter. As you walk through any market, you know spring has sprung on February 15th, when the aisles are packed with the…

Cheesy Bacon Biscuits

Cheesy Bacon Biscuits

Cheesy bacon biscuits. Three simple words to describe one incredibly delicious, easy-to-make, impossible to stop eating, comfort food recipe. I’m pretty sure you’ve noticed that I have a large collection of recipes that are not what I would consider jogger friendly. Things like spicy taco mac and cheese and cake batter Oreo fudge. Actually, my catch…

Bacon Peanut Butter Cups

Bacon Peanut Butter Cups

Bacon Peanut Butter Cups. Yes, you read that correctly. Awesome, wonderful, crispy, salty bacon is indeed hiding inside each and every one of these peanut butter cups. They’re waiting to be devoured. Judge me, but you know you want one. I saw these little babies last week on Blog the New Black and ran to my…

Triple Lemon Cake Loaf

Triple Lemon Cake Loaf

Triple Lemon Cake Loaf is a lemony dessert that you won’t want to pass by! Moist lemon cake is infused with lemon syrup and drizzled with a sweet, tangy lemon glaze. Ever since I saw Baked I knew I had to have it. Since purchasing the first book, I have made several of the recipes…

Brown Butter Walnut Brownies

Brown Butter Walnut Brownies

Brown butter walnut brownies may be the best brownie you’ll ever eat. Dark cocoa brownies with a rich, fudgy center and crunchy walnuts. Amazing! I have seen this brown butter walnut brownie recipe pop up on several other blogs lately and it’s no surprise why, with how delicious the cover of February’s Bon Appetit magazine looked. Cupcakes may be…

Strawberry Shortcake Dessert

Strawberry Shortcake Dessert

Strawberry shortcake starts with light, fluffy cake and ends with a topping of fresh strawberries and a white chocolate liquor cream. Valentine’s day was made for desserts like this!     It’s Valentine’s Day. A food blogger’s dream. For food bloggers celebrating with someone or the ones throwing down just for their own awesomeness –…

Nanaimo Bars Recipe

Nanaimo Bars Recipe

Nanaimo bars are a classic Canadian, hand-held, no bake dessert. They have a base layer of graham cracker crumbs, then coconut, nuts, and chocolate are added. The perfect sweet treat! Have you ever been called something so out of the box that it takes you back and remains at the forefront of your brain all day?…

Strawberry Layer Cake for Valentine’s Day

Strawberry Layer Cake for Valentine’s Day

Strawberry layer cake with whipped strawberry filling between moist layers of vanilla cake and an outside edge of crunchy Pirouette cookies. This is what Valentine’s Day love is made of. You asked for Valentine’s Dy posts, well here’s one for ya. Now try and tell me those layers don’t scream love! When I first saw this strawberry…

Disney’s Brownie Cheesecake

Disney’s Brownie Cheesecake

Disney’s brownie cheesecake is a dessert served at Disney’s Boardwalk Bakery. It’s a brownie bottom cheesecake that you are going to love, and I’ve got the recipe so that you make it at home! To say my boss and his family like Disney would be putting things rather lightly. They love themselves some Disney! The…

Cannoli Cupcakes to get back into the swing of things

Cannoli Cupcakes to get back into the swing of things

Cannoli cupcakes are sweet vanilla cake filled with sweetened ricotta cheese and bittersweet chocolate, then frosted with a rich vanilla bean buttercream. Amazing! And on the 5th day, she just couldn’t take it anymore! OK, maybe it was the 4th. Who’s counting? I’m fed up with typing about being sick (really – that’s not fun…

The Best French Toast Ever

The Best French Toast Ever

Ditch the boring toast! This recipe unlocks the secrets to the best French toast, a fluffy and flavorful breakfast that’s easier than you think. Looking for the best French toast recipe? We all get stuck in a rut sometimes, same old cereal or toast getting a little, well, boring. But what if you could take…