Recipes

A recipe for a blonde brownie with butterscotch chips and toffee bits. Yield: about 24 large or 48 small brownies I love technology.  I’ve tried to be pretty forward-thinking and embrace new technologies as they surface.  I’m not always..

A recipe for a crumbly grapefruit cookie sandwiched with grapefruit frosting. Source:  Confections of a Foodie Bride.  Shawnda made them for a virtual baby shower, cute idea! Yield: 15-30 cookies, depending on size Late night baking is the curse of..

A recipe for a flavored ice cream and soda drink. Source: eYe Likes Food My husband thought it would be a good idea to rent a video and have snacks Friday night.  And by snacks, he meant buttered popcorn and ice cream sodas. (ice cream + chocolate s..

A crumbly carrot cake – like cookie with cream cheese frosting. Source: Adapted from a recipe given to me by my neighbor, Cheryl, who says her grandmother has been making it for years.   Yield: About 3-4 dozen Carrot cake always seems like an ..

For some reason, coming up with a good Easter recipe to make has been hurting my brain. I bought these Reese's Pieces Eggs, which are rather fantastic and hard to resist, and I knew I wanted to use them somehow. Chocolate... peanut butter... pretze..

A recipe for a fresh and chunky guacamole and corn chips. Saturdays were made for snacking.  And so was guacamole.  I didn’t come to love guacamole until later in life.  I was influenced in this by my brother, who spent some time in South Am..

It's spring, which for us means it's time to plant... at my mother-in-law's house. My husband had a busy Saturday planned, but scrapped it all to spend the day working in his mother's yard, spreading mulch and planting the large garden she had rece..

A recipe for a chocolate mint Rice Krispie Treat made with Girl Scout Thin Mint cookies. Source: Adapted from the great idea I found at Cookies & Cups. Yield: One 9×13 pan full.  Cut them however you like. I have refrained from buying Girl ..

A simple, 5-ingredient recipe for a brownie made with white chocolate. Source: Adapted from Chocolate Brownie Recipe Yield: about 12 small brownies I am always looking for excuses to make new recipes that I have never tried before.  This one appeale..

A recipe for a chewy sugar cookie with lime juice and toasted coconut. Source: The Girl Who Ate Everything Yield: 3-4 dozen cookies I love the smell of toasted coconut.  When I realized that I would be toasting coconut to put in this cookie dough, I..