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This cake was kind of a disappointment. It's the 2nd cake I made from my newest cookbook, The Brown Betty Cookbook. The first recipe I made from this book was a sour cream poundcake and I did not care for that one either. The cookbook received such rave reviews on Amazon so I'm not sure what to think. But this cake is not bad, it's just....eh. The texture is defi
I have seen funfetti cupcakes posted on baking blogs for a couple of years now. I've always wanted to make them but haven't made an effort till now. They are simply a vanilla cupcake with lots of sprinkles mixed in. They are pretty and lots of fun! I just used a large handful of rainbow sprinkles but you can use any color you want. The sprinkles that are called "jimmi
I cannot get over how delicious these cookies are! Out of control! If you don't like a peanut butter chocolate combination, you will not like these. There is a lot of peanut butter and a lot of chocolate going on in these. I found them on a blog calledThe Novice ChefImmediately when I saw her photos, I knew I had to make them and I'm sure glad I did. Yes, these a
I know these photos aren't fantastic but I really wanted to post this recipe. With the days getting shorter, I'm having a tough time with a lighting source for my photos. Even when it was the middle of the day, it was so gray and rainy today that it was dark all day long.But anyway, these cinnamon rolls took a bit longer than 60 minutes but not by much. They came togethe
I guess I'm a little late in the game with these brownies. Why had I not heard of them till last week when people have been baking, eating & posting them for months? I knew I had to make them when I finally did read about them. The recipe below is not the EXACT recipe I used but I had looked at so many blogs that had these brownies posted that I forgot which b
This is a great recipe to use up some ripe bananas that have been sitting on your counter and the zucchini that keeps appearing in your garden! It's a super simple and completely delicious recipe. No mixer needed. Just a big bowl & a spoon or spatula to mix it. I actually doubled the recipe and it made 8 mini loaves. As you can tell from my photos, I put a super c
I have never had a Sprinkles cupcake but I hear they are fantastic - especially the red velvet ones. Jaclyn from Cooking Classy blog came up with this copycat recipe. I was not specifically looking to make red velvet cupcakes but just came across this recipe while browsing different baking blogs. Sometimes recipes just jump out at me for no particular reason. I was bor
I have posted this sugar cookie recipe before but I just love it so much that I want to share it again. If you like thick, soft, cakey sugar cookies then you will love this recipe! The cookies are delicious on their own but with the icing they are absolutely excellent. I make these a couple of times a month and I always flavor my icing with a clear vanilla. I suppose you ca
This combination of cupcake, filling & icing comes from a couple of different sources. The icing is my most recent favorite buttercream recipe from my Junior's Cheesecake cookbook (link below)Juniors ButtercreamThe cupcake recipe and chocolate chip cookie dough icing recipes comes from my new cookbookThe Cookie Dough Lovers CookbookThis chocolate cake recipe is SO simple and really delicious.&
Have you bought this cookbook yet?The Cookie Dough Lovers CookbookI didn't even know about the book till I started seeing the recipes pop up on various blogs. I had to buy it! I absoutely adore cookie dough. Especially chocolate chip cookie dough. I actually like it more than the baked cookies.This is my first recipe from the book. It's a soft sugar cookie with a butter
I love whoopie pies. I love eating them and making them. They are a cross between a cookie and a cake. Like thin little cakes with some filling in between. I realize the classic whoopie pie filling is a marshmallow type of filling but I used a regular vanilla American buttercream made with butter & hi-ratio shortening. I used a clear vanilla so my filling would rem
Ok, here it is! An AWESOME white cake recipe FROM SCRATCH!! Yes! I thought I would never ever find one. Up until now, my favorite white cake recipe has been a doctored cake mix. This cake is just lovely. It's fluffy, it's very flavorful, it's moist, it looks pretty and it's easy to make. I LOVE this recipe and will definitely make it again. I came across the rec
