Let the holiday baking begin!  I’m always a bit overwhelmed this time of year because there are a million things I want to buy, and decorate, and bake, but somehow the...

Every year when Ryan’s birthday comes around I try to do something truly different. He sees all of my baking from the brainstorming phase to pulling the end results out of the...

Pumpkin Cheesecake Layer Cake

I realize none of you will be able to make this cake for tomorrow’s big meal since I’m quite delayed in sharing my Thanksgiving dessert, but I couldn’t help share this...

Skillet Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie

Forgive me if I’m totally ignoring the fact that Thanksgiving is in a week, but I just can’t wrap my brain about that! So I’m cheating a little bit by saying...

Strawberry Shortcake Popcorn

There’s been a lot of chocolate, peanut butter, and other very decadent flavors on the blog recently, so today we’re taking things in a totally different direction. Pink popcorn! Or more...

Butterfinger Cupcakes

It’s pretty blasphemous, but despite the endless stream of Reese’s on this blog, I’ve never made anything with Butterfingers! Of course last week I mentioned how I loved my homemade Butterfinger...

Peanut Butter Candy Corn Cookies

There are several reasons I made these cookies. For one, a few years ago I discovered that when you combine peanut butter and candy corn you end up with something similar...

A few weeks ago I quietly celebrating the blog’s 6th birthday with a flashback post on Facebook. 6 years!!! I didn’t do a big post here to usher in the 6th...

Pumpkin Whoopie Pies

Pumpkin time is here! Duh, I’m like weeks late on that whole phenomenon, but I barely know what day it is now that our puppy Piper rules the world over here,...

Apple Streusel Cake

I’m doing apple two weeks in a row here because I just feel wrong doing anything else at this point. It feels like fall, it’s starting to look like fall (yayy foliage),...