Award winning authors Cindy Mushet and Sur La Table have yet again delivered an innovative and creative new cooking book called, Baking Kids Love.
All of the recipes are kid-inspired and have been tried and tested by kids and were only included if children loved baking and eating them!  Not only are the recipes sure to brighten up the faces and fill the tummies of your kids, but Mushet and Sur La Table have created a great way for families to reconnect and spend time together.
Here is one recipe out of Baking Kids Love that your kids are sure to love.  …read more

I’ve been enjoying some yummy whipped topping from TruWhip on my crustless pumpkin pie the last couple days, so I thought I’d let you know a little bit more about the product.

TruWhip is the only all natural whipped topping with no trans fats, no hydrogenated oils, no high fructose corn syrup and no GMO’s, it’s 70% organic, and it’s gluten-free. It has the convenience of CoolWhip, but without any of the questionable ingredients.
TruWhip sent me a container of their whipped topping to try out. My son’s a big fan of all things dessert, so he was excited when he saw …read more

To tell you the truth, I’m not into peanut butter that much. A peanut butter sandwich hits the spot when I’m really starving and I need to get something quick. Reese’s piece is good once in a while too. But like I said, I’m not that fond of it.
Except today when I suddenly had a craving for peanut butter. But I didn’t want to just dig a spoon into a jar of peanut butter. I wanted something I could make with it. It’s been a while (a couple of weeks maybe) since I made cupcakes so I figured why not.
INGREDIENTS:
4 …read more

I’m starting to get into the autumn mindset: Our cooler days are just a few weeks off, and I’m already looking forward to dinners that don’t involve the grill or “cold fixins” like salads and sandwiches since it won’t be so miserable to turn on the oven!

So I’m going through and doing my annual “fall cleaning” with my recipe folder, and the one section that I pay a little more attention to is my desserts. I have a habit of printing off pretty much any recipe that catches my eye, or ripping out a magazine article of something that looks …read more

The apples from the grocery stores really looked delicious the other day so I bought a bag and decided to make an apple crisp out of them. I haven’t made in a while so I figured yesterday was as good as any. What I like about apple crisp is that it’s not as tedious as making an apple pie. Peeling, coring and slicing the apple are the only steps that take a while but other than that it’s all easy after that.
INGREDIENTS :
8 apples, peel, core and slice
1 cup of flour
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white granulated …read more

I usually make these chocolate chips accordion treats during the holidays but they’re also good anytime of the year. They are cute little treats to munch on or pair with a cup of hot tea.

INGREDIENTS :
2 sheets of foil, about a cookie sheet long
3/4 cup of butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup of mini-chocolate chips

We spied this multi-flavor cheesecake from our peripheral vision while ordering my daughter’s birthday cake at Wal-Mart’s bakery yesterday. It was just too good to say no to.

A cheesecake with different flavors. Buying this already made cheesecake is very convenient for parties where you have no time to make dessert anymore. It’s even more convenient because the different flavors will sure please anyone at the table. They can either have triple chocolate, strawberry swirl, caramel swirl or NY cheesecake flavors.

This is good to bring to potlucks also. Everyone will appreciate the different flavors and how pretty the whole cheesecake is. …read more

I had a bag of butterscotch chips in the pantry and been wanting to use it for something but didn’t necessarily want to make cookies. After a while I decided to make cupcakes. But instead of putting the butterscotch chips in the cupcakes I added them in the frosting instead. Keep in mind that there is going to be a melting process involved in making the frosting.
My recipe for the cupcake is just the basic recipe for yellow cupcakes as well as the buttercream frosting. But the latter gets a twist in the end.
INGREDIENTS :
1 stick of butter
1/2 cup of …read more

I made red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting last weekend. It was YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY. I don’t know how else to describe it but Yummy, heh. It’s not pretty, actually the round cakes were uneven but I only made it for us so It didn’t matter to us. It was still delicious.
INGREDIENTS : (Cake Recipe Inspired by AllRecipes)
1 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup shortening
1 1/2 cups white sugar
2 eggs
2 tbsp of cocoa
4 tbsp of red food coloring
2 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp white vinegar

One thing I love about Summer besides family bbq’s, pool, beaches, grilling meat, warm weather, cute shoes, etc, is our family trips to Ice Cream parlors. We alternate between Dairy Queen and Cold Stone. Tonight, my husband treated us all with a trip to Cold Stone. Actually, we can all thank my 2 yr old daughter because she said the words “ice cream” and Daddy was just happy to oblige. Anything for the Little Princess.
My ice cream choice for today was the Cheesecake Fantasy. It has cheesecake ice cream, graham cracker pie crust, blueberries and strawberries. And of course I …read more