It's been awhile since I've made muffins. I came across an interesting looking muffin recipe on one of my favorite blogs this past weekend - My Baking Addiction Blog. I just really had the urge to make them! She put blueberries in hers but I had a big container of fresh blackberries that I wanted to use. So mine are blackberry muffins with lime glaze. Sounds good huh?&
I love white cake with white icing. It's my favorite. I have come across so many recipes for white cake and have tried MANY of them. I have a favorite white cake recipe that uses a white cake mix as the base.My favorite white cake recipeBut the other day I came across Sweetapolita's blog and her from scratch white cake looked so perfect that I had to try it. I'm
This was a fun recipe and believe it or not, very easy to make. They really didn't take that long either to make, bake & put together and I even made a double recipe. Most importantly, they are delicious. I would definitely make these again. I wouldn't say they taste like Oreos. I mean, Oreos have a very special taste & texture tha
I went to Cheesecake Factory the other day for dinner. It's so overwhelming, the number of cheesecake flavors they have there. Some of the flavor combinations sound not so good but some of them tempt me but in the end, I always get the vanilla bean cheesecake. I do like to have some sort of berry sauce on my plain cheesecake but that's it. I found this recipe for plain chee
I was in the mood to make chocolate chip cookies, like I always am. I find such comfort in making them. I can make them with my eyes closed and have tried at least 100 different recipes. I absolutely adore chocolate chip cookies. They are my biggest comfort food and favorite thing to bake. Today I thought I should try something a bit different. These are basically double ch
These cookies are just delightful! Crispy outside edges with chewy centers. Big coconut flavor & nutty oatmeal texture. I love these! My mother used to make these when I was growing up and she recently gave me her old dog earred recipe card with the faded print and asked me to make them for her.? I enthusiastically baked them...and ate them! I'm sure there w
These are so flippin delicious! I really love these and will definitely make them again. I found them on one of my favorite blogs:Tracey's Culinary AdventuresI knew right away that I wanted to make them and I had all the ingredients so off I went to the kitchen. Very easy to make and came together pretty quickly and I even made a TRIPLE recipe of the cookies. For being a tr
It's difficult to capture banana bread's yumminess in photos. It's not very exciting looking but trust me, this recipe is awesome! I found it in my Trisha Yearwood cookbook. I will definitely make it again. And if you have followed my blog in the past and have noticed my other banana bread recipes, I have to always add a cinnamon/brown sugar struesel. I tried it years ago a
I came across this recipe for yellow cake on Bakerella's website. I was intrigued and wanted to make it right away. I liked it but wasn't wowed by it. Bakerella mentioned spraying her cake layers with a simple syrup solution. That's a good way to keep the layers moist. I didn't do that and my cake was a BIT dry. Just a bit. This is almost a "white" ca
These blondies are amazing! They are easy to make, contain basic ingredients and are downright delicious. I should have removed them from the oven a few minutes earlier but I was so concerned with the middle of the pan being thoroughly cooked. But I think even if the middle of the pan were a bit doughy, I would have loved it. Mine were definitely still moist but near t
This recipe is from my latest copy of the Food Network magazine. They had a whole section on chocolate chip cookie recipes. I'm a sucker for new chocolate chip cookie recipes - even though they kind of all start looking the same after awhile. They had the following choices - cripy, chewy, cakey or crispy cakey, which is what I chose. I followed the recipe exactly and even th
These are sooo delicious! I'm so glad I chose to make these. They are a soft & chewy oatmeal cookie with a touch of cinnamon and a big pool of sweet fruit jam in the middle. They are really really tasty and very easy to make. I used 3 different jams - apricot, strawberry & raspberry. I can't decide which was the best out of the 3 - they were all perfect.&
I've been wanting to make this cake for quite awhile. Today was the day. The cake was delicious but it didn't wow me like I thought it would. I liked it enough that I would make it again. It's REALLY easy to throw together. Whenever a cake involves oil instead of butter, it's so simple. This one uses no butter in the cake - all oil. This cake is ULTRA moist.&nbs
