‘Midnight’ Crackles

Get it?  Midnight?  Great recipe for New Years, don’t you think? This picture actually doesn’t quite capture the correct color.  They are super dark.  Like…midnight dark:) Actually, these cookies are fantastic just about anytime of the year, even though I usually make them around the holidays.  They are a wonderful contribution to…

Hot Chocolate #2-Chocolate Chai

It has been raining here.  A lot.  And for days.  It is wet, damp, drippy, grey, dark, cloudy, and frankly a little sad.  My kids have colds and I am not feeling too hot myself.  Naturally, I have been living off of hot chocolate. As previously mentioned in the post Hot Chocolate #1, I…

Peppermint Chocolate Chip Cookies

OK.  So you know how I kind of avoid the recipes that include boxed ingredients because I would rather just make them from scratch?  Yeah.  Well that still stands.  I like to cook and bake from scratch and truly believe that it just tastes better that way.  Of course, as I have said…

Bon Bons

I still have the Roasted Shrimp Cocktail recipes from the party to share with you, but I haven’t posted a sweet recipe in nearly a week!  For shame!  This is the holiday season after all!  Not every recipe this month will be rich, indulgent, or a cookie, but…well…some of them need to be,…

Chocolate Croissant Bread Pudding & Breaking The Rules

Well, it is my own personal rule so I guess I can break it if I want to, right? I am referring to my rule about not posting two dessert recipes in a row.  I like variety when I am in the kitchen and since baking and sweets only accounts for 50%…

Spice Muffins W/Pumpkin, Chocolate, & Streusal

I had every intention of posting this yesterday.  Or even the day before that.  I don’t like it when this much time passes between posts. But my Internet was down.  For yesterday and most of today actually.  And I was pretty sick yesterday.  And tired.  And kinda cold.  So I wasn’t that…

Double Chocolate Banana Bread

I often struggle to come up with the correct words to make you understand just how good a recipe is.  Granted, ALL of the recipes I post here are good or I would not actually pass them along to you.  That is the whole point of this, right?  I test and search…

Chocolate Zucchini Bread

Just a quick entry to pass this recipe along.  So here it is!  I promised you a recipe for Chocolate Zucchini bread, and this gal delivers.  Yes, this tastes a lot like cake, but because it is baked in a loaf pan and very much resembles the other zucchini bread recipes you…

Quick & Easy Cocoa Cake

OK.  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.  I don’t like to post two sweet recipes in a row.  Mainly because, while chocolate and sugar taste good, it isn’t what feeds us and our families.  Easy, healthy (uh…usually…) and balanced foods are what we all need the majority of the time.  If…

Keebler Cracker Bars

There are two things I am most grateful for when it comes to my mother-in-law.  One is giving birth to, and raising, the best man I ever met.  The second?  These bars. If there ever was a recipe that she is known for, this is it.  This is no ordinary bar, my friend! …

Oatmeal Cherry Chocolate Chunk Cookies

OK.  So, I am having a bit of a hard time posting this recipe.  Actually, for several reasons.  Two.  Two reasons. First off, there is a good chance that most of you out there already have a tried and true oatmeal chocolate chip cookie recipe.  It is a fairly common combo after all. …

Chocolate Chip Cherry Snack Cake

You may have noticed that the ingredients I have been using lately are all widely available at your local farmers market- i.e. in season.  There is a reason for that.  First of all, availability.  As with today’s recipe, you can’t get fresh cherries year round, so if you are going to bake with them,…

Chocolate Chip Blonde Brownies: Memories

So..these are Chocolate Chip Blonde Brownies.  Okay.  Commence with drooling, yearning, longing, and dreaming about these wonderful bars. Go ahead…I’ll wait… Can we continue?  Okay. First of all, I have been absent the last few days due to a minor neck injury and sitting at a computer was, and is, sorta painful. …

Mocha Chocolate Chip Scones

  My sister-in-law must be psychic.  I made these scones just when she requests a recipe for anything coffee flavored.  I didn’t want to waste any time posting this for her, and well, all of the rest of you that are just a little bit addicted to the brew!  I don’t blame her one bit,…

Black & White Angel Food Cake

The normal things kept me from blogging this week; internet was down, sites were down, house projects needed finishing, my husband and kids were in a race Saturday morning (in the rain no less) and life generally got in the way.  Now, it is Sunday afternoon and I have a ton of…