Up until my cousin’s birthday, I had never made a strawberry cake from scratch. If people want real strawberries, I make variations of shortcake. My husband also liked strawberry cake from a box when we were dating. To find the…
Diabetic Friendly Strawberry Shortcake Recipe
Tom’s dad’s birthday is in March, so I offered to bake his favorite dessert for his party. He happily accepted my offer on one condition – that I use Splenda. I’ve tried to bake with Splenda previously, and it’s never…
Mint Chocolate Cheesecake Recipe
Friday, my mom invited Julie’s sons and their girlfriends over for dinner. We had decided that my husband would be responsible for cooking steaks, but I wanted to try and figure out a dessert since I didn’t do much holiday baking…
Carrot Cake Cupcake Recipe
Last weekend, a series of unfortunate events kept me at the office almost the entire three-day weekend and resulted in me missing my grandmother’s birthday celebration. I promised her I would make it up to her though, and so we…
Hazelnut Brownie Recipe
I hope everyone had a fantastic Valentine’s Day, complete with death wishes in fortune cookies (see Steph’s instagram). My fortune cookie talked about how people were discussing me. Sounds about right. That’s about all there is to say about Valentine’s…
Katie Elizabeth’s chocolate pie recipe
First of all, do you read Katie’s blog? If not, you should. I LOVE her. (And not just because we are both remodeling our houses and trying to convince our husbands to go to Europe… although it helps to have…
Cupcake wars!
Saturday evening, my Hubs got a hankering for cake… but the trouble is, he couldn’t make a decision on what kind of cake he wanted. Since I’m someone who believes in choices… and I rarely have the time (or opportunity)…
No Bake Nutella Cheesecake Recipe!
Since we don’t have the space to entertain, my Hubs always asks my parents to host us for big events… and since I never like (plan) to go anywhere empty handed, I always offer to bring dessert. This ended up being…