I've always thought those well known peanut butter cookies with a Hershey's Kiss in the middle were cute. My family won't eat peanut butter cookies though so I figured I would try the idea with a chocolate cookie. I used the recipe below as a base but I didn't add the chocolate chips. After making the cookie dough, I simply scooped a ball of it, rolled the ball in the sprinkles,
This recipe comes from the January/February 2012 issue of Food Network magazine. I've made many of red velvet cake recipes but wanted to try a new one. This one was delicious. I like the fact that it has butter and also oil in the recipe. I like the moistness that oil brings to a cake but I love the taste that butter adds. I pretty much followed the recipe
I purchased a 10 lb bag of C&H Granulated Sugar over the weekend and this recipe was on the back of the bag. It's a soft sugar cookie with a buttercream icing. It's really tasty and sweet! You don't have to chill the dough, so that's nice. It's not the sort of dough you can roll out and cut into shapes. I simply scooped it out of the bowl and right onto my p
Well this is unusual for me. I made something with nuts! I had a large Costco size bag of pecans that I wanted to use up. I had bought it before Christmas but didn't get around to using more than a quarter of the bag. This recipe looked delicious yet simple. And it was....both delicious and simple. The only thing that I might, might change, would be to
This is probably the best poundcake I've ever made. Honestly, it is so delicious. I did not follow the recipe exactly as written but I really like my results so I would suggest trying it with the changes that I made. The recipe did not suggest cake flour & it did not say to sift the flour but I think both of those changes were the reason my cake had such a soft &
Oh my word these are yummy! I wasn't so sure when I first pulled them out of the oven. I thought they were overbaked because the top had kind of a crust over it. I figured the whole pan would be dry. However, underneath that crust was a very moist and fudgy crimson brownie. Really really tasty. I found this recipe on myrecipes.comThis recipe was sure easy to throw tog
I haven't baked a cheesecake in awhile. I've had 4 blocks of cream cheese sitting in my fridge for a couple of weeks (it was a good sale) and cheesecake is a good way to use them all at once. This recipe is loosely based on a recipe that I came across on allrecipes.com:chocolate cookie cheesecakeI made so many changes though that it's not really the same recipe. I just liked the
My birthday was on Friday - 11/11/11. I received this much wanted Breville Pie Maker. I've had my eye on this for quite some time and have read all the reviews on it and was anxious to try it myself. Today was the day! This pie maker is only sold at Williams Sonoma and it's now on sale for $99. I wanted my first pie making experience with my new machine
Oatmeal cookies! Total comfort food. I've been wanting to make this recipe and yesterday seemed like a good day. Of course I made some changes to the recipe but they were not changes that affected the outcome too much. I did not add pecans but added raisins instead. I added a teaspoon of cinnamon with the flour mixture.(so many oatmeal cookies recipes do not include cinnamon and I
I normally don't like to write a post if my photos totally suck but the fact is, this cake was so darn delicious that I took a couple of crappy photos in bad evening light and...well..here they are. I wanted everyone to have this wonderful spice cake recipe that I came across on the blog:The Hungry MouseThis recipe is easy to throw together and results in a tender, very flavorful, not too sp
This is different for me to post something like this. I mean, yes, it is sweet...but it's also spicy and it's bacon. I'm sure many folks are sick of the whole bacon craze going on but I never dabbled in it, so this was it. It looked easy enough and although I personally am not into bacon, or into spicy things, I have a friend who is, so I made it as a gift. And yes, it
This is such an easy brownie recipe. It's absolutely delicious. The chocolate is not super dark, but it's not as sweet as milk chocolate either. The texture of these brownies is a cross between fudgy and cakey. Of course they will be fudgier if you take them out of the oven earlier. Mine have a slighty crunchy outer crust with a soft fudgy center. They developed a nic
I was excited to try this recipe. I came across it on the blog...Closet CookingIt was also on 2 other blogs and they all raved about it. I liked it but I wouldn't rave about it. After it baked and cooled a bit, I drizzled some vanilla icing on top and that's when it became really tasty. Almost like a cinnamon roll. I definitely think it was better with the icing.The bread wa
