Cherry cheesecake cookies help you get your cheesecake fix in just one cookie bite. Was it you? Did you request these cookies? I got an email about a month ago instructing me to turn to page 234 in the The Perfect Cookie cookbook (the same cookbook from which my Homemade Fig Newtons hail). … [Read more...]
Mini Angel Food Cake in a Loaf Pan
Mini angel food cake made in a loaf pan for fewer servings! Small angel food cake for two! You're looking at two slices of my all-time favorite and death-bed dessert: angel food cake. But not just any angel food cake: a mini angel food cake made in a loaf pan, doused with freshly … [Read more...]
Rainbow Cake Recipe
Rainbow cake recipe for a mini vanilla cake with rainbow buttercream and gold sprinkles. We're about a month out from Camille's birthday, and we've settled on a rainbow themed girl's birthday party. We are so excited! While I'm making these easy rainbow cookies for the goodie bags, I'll … [Read more...]
Healthy Homemade Fruit Snacks (with veggies!)
Healthy homemade fruit snacks with veggies inside. If you pegged me for one of those moms that would make her kid homemade fruit snacks, then you hit the nail on the head. If you knew that I would not only make fruit snacks, but I would also find a way to incorporate vegetables, well, … [Read more...]
10 Easter Dessert Ideas
Easter dessert ideas that are cute and fun to serve if you're entertaining a small group. Spring is a little bit of a blur in my household with so many birthdays and holidays, but the one way I know the Easter bunny is on his way is the carrot cake! There's a carrot cake on my counter from March … [Read more...]
Mini Vanilla Cake
Mini vanilla cake for two for celebrating anniversaries, date night, or just for fun. As a die hard vanilla lover, this cake is a love letter to myself. It's not that I have anything against chocolate, but vanilla holds my heart. Incidentally, if you need a mini chocolate cake for two, … [Read more...]
Rainbow Cookies
Rainbow Cookies with rainbow swirl buttercream frosting for Camille's birthday party! Camille's 3rd birthday is coming up, and the theme is RAINBOWS! All the rainbows, all the sprinkles. It's times like these when I'm so glad I have a daughter, because making a cake look like a super hero … [Read more...]
Carrot Cake Cupcakes
Carrot Cake Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting (small batch recipe makes 6 cupcakes). It's carrot cake season, and my family couldn't be happier! Carrot cake was one of the layers of my wedding cake, because my husband loves carrot cake. Camille seems to love it too, but honestly, … [Read more...]
Instant Pot Spaghetti with Meat Sauce
Instant Pot Spaghetti with Meat Sauce is my latest Instant Pot Mini recipe. I left town for 4 days, and came back to a brand new Instant Pot Mini on my mom's kitchen counter. We normally discuss these kinds of purchases beforehand (and, we usually buy things like this together), but she just … [Read more...]
Healthy Mac and Cheese with Turmeric
Healthy mac and cheese with turmeric is the latest in my collection of baby food recipes for toddlers. To be honest, Camille has never had a bowl of macaroni and cheese without broccoli in it. If you start kids out this way, they get used to the 'green bits' in most things. Remember when … [Read more...]
