Strawberries are here!!!!! Do you know what that means? Lots of strawberry recipes are going to be coming your way! I love strawberries, but this year I seem to be obsessed with them! Maybe it’s because so many food blogs have already been posting their strawberry recipes (like starting 3 weeks ago)- and I’m jealous! …
Now that March is here, I feel like I am in a mad rush to post all kinds of St. Patrick’s Day treats, so that I still have time to post Easter desserts. Earlier this week I gave you Leprechaun Crunch, and today I am sharing a cereal bar recipe with you. This came about on …
Pretzels and caramel…what a great combination! They are the ingredients for this months Behind the Curtain dessert challenge! As soon as I saw the ingredients, I knew what I wanted to make…homemade Take 5 candy bars! Layers of pretzels, peanut butter, caramel, and peanuts, all covered in chocolate. YUM! I ended up making 2 batches of these, …
Today is the reveal day for the Surprise Recipe Swap. Each month, Jutta from Hungry Little Girl, assigns a blog to each participant. We are to choose a recipe from their blog and then we all post on the same day! This month, I was given Carol, from No Reason Needed. While Carol has a great deal of …
Recently I tried my hand at making homemade granola, so I thought the next step should be granola bars. Right? You can either nod your head or roll your eyes. Go ahead- I’ll wait!!! These granola bars are no bake and are really easy to put together. I made 2 different batches and changed up the flavors …
Here is recipe number 2 that uses your homemade apple butter! I have mixed feelings about pound cake. I like it and yet, I don’t. Maybe saying I don’t like it is a little unfair. I mean, it’s not the pound cake’s fault that it is harder for me to eat. See, I don’t produce enough …
I love caramel. I don’t love how most commercial caramel sticks to my teeth. So what’s a girl to do? MAKE HER OWN! Yeah! Ok, can you tell I’m excited here? Making your own homemade caramel is easy- you just dump all the ingredients in a large saucepan, and away we go! HOWEVER- it is time …
It’s hard for me to believe it is already April 1st! We have lots of family and friends’ birthdays, and also “other” special occasions to celebrate this month! That means April will be busy and I am sure it will seem to pass by all too quickly. I’m not very inventive when it comes to …
May 31st is National Macaron/Macaroon Day! Macaron “is a sweet meringue-based confectionery made with egg whites, icing sugar, granulated sugar, almond powder or ground almond, and food coloring. The macaron is commonly filled with ganache, buttercream or jam filling sandwiched between two cookies. Its name is derived from the Italian word maccarone or maccherone.” Source A macaroon “is a type of light, baked confection, described as either small cakes or meringue-like cookies depending on their consistency. The …
I seem to be all about the baking challenges this month! Lindsay, from Love and Olive Oil, is doing a Kitchen Challenge. This is her way of tackling recipes that are intimidating, and she is starting with homemade croissants. Croissants are made from a laminated yeast dough. The dough is rolled out and a thin block of …