Sweets and Treats Recipes
These shortbread-like cookies are sweet, chewy, crispy and crumbly and fudgy all at once! Do you ever over buy at Christmas? It happens to me every year. I think to myself “well, I’m easily going to need 75 bars of unsweetened chocolate, and it can’t hurt to have six dozen Read more…
Buttery almond shortbread thumbprint cookies filled with sweet blackberry jam. Every family has their standard set of cookies they bake each Christmas. For my family, that list includes these jam thumbprints. In fact, I just found out that everyone says these are their favorites (which honestly shocked me because I Read more…
Gingerdoodles are the perfect blend of ginger, cinnamon and molasses…all the flavors of fall in a cookie!
No ordinary chocolate cake…this cake is the ultimate in rich, decadent, over-the-top chocolatey goodness! In my mind, chocolate cake is sort of the little black dress of the dessert world. Everyone has to have at least one recipe (most of us have several), it goes with everything and it never Read more…
With no rolling or cutting out, these sugar cookies are soft, easy, amazing and sooo delicious!
Biscotti are a not-too-sweet way to enjoy a treat after a long day of cookie baking!
Dulce de leche is creamy and sweet and super simple to make in your slow cooker!
Funfetti is the ultimate birthday cake! In 1989 (which is the year I graduated from high school…gulp!), Pillsbury introduced the Funfetti Cake Mix, and birthdays were never the same. OK, maybe that’s a bit of a stretch, but it was extremely popular right out of the gate! When my daughter Read more…
All the flavors of a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup in a deep, dark fudgy chocolate cake! So today is my 50th birthday. I’m honestly not sure how I feel about that! I don’t feel 50, that’s for sure. I mean 50…50?!?! I’m literally half a century old for crying out Read more…