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I discovered this recipe a few years ago, while looking for a Mexican dessert for a dinner party we were having, and it has made many repeat performances since then. I am not a big fan of cookie recipes that involve rolling or cutting, which is one of the reasons I don’t make this recipe […]

One of our neighbors celebrated her birthday on St. Patrick’s Day.  I wanted to bake her something to celebrate, but couldn’t decide what to make.  So many recipes, so much indecision.  First I was thinking of cupcakes, but then decided to go an entirely different direction, ending up with Best Ever Bourbon Brownies, a tried […]

I tend to be pretty picky with my sweets; I just happen to prefer salty over sweet.  The Husband?  Even more so.  I can probably count on one hand the desserts he will gravitate towards.  When I make one of the “chosen few,” he will demolish them with reckless abandon.  Last weekend, I made one […]

It is certainly no secret that I love cupcakes, and with a five-year-old son, any time I have a craving, we can make a batch and send the rest into school with him. Trust me, the sooner the temptation is out of the house, the better. Recently, the folks at AOL Food put together their […]

Gale Gand is one busy woman.  Besides being the pastry chef at Tramonto’s Steak & Seafood, Osteria di Tramonto, RT Lounge, Gale’s Coffee Bar and Tru (all luckily located in the same town of Wheeling, IL), she is also a popular cookbook author and host of Sweet Dreams on the Food Network.  To say she […]

Recently, our overly observant 5-year-old noticed that Mommy hadn’t made dessert in like forever. Kudos to him for even paying attention to such things, and since he cares, you know I had to rectify that asap. Luckily I had already planned to make homemade cupcakes for our recent New Years’ Eve festivities, so he didn’t have […]

Say THAT three times fast!  My five-year-old son and I now have a standing date to bake something at least once a week.  He loves to help out in the kitchen, and with the recent holidays and other general craziness, we haven’t been doing it as much lately.  Today I spied a recipe for Peanut […]

With the school year only half over, there are still plenty of bake sales in our not-too-distant future.  When baking something to contribute to a bake sale, I usually keep it simple and stick with favorites like cupcakes, cookies and brownies.  After all, kids gravitate towards what they know and recognize - this is not […]

The other day I was catching up on a few of the regular food blogs I read, Susan’s Farmgirl Fare being one of them. Truth be told, I don’t get to visit as many as I’d like to regularly, but the lure of the impossibly cute animals on Susan’s farm is nearly too much to […]

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