Marshmallow Fudge Recipe
Posted on January 21, 2010 - Filed Under Recipes, dessert | 10 Comments
Over the weekend, I was busy testing recipes, photographing and preparing for all the work assignments I have due this week. Among the things I had to make was this marshmallow fudge for a post I wrote for Tablespoon. (Psst! Head over there to find out how I started making this in the first place!) [...]
Read More..>>Cooking with Kids: Strawberry-Infused Chocolate Chip Snack Cake
Posted on January 18, 2010 - Filed Under Recipes, cooking with kids, dessert | 2 Comments
Will has an apron with a rocket ship on it. When it comes time to start cooking, he requests it and orders reminds me to get one of my aprons out too. Then he asks where to go. Sometimes, when whatever we are making requires a lot of measuring and stirring, we set up at [...]
Read More..>>Cooking With Kids: Chocolate Butterscotch Cookie Bars Recipe
Posted on January 11, 2010 - Filed Under A Little Help, Cookies, Recipes, cooking with kids, dessert | 2 Comments
In thinking about today’s post, I thought it was a little ironic that I wrote about getting your kids more active on Friday and am writing about sweets today. But irony aside, these things can really coexist. Afterall, raising a healthy family and leading a healthy life is not about deprivation. It’s about moderation, balance, [...]
Read More..>>Make This: Ultimate Chocolate Truffle Pie Recipe
Posted on December 17, 2009 - Filed Under Recipes, dessert | Leave a Comment
Do you have a sweet tooth? My kids and I do. Seriously. So does Shawn. We could eat cookies and cakes and pies all day long. But, indulging that sweet tooth daily with cakes and pies and cookies and brownies … well, that wouldn’t exactly be good for us, right? So we don’t. Instead, we [...]
Read More..>>Lighter Sweets: Chocolate Cereal Bars
Posted on December 7, 2009 - Filed Under Recipes, dessert | 2 Comments
It goes without saying that I love me some dessert. Pie? Yes! Cake? Absolutely! Cookies and brownies? Oh, yes please! But that love does absolutely nothing for my waistline. (Or anyone’s, for that matter.) Frankly, most desserts are filled with calories and fat. Not a good thing.
Good news though, there are lighter desserts you can [...]
Pumpkin Cupcakes with Dreamy Cream Cheese Frosting
Posted on October 13, 2009 - Filed Under dessert | 11 Comments
“Honey, those cupcakes were bangin’.” – Shawn
High praise never fails to make me smile all goofy and wide. Seriously, who doesn’t love to hear that something they made was just awesome?
These cupcakes are moist, but dense. The flavor is reminiscent of pumpkin pie, but it has notes of carrot cake too (no carrots though!). The [...]
Wordless Wednesday: Lemon Rainbow Cake
Posted on June 24, 2009 - Filed Under Just Photos, dessert | 4 Comments
Nope, I didn’t make this. Virtual Frolic made it as a special surprise for my birthday (which is later this week). The colors were so alluring and vibrant — it’s almost too pretty to eat! Flavored with lemon, it was both refreshing and satisfying. It made for a delish dessert after strawberry picking.
Mmm. Good cake.
(Want [...]
Best Served Cold: Whipped Strawberry Cream
Posted on May 29, 2009 - Filed Under dessert | 4 Comments
Strawberry season is inching its way closer and closer and I cannot tell you how excited that makes me. I loved heading out to the strawberry patch with my grandmother as a child. We would pick and pick and pick (and eat and eat and eat), red juices flowing down our fingers (okay, maybe it [...]
Read More..>>Creme Brulee French Toast
Posted on April 14, 2009 - Filed Under dessert | 5 Comments
The first time I hosted a holiday meal was about four and a half years ago. It was Thanksgiving and we had it at my house. When I think of that holiday, I think about how frantic I was all day and how it felt like I would never get everything done. I ran and [...]
Read More..>>Obsessed with Buttercream
Posted on July 8, 2008 - Filed Under Mama's baby, Uncategorized, dessert, pasta | 2 Comments
Ever since my birthday about two weeks ago, I have been mildly obsessed. Okay. Completely obsessed. With what? Buttercream frosting. The name itself just rolls from the tongue in sweet harmony.
It all started with the beautiful marble cake that Shawn bought for me. It had this delicious creamy frosting and was decorated with a firm, [...]
