Dessert

Memorial Day Recipe Ideas

May 24, 2013 6 Comments

Memorial Day kicks off barbecue season so to help you plan your Memorial Day barbecue, I’m sharing some of my favorite barbecue recipes and some I’d like to try this weekend too.

This Memorial Day I’ll be cooking up one of my favorite burgers, Queso Bacon Burgers with Avocado Salsa. My daughter wants to make sliders instead of full size burgers and I plan on giving Cinnamon & Spice’s Easy Homemade Hamburger Buns recipe a try. Reeni’s also got a burger recipe that I need to try, Homemade Healthier Big Macs.

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Filed Under: Miscellaneous Tagged With: cooking, Dessert, food

Strawberry Cheesecake with an Oreo Cookie Crust

April 29, 2013 51 Comments

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Luscious, creamy New York style cheesecake with a crumbly Oreo cookie crust and topped with fresh strawberries drizzled with a strawberry glaze.

Cheesecake is my son-in-law’s favorite dessert. For his birthday my daughter asked me to help her bake a fantastic cheesecake. We brainstormed ideas and decided since gorgeous, sweet California strawberries are now at the market, to make strawberry cheesecake. However, we didn’t want just an ordinary strawberry cheesecake, we wanted it to look spectacular. So we paired it with an Oreo cookie crust, left the berries whole, arranged them artfully on top of the cake, then drizzle the berries with a fresh strawberry glaze.

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Filed Under: Cheesecake Tagged With: Dessert, food, recipe

Recipe Rewind: Perfecting Snickerdoodle Bread

April 26, 2013 23 Comments

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If you like a Snickerdoodle cookie, you’re going to love Snickerdoodle bread. It has a crispy cinnamon sugar topping with a sweet, buttery, tangy interior. I’ve also added another layer of cinnamony goodness by loading it with luscious cinnamon chips.

Some of my family’s most loved recipes were recipes I posted when I first started blogging. I didn’t have very many followers. I only had a point and shoot camera, and I didn’t have any experience taking food photos. When I redesigned my site recently, I updated every post with the new Ziplist recipe format which makes it easy to print and save recipes. It was fun to look back at posts I’d written years ago, but the pictures really need updating too.

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Filed Under: Quick Breads Tagged With: baking, Breakfast, Dessert, food, recipe

Black Magic Cake

April 8, 2013 49 Comments

Buttermilk and a hint of espresso are the secrets to this Black Magic cake. A moist, rich, deep, dark chocolate cake perfect for a special occasion or any day at all.

Claire K Creations is my Secret Recipe Club blog this month. Claire and I have been blogging friends for a while now. She lives in the land down under, Brisbane, Australia and we often comment on each other’s posts. I remember commenting a long while back that I wanted to try the Black Magic Cake she posted, so I was excited when I was assigned Claire’s blog this month to finally give it a try.

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Filed Under: Cakes Tagged With: baking, cake, Dessert, food, recipe

Boston Cream Cupcakes

March 15, 2013 22 Comments

A dark, rich, moist chocolate cupcake filled with luscious pastry cream and topped with whipped chocolate ganache. I dressed them up for St. Patrick’s Day, but these decadent cupcakes would be perfect any time of year.

I’ve been dreaming up filled cupcake recipes ever since I bought a cupcake corer/plunger. I thought since St. Patrick’s Day is this Sunday, now was the perfect time for a Boston Cream Cupcake.

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Filed Under: Cakes Tagged With: baking, Chocolate, Cupcakes, Dessert, food, recipe