Blog UPGRADE!

I’m in the process of making some changes to my blog to make it more user-friendly and organized. Over the next couple weeks, I’ll be posting Blog UPGRADE posts to announce my changes. I have gotten a bit lazy on keeping this organized so I’m hoping these changes will help.
As my first upgrade, I added [...]

Pie + Booze = A Winning Combo!

Christmas is almost here! Nothing gets me in the holiday spirit quicker than getting in the kitchen and baking up a storm! In order to get my hands on a recipe I never tried before, I decided to participate in a holiday sweets recipe exchange on the cooking board I frequent. How fun is that?! [...]

It’s a Fiesta…

That you can hold in the palm of your hand!!
I was browsing chicken recipes on the Food Network on Thursday night and happened to stumble along a recipe for chicken empanadas from Paula Deen. Now, normally I wouldn’t even bother opening a link to a Paula Deen recipe. It’s not that I don’t like her…I’ll [...]

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Whoops! I’m about three weeks late on this, aren’t I? HA!
Okay, so I’m ever so slightly behind on blogging my Thanksgiving Day dessert. It happens. I was so busy in November that I didn’t do much blogging it all so between catching up on other yumminess and blogging new yumminess from December, I just hadn’t [...]

Use your Nog(gin)

If there’s one holiday tradition you probably wouldn’t see me enjoying, it’d be eggnog. I remember trying a taste of some at a friend’s house when I was like 11 and that was it for me. Way too thick and creamy. That was 15 years ago and up until now, I had absolutely no desire [...]

It’s Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas!

Wow! With all the baking I’ve been doing this week, you would think I was one of Santa’s little helpers….if Santa’s workshop made cookies…you know, instead of toys. Yeah…
Anyway, I got a jumpstart on holiday baking for an open house we held at work to try to recruit more volunteers to our non-profit program. I [...]

Holiday Grog

Grog? What’s Grog? Sounds kind of, sort of like something I might step in that would mess up my shoes. Ha.
Luckily, that’s not the case. It’s actually a super yummy, deliciously spicy, delightfuly warm apple cranberry drink. I thought it would be a nice change of pace from the usual cider or hot chocolate for [...]

Sugar Cookies

Sugar cookies are not my personal fave, but they are usually a crowd favorite, especially around the holidays. Had to make up a batch for the open house. I don’t think I even tried one of these (lol) but everyone loved them! I did some with just sprinkles and some with icing. I admit, I [...]

Cranberry White Chocolate Bars

When I was planning out my menu of goodies for the open house, I actually wrote down on my list “something with white chocolate and cranberries” but I didn’t have a recipe picked out. Within just a couple days Katie at Good Things Catered shared this recipe for a totally delish sounding cranberry white chocolate [...]

Red Velvet Truffles

I’ve been wanting to try these for ever!! So very easy and really yummy.
For the open house, I did a truffle tray with the red velvet dipped in white chocolate and Oreo truffles dipped in semi-sweet. For the Oreo truffle recipe, go here!
RED VELVET TRUFFLES (Recipe Source: Bakerella)

INGREDIENTS:

1 box red velvet cake mix [...]