Homemade Apple Pie…filling

Okay so the filling is homemade, but I long ago gave up on making my own pie crusts, why get myself all frustrated and pissed off when I don’t have to?  Maybe I’ll have it figured out by the time I’m a grandma!  This is Tyler’s second favorite pie (blueberry is his most favorite) and [...]

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Sugar Cookie Frosting

I absolutely love this sugar cookie recipe, made it for the first time last Christmas and it’s a keeper.  However I’ve been having trouble finding a frosting recipe that
1) contains no shortening or margarine or corn syrup, ingredients I hate using.
2) dries well enough that you can stack the cookies after they are frosted
and
3) tastes [...]

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Cupcake Pops: Worth A Try

Since I have quite a bit of time on my hands this summer I figured I might as well challenge myself in the kitchen.  Bakerella’s cake pops are widely known in the food blog world and I figured I might as well give them a try, otherwise I would always wonder!  Everything was smooth sailing [...]

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Fresh Strawberry Pie

For our third anniversary I made Tyler one of his (and my) favorite desserts: a fresh strawberry pie.  It could of used a few more strawberries but we ate it so fast there was really no time to complain!  This would be a great easy recipe for 4th of July, served with cool whip or [...]

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tasty tasty robots!

I hosted a baby shower for the lovely Emily of Cast Sugar.  She and her husband gave her baby the cute nickname of “robot”, which sparked this great idea for the cake.  Using these cupcakes as inspiration, Sam Combs re-created them in both white and chocolate for Nemmie’s shower.  I squealed when I saw them, [...]

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Toasted, Sugared, Devoured

I can’t go to any kind of craft/art fair without buying these, but it never occured to me that I could make them myself until my mother in law made them last Christmas.  With our Costco membership I got a great deal on 2 lb bags of really nice large pecans and I decided to [...]

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Easy Apple Tart

I usually try to resist the temptation to flip through the little seasonal mini-cookbooks in the check-out lane at the grocery store but the Fall Pillsbury one totally sucked me in back in August and I decided to buy it.  Lots of simple recipes in there that look so pretty and fall-ish, unfortunately I just [...]

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The Welcome Wagon

In the last 3 weeks we’ve had two new neighbors move into our apartment building. We were SO HAPPY that the old upstairs neighbor moved out since he frequently kept us up late at night with his drunken arguments and *ahem* other noisy activities. We were home and able to promptly [...]

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TWD: chocolate pudding

Thanks for being patient waiting for my full write up! I was relieved to see that Melissa had chosen chocolate pudding for our TWD challenge this week. I just wanted something easy, lol. I’m trying to get back in the groove in the kitchen and focus on getting actual nutritious meals on [...]

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TWD: mixed berry cobbler

A berry cobbler was just what I needed as I’ve been trying to clear out my freezer recently.  Seriously, it was so full we had no room for ice cream!  Now that is a crime!  So we ate the last of our tilapia and chicken this week and I had several bags of berries hiding [...]

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