Daring Baker Creamsicle Opéra Cake
This month’s Daring Baker challenge was opera cake. I had never heard of nor tasted opera cake before this challenge, so I was a little bit intimidated when I first saw the recipe. Although...
Cooking Light’s Better Banana Bread
This is a great banana bread recipe. It is the one recipe that my husband bakes! He makes banana muffins about once a week, and not just because he can't stand to throw away...
You Make My Day Award
Priscilla from A Peek in Priscilla’s Kitchen has given me the “You Make My Day Award”. This is my first blogging award and Priscilla “made my day”. The award rules are: give the award to...
Lamb’s Famous Rice Pudding
April's Master Baker's challenge ingredient is vanilla. Lamb's creamy smooth vanilla rice pudding immediately came to mind when I was trying to decide what to make for this challenge. When I was just 18,...
Chicken Satay Noodle Salad
This is a great quick dinner recipe from Rachel Ray that the whole family enjoyed. The boys aren't that fond of cold salads, so I put the carrots in with the pasta for the...
Citrus Cream Cheese Pull Apart Rolls
This easy-to-make recipe takes frozen roll dough to a whole new level. Pre-made roll dough baked with a sweet, creamy orange cream cheese filling and tart dried cranberries, then topped with a sweet, crunchy citrus...
Malted-Milk Chocolate Cake
My entry for this month's Master Baker challenge is a recipe I cut out of Cooking Light magazine in 1999. My kids are not crazy about malted-milk balls, so I never made the cake....
Lighter Chicken Parmesan
A lighter Chicken Parmesan recipe. Instead of frying the chicken cutlets in lots of oil, they're baked so they're crispy and cheesy, but also healthy and delicious. Marie of "Proud Italian Cook" and Maryann of...
Pi Day – Jennifer’s Favorite Fresh Strawberry Pie
I love pie! So when I saw Kitchen Parade's challenge to make pie for Pi Day, I put it on the calendar so I wouldn't forget. Once it was on the calendar, everyone...
Coconut Cream Cupcakes with Toasted Coconut Cream Cheese Frosting
I signed up to make cupcakes for a church party this week. The recipe that immediately came to mind was Picky Palate's recipe for Coconut Cream Cupcakes. This was a recipe that I had...
Sweet Petals Coffee Cake
For my first Master Baker's challenge, I chose to make a recipe from a little cookbook I picked up at the grocery store several years ago called The Best from 50 years of Bake-Off...
Good-For-You Chocolate Pound Cake
In order to get my sons to watch the Grammy's with me last night, we had a contest to see who could guess the most winners. The winner got to choose which dessert to...
