Chocolate Cherry Cream Dip

My husband just walked by the computer and glanced at this photograph.  He stopped, looked closer, and stated. “Wow, Babe.  That photo is amazing.”  As he strolled away, I growled under my breath, “I want to eat it…” The truth is, I did eat it.  Last week.  I snacked, dipped, nibbled, and…

Cherry Pistachio Butter Cookies

Aren’t these festive?  So pretty on a white plate!  Let me tell you about them…. Essentially, someone made a cross between a russian tea cake, shortbread, and holiday fruit cake-minus the booze.  The result? A pale green (yet mint free, for all of you who have mint aversions, and therefore avoid green…

Chocolate Cherry Almond Clusters

I have never really like almonds. Ok.  I shouldn’t say that.  Its not that I don’t like almonds, they just always seem to be in the way.  Ground up and coating my fish?  No thanks.  A whole, big, chunky almond in my trail mix?  Too big of a bite.  And for some…

Cherry Galette

The seasons first cherries are out and I am taking full advantage of them!!  I love to make this snack cake, or even these hand pies, but a galette is what is on the menu this week! If you have never made a galette before (pronounced gah-let) then you are in for…

Sour Cream Cherry Bars

At the risk of stating the obvious, I just have to mention that it is hot.  Really hot.  Pleeeeeease tell me you are all staying cool out there.  Pools, lakes, oceans, garden hose: whatever it takes to beat the heat!  Here in the middle of Midwestern farmland we are not only feeling the…

Homemade Granola Bars

At the end of April my youngest sister came to visit, meet her newest nephew, and run a half marathon.  Yeah, we like to test the physical endurance of our guests every now and then.  Look!  Aren’t they cute together? Nearly every spring since we moved to central IL my family, my husband, and sometimes…

Cherry Frozen Yogurt W/ Mini Chocolate Chips

I knew I had a winner with this recipe when my husband dug into the freezer container and filled his empty coffee mug right up to the top with this frozen yogurt.  Make no mistake.  This is tangy and wonderful and so refreshing it will give you chills.  No pun intended… The…

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. …

Cherry Hand Pies

Yes.  These are good. I am telling you this in response to the comment you undoubtedly made when you saw this picture.  Did you not just say to yourself (perhaps silently) “Wow!  Those look good!”?  I thought so.  So I am answering you, as I often do while writing, just as if you were…

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,…

Midnight Crunchies

What do you do with leftover cornflakes?  Make dessert!  No, I didn’t make haystacks (sorry Megan) but went in a different direction.  Remember haystacks?  Cornflakes, butterscotch chips, and peanut butter all spooned into little blobs?  Quite yummy.  But when you have a pile of various kinds of chocolate, all opened, you either need…