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A collection of easy recipes for busy families, including pictures of each dish and some fun background on how one set of working parents, one teenager and one dog manage have fun in the kitchen!

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Recent Posts Tagged With 'Dessert'

Aug 12

Baby Doughnut Muffins

I'd like to introduce to you my new best friends, which are these adorable little doughnuts. I mean muffins. I mean doughnuts. They are a little bit of both...the basic batter that goes into making those old-fashioned cake doughnuts, but instead (read full article)

Dessert, Doughnuts, Jelly, muffins, snacks

Aug 05

Baby Chocolate Coconut Cream Pies

Lately I seem to be all into the little individual servings of things. Macaroni and cheese cupcakes. French toast muffins. Banana bites. So when I spied this recipe for little individual chocolate coconut cream pies on the always fabulous Baking (read full article)

Chocolate, coconut, Dessert, Graham Cracker, pie, snacks

Jul 29

Banana Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting

I do love baking with bananas. But somehow, I always seem to fall into a banana-baking rut by making the same old thing over and over. Banana bread, right? You see those, um, aging bananas on your counter and your mind goes blank except for the ba (read full article)

banana, cupcake, Dessert, peanut butter, snacks

Jul 15

Blueberry Cheesecake Squares

Now this is one of those recipes that has a backstory, so hunker down. A few weeks ago, we celebrated my parents' 50th wedding anniversary. We had a wedding cake and great music, and many many friends and family, and it didn't rain. Thank you, Lord.T (read full article)

Blueberries, cake, cream cheese, Dessert, jam, Sweet

Jul 06

Blueberries with Vanilla Cream

Blueberries...did you know that there is a gigantic poem by Robert Frost all about blueberries? Here's a teeny piece of it."You ought to have seen what I saw on my way To the village, through Mortenson's pasture to-day: Blueberries as big as the end (read full article)

Blueberries, cream, Dessert, Sweet, vanilla

Jul 01

Blueberry Cobbler Bars

Ahh, blueberry season, I love you so! Blueberry muffins, blueberry pie, blueberries eaten straight out of the carton. Blueberries, you may just be my favorite berry. And so it is no wonder that my life got that much better when I found this recipe (read full article)

Blueberries, cookies, Dessert, snacks, Sweet

Jun 20

Ice Cream Cupcakes

Some recipes are just a work of genius -- you run across them and first you think "I have GOT to make this as soon as possible," and for me that is quickly followed by "now, why didn't I think of this??" These delectable little ice cream cupcakes ar (read full article)

brownie, Chocolate, cupcake, Dessert, snacks

Jun 14

Strawberry Sherbet

I am always too enthusiastic when it comes to buying fresh summer strawberries. They just look so dang good in the market, and I pile them into my cart with reckless abandon. But strawberries are fragile little things, and before I have been able t (read full article)

Dessert, ice cream, snacks, strawberry, yogurt

May 31

Puppy Chow!

There are several things I must say IMMEDIATELY about this recipe.First of all, it is Puppy Chow for people, not puppies. It is a concoction of Chex cereal that has been coated in chocolate and peanut butter and dusted with powdered sugar, and it i (read full article)

cereal, Chocolate, Dessert, peanut butter, snacks, Sugar, vanilla

May 24

Banana Bites!

Oh, I love these little guys. Not only are they DELICIOUS, and not only do they feature fruit, so you can tell yourself they are just a little bit healthy, but they are also awesome for using up those bits and pieces that accumulate in your cupboard (read full article)

banana, Chocolate, coconut, Dessert, Peanuts, snacks

May 20

Black Bottom Coconut Bars and a Thinly Veiled Excuse

So, at some point years into this post I am going to give you the recipe for those sinful-looking black-bottom coconut bars that I found on the awesome Bake or Break blog. But for now, they are simply an excuse for me to go on for ages about the even (read full article)

Chocolate, coconut, cookies, Dessert, snacks

May 16

Chocolate Believe Cake

My blog is almost one year old now, and one of the absolute best things is all the people I have “met” by way of the emails and comments they send me here. They make me laugh and give me ideas and keep me humble, and every once in a while they co (read full article)

cake, Chocolate, Dessert, Walnuts

May 02

Salted Toffee Chocolate Squares

These quick little babies are a cross between cookie and candy, and are a close cousin to the cookie brittle I made over the holidays. Both of them involve taking a layer of crackers, laying them out in a single layer on a cookie sheets, spreading t (read full article)

almonds, butter, Chocolate, Dessert, Graham Cracker, snacks

Apr 22

Coconut Snowballs

Two things.First of all, I realize that I already have a post on the blog called Coconut Snowball Cookies. They are the ones that look like this:And they are very scrumptious cookies.But then I found a recipe elsewhere for something called Coconut S (read full article)

coconut, cookies, Dessert, Sweet

Apr 19

Mascarpone Semifreddo with Strawberries and Black Pepper Honey

The other day I posted a great recipe for crostini with lemony mascarpone and peppers, created and cooked by the wonderful chef Jessica Marotta from Campagnia restaurant, and I promised that I would follow up promptly with Jessica's recipe for Mascar (read full article)

cheese, Dessert, honey, ice cream, pepper, strawberry

Apr 07

Cashew Brittle Chunks

This is one recipe that almost didn't get posted here, because it just didn't turn out the way I expected it to. The title of the original recipe was "No-Bake Cashew Brittle Bars," and the picture of them showed these nice neat little bars. Yes, ther (read full article)

cashews, Dessert, molasses, snacks, Sweet

Mar 24

Snickerdoodles

I have a warm and fuzzy place in my heart for snickerdoodles, because aside from the fact that they have the best cookie name ever, they also remind me of my free-wheeling college days.Go Hoyas!!Excuse me. Yes, I realize they are already out of the (read full article)

cinnamon, cookies, Dessert, snacks, Sugar

Feb 26

Payday Cookie Bars

I have learned so many, many things from the Southern husband. For example: convertibles are light-years better than regular cars. Few meals in life are better than crayfish steamed in Old Bay spices and chased with Dixie beer. All the words to mo (read full article)

cookies, Dessert, marshmallow, Peanuts, snacks

Feb 23

Monster Cookies!

This one comes courtesy of my friend L, who is as sweet as these cookies. We had them at our little Super Bowl shindig recently, and people who never eat dessert (you know who you are!) ate them. People who always eat dessert ate them. People ate (read full article)

Chocolate, cookies, Dessert, peanut butter, raisins, snacks, Walnuts

Feb 19

Honeybun Cake

How much do I love my honeybun? Too much to fit into this one little post, that's for sure. All I will say at this point is, see those tulips in the picture up there? There were bunches and bunches of them all over the house when I walked in last Fri (read full article)

cake, Dessert, Kate's favorites, pecan, snacks

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