Desserts

I had come across this recipe a while back from a great site MrsJanuary.com. It was a recipe for a Nesquick-type of chocolate syrup. We don’t use this very often, but I thought it would be nice to have around as we head in to summer (ice cream season). I just like the fact that it doesn’t contain all those ... Read More »

The other day, I picked up a whole bunch of bananas for only $0.15/lb because they were starting to brown.  That night, we had some friends over for drinks in the evening, and I didn’t have any dessert to feed them, so I searched my go-to site, AllRecipes.com, for ‘banana dessert’ and came up with this recipe.  I melted the ... Read More »

I needed a quick & easy treat to bring to our church to feed some volunteers for our church’s renovations.  I didn’t have much time, and there happened to be a great sale on cake mixes at the store, so I thought I’d search for an easy cake mix recipe.  There are a LOT of them out there.This brownie recipe looked simple ... Read More »

Prepare yourself.  This is the easiest and fastest ‘cake’ recipe you will ever find.  As the title would suggest, this is a dump cake.  Meaning, you grease your pan, dump your ingredients into it, and stick it into the oven.  You don’t even have to dirty a spoon for this!  I can’t tell you where this recipe originated – all ... Read More »

Our youngest absolutely LOVES the Cars movie.  We decided to make a Cars racetrack cake for his second birthday. I baked a carrot cake into two round cake pans.  When they were cool, I laid them side by side and cut off a small piece so they fit together (which meant we got to sample it…) To make the racetrack, I ... Read More »

I posted this recipe in December for Chocolate Crinkle Cookies.  They are delicious cookies, and so easy to make.  You don’t even need the Hershey’s Kisses on top – they look and taste great without them. I made them again last night for our church’s Alpha group.  I made them a little bigger than usual and added mint extract instead of ... Read More »

We tried ice cream cone cupcakes last year for a birthday, and they were a big hit!  They tasted great, the kids loved them, and I loved the lack of plates/forks needed!  So for our 5 year old’s birthday, we made them again.  I went with a basic boxed cake mix. I filled the cones with just less than 1/4 c. ... Read More »

I, like many children, loved eating spoonfuls of cookie dough when I was little…sooo good!  But eventually I realized that we were eating the raw eggs as part of it, and I just couldn’t let myself eat that anymore.  So when I saw this pin for safe-to-eat, eggless cookie dough, I was very interested.  Aside from just eating it from a bowl, ... Read More »

Well, the first birthday has come and gone, and my computer is finally working again, so I thought I’d share what I did for the birthday cake.  In the end I decided not to do anything too fancy since we found out with a pre-birthday cake that the little man doesn’t really actually like cake too much….  I made up ... Read More »

I’m gearing up for my son’s first birthday this week (February 22!) and while we’re not throwing a party for him (if he had little cousins in the area, or at least some grandparents nearby, I’d make more of an effort, but really, he’s a year old – as long as we get some pics of him with his cake ... Read More »