Traditional lace cookies often have either oatmeal or almonds (or both) but I opted to use a different nut. These pistachio lace cookies have the same look and texture as the original but a different flavor that I personally find superior. I looked at a ton of recipes when researching Florentine, or lace cookies. I…
Are you a mint chocolate person? I one hundred percent AM. I love it, and not just around the holidays. Peppermint cheesecake brownies definitely are holiday appropriate but can be enjoyed year round. Mint cookie ice cream is one of my favorite flavors. I love thin mints, and mint Oreos, and my mom always made…
Holidays often mean special meals and special desserts. Cakes and candies and all kinds of treats. If you’re anything like me you could eat a piece of bread or a dinner roll at every meal. But some people prefer to wait for special occasions. This is a roundup of some of the best holiday dinner…
Gingerbread scones are for the holidays. Not that you can’t make them in summer, but gingerbread is very much a winter favorite. Scones are something I feel like you either love or hate. Most of the hate though, in my opinion is undeserved. There’s a lot of bad scones out there. Too sweet, too cakey,…
Savory biscotti is NOT traditional biscotti, and I am aware of this. However, you are talking to a gal who also likes to bake dessert focaccia and other creative takes on traditional bakes. Because that’s one of the great things about cooking and baking, you can be creative with flavors! What is biscotti? Biscotti is…
Mini pumpkin pies are a miniature version, perfect for serving, of my spiced pumpkin pie. I’m not a huge pumpkin person but I love a richly spiced pumpkin pie, and this is that in a cute little personal size pie. These would be beautiful for serving or putting a pie on everyone’s plate with no…
I know, you might be thinking why would I need this recipe? I am fully aware that you can 100% buy premade crescent rolls EASILY in the store. I like those, I buy them. But you can also buy biscuits or dinner rolls at the store too. Sometimes, making them is more fun and it’s…
What is chocolate fluffernutter pie? What is fluffernutter pie? What is a fluffernutter?? These are all excellent questions. Let’s start with the fluffernutter. A fluffernutter is a New England classic of a peanut butter and marshmallow fluff sandwich. Personally, I’ve never had one but I was never one for adding anything to my peanut butter…
I set out to make what many people might deem the perfect fall cookie in these pumpkin sugar cookies. I wanted something buttery and warm and spiced plus, obviously pumpkin. Pumpkin has never been my favorite fall flavor, I don’t mind it but I’m not running to get a pumpkin latte on September 1st either….
These cookies and cream cupcakes are two things, easy and delicious. They use a box mix that’s zhushed up, and a from scratch frosting. This is the type of cupcake to make when your kid forgets and you have to bake them that day or the night before. You will get way more credit than…
Everyone needs a pizza dough recipe to make some bomb ass pizza at home. Because sometimes, you just don’t have good pizza near you. That might sound just plain wrong if you live somewhere that’s a major city or suburban area. I spent a good chunk of my life in Phoenix, which has everything like…
If you say brown bread, many people will know exactly what you mean. And no, it’s not just wheat bread! Brown bread is popular at some restaurants like Cheesecake Factory and Outback steak house. Sometimes it’s called chocolate bread, because depending on the recipe it will have cocoa powder in it to help achieve that…
Corn is probably not the first thing you imagine being in a cookie. It might not even be at the end of the list. But I promise you these cornbread cookies are not to be skipped. I have always thought of cornbread to be almost sort of a dessert, especially if you add cinnamon butter….
Every year I try to come up with at least one new pumpkin recipe. Pumpkin isn’t my favorite flavor when it comes to fall flavors, but I know it’s one of the most popular. When I was looking at popular fall recipes on my site my Apple Cider Scones are pretty popular so I figured…
Caramel apples to me seem sort of like a summer thing, but I think most people think of them as a fall flavor. Apple definitely is, and caramel I think is both fall and all season. However, this caramel apple cake feels very cozy and fall like. To get a strong apple flavor, I used…