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Salted Pecan Turtles
I love recipes with shortcuts. Some of my favorites use premade items- boxed cake mix, instant pudding etc. While some see this as cheating in the kitchen, I’m all for it! […]
Baby Boston Cream Pies
Baby Boston Cream Pies are fancy party treat. They look fantastic, taste delicious and are lighter than traditional holiday fare items. I’ve served these at Christmas, birthdays and baby showers. Baby […]
Holiday Toffee
We have 43 days, 4 hours and 45 minutes until Christmas. Yes I'm aware it is Veteran's Day and we haven't had Thanksgiving yet... but Christmas will be here quick! This means […]
Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirls
My mom found this recipe on the side of a Cheerios box back in the 1970s. These cookies were an instant hit and my sisters and I have been making […]
Halloween Candy Bar(f) Cookies
It’s 10 days to Halloween and I have extra chocolate candy. This is dangerous because chocolate is never really “extra.” To save myself from myself, I baked it into cookies. Candy […]
Classic Red Velvet Cake
For a long time I thought red velvet was chocolate cake with lots of red food coloring. Turns out, red velvet cake is much tastier. Traditionally Southern, the term "red" […]
Grandma’s Boiled Icing (aka Fudge Frosting)
I spent a week in Spencer, Iowa with my grandma, Eleanor. Eleanor is 89 years young and raised 6 children. While she doesn’t bake as much as she used to, […]
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Pancakes
I'll admit, it's raining a little too much, but overall, I am loving the fall time weather. I don't know what it is about fall weather, but I am so […]
Really Good Brownies That Happen To Be Vegan
A funny thing happens with vegan recipes. Either people flock to them because they're so happy they can finally eat something OR they wrinkle their noses and say, "oh vegan […]
Banana Split Cupcakes
When your name is Anna (or Hannah or Jana), you expect a lifetime of banana jokes. In high school I drove a 1975 Plymouth Valiant, puke yellow with leopard interior. […]