One of my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipes is the one that uses vanilla instant pudding in the recipe. Today I tried that same recipe with chocolate instant pudding and an addition of unsweetened cocoa to intensify the chocolate a bit. These were a HUGE hit! Chocolate overload! While these were baking, it was a bit difficult to tell when they were done because you couldn't
Borders Books is going out of business, as most of you know. When they marked all the cookbooks down to 50% off, I bought both of Trisha Yearwood's books. I'm not a fan of her music but when I picked up her cookbooks and flipped through the pages, I was instantly taken with her down home recipes & simple ingredients. Of course I enjoy all of the baked goods but her dinner rec
I don't often make orange flavored treats and I don't know why I did today except that it just sounded refreshing, plus I had a lot of oranges that needed to be eaten!This recipe is off of the Crisco website. It uses oil instead of butter for the fat in the cake. I really love cakes that use oil. Although butter makes for better flavor some of the time, oil makes a light &
I came across this recipe on a blog.Hostess With the MostessIt seemed so simple and sounded so delicious. I've attempted making soft sugar cookie before and have not found a successful one yet....until this one. And when I say "soft" I mean ultra deliciously soft. Fragile, almost. They do become a bit sturdier if you bake them longer but then you sacrific the super soft tex
I've said it before. Pies are not my thing. I DO love eating them, I'm just not good at making them. Every once in awhile I think "I'm going to try again!". I see some good looking recipe and I get motivated to suceed at making an awesome pie. This newfound motivation happens every year or so. Yesterday I saw this pie on the cover of Family Circle and the urge str
Have you ever made those chocolate chip cookies that are made with the instant vanilla pudding mix? Those are some of my favorite chocolate chip cookies and every time I make them, people swoon! They turn out perfect and delicious every time. Well, this recipe is based on that one. Except this one uses chocolate instant pudding mix, a bit of unsweetened cocoa to deepen the c
This recipe is kind of a repeat of one of my favorite chocolate chip cookies recipes. The only difference is I substitued some whole wheat flour for a lot of the all purpose flour. Makes them a bit more healthy I suppose. It's never a good idea to use entirely whole wheat flour in a recipe. The general rule of thumb in to replace only half of the all purpose flour with whole wheat.&nbs
These cookies were not planned out. They just kind of evolved. I just felt like baking something. Do you ever get that urge? I do quite often and on this day I felt like baking chocolate chocolate chip cookies. I chose a recipe from Food Network for no other reason than it's the first recipe I came across online. It got good ratings and I can see why. Perfect am
There was a good sale on blueberries at Fred Myers. I bought too many. The result? Muffins. I love a good blueberry muffin. The only thing is....these were ok quality of blueberries but they certainly weren't flavor packed. The muffins came out beautiful and tasted delicious but the blueberries could have had a bit more flavor & tartness. They were a bit watery. T
This is the 2nd recipe from my new cookbook, Flour. I was really excited to try this recipe, as I am about every new chocolate chip cookie recipe I make. I did not care for this recipe. My cookies were super flat and somewhat greasy. Maybe it was the 2 things I did differently than what the recipe called for? The recipe suggest leaving dough in the fridge overni
Chocolate cake made with oil as opposed to butter always turns out so well for me. I have it in my mind that butter is better and I certainly have made some wonderful cakes using butter but using vegetable oil results in the most moist and best textured cakes I have ever made. Butter always gives baked goods wonderful flavor but since chocolate cake has such a strong flavor as it
The most difficult thing about this recipe is unwrapping all of the little caramels. Other than that, this recipe is a breeze. Three ingredients and about 20 minutes of your time and you are finished. Of course you must wait about 2 hours to cut the bars.The orginial Martha Stewart recipe called for dry roasted peanuts. I used cocktail peanuts which are a lot more oily and
