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…
Red Velvet Cupcakes
I mentioned a few days ago on facebook that I had leftover cream cheese frosting and that it needed a home. Well, not so much a home as a reason to continue to keep it in my fridge and eat it with a spoon. I could have froze it-leftover frosting keeps in…
One Bowl Chocolate Cake
Sooooo…the last few days in my kitchen have been very experimental. Meatball sliders, grilled chicken skewers, chocolate cake, white cake, punch, carrot salad…exhausting! My son turned 2 last week and his birthday party was on saturday. *sniff* I won’t go into the emotional details, but suffice to say that if somebody ever…
Crockpot Chocolate Mess
My crock pot has again become my favorite appliance in the kitchen. Not because it is perfectly convenient during construction. Not because it happened to be one of the only kitchen items accessible in the piles of belongings temporarily stored in our basement. But because it has been the key element in…
Hot Chocolate #1 & My Search For The Ultimate
The ultimate hot chocolate. It is true that I love tea, coffee, and a really fantastic apple cider. But if I had to limit myself to one hot drink for the remainder of my days, it would be hot chocolate. No surprise that a mocha is my favorite caffeinated drink! I have…