Here’s How To Decorate Marshmallows to add to your hot cocoa and put in hot chocolate bombs! Customize them for any occasion or holiday. When I made heart shaped hot chocolate bombs for Valentine’s Day, I added sprinkles to the bombs, but they all sank to the bottom of the hot chocolate. So, I figured […]
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Cut Out Sugar Cookies
This classic Cut Out Sugar Cookie Recipe is perfect for baking cookies with your family and friends. Make it a holiday tradition! Frosted sugar cookies in fun holiday shapes are the most popular Christmas cookies! They are easy to make, fun to decorate, and everyone loves eating them!
Gone Fishing Brownie Bites
This Gone Fishing Brownie Bites recipe has blue frosting water, fish sprinkles, and a pretzel fishing rod with a gummy fish on the line! These Gone Fishin’ Brownie Bites are the perfect summer cookies with blue frosting for water, fish-shaped sprinkles, and a pretzel fishing rod with a red Swedish fish on the line! They […]
Watermelon Salsa Recipe
This watermelon salsa recipe is so fun when served from a watermelon bowl! It is delicious with chips or on top of grilled chicken or tacos. Does any other fruit say summer as fresh watermelon does? Every summer party, picnic, and backyard cookout from as far back as I can remember included watermelon. We love it […]
Easter Bunny Strawberries
Adorable Easter Bunny Strawberries with Strawberry Carrots too! Kids will love these too-cute Easter chocolate covered strawberries. This Easter recipe is a great dessert to bring to a holiday dinner since you can make it ahead of time! Let the kids help dip the strawberries and add their own decorations! It’s a fun way to […]
Christmas Crack Saltine Cracker Toffee
This Christmas Crack recipe for saltine cracker toffee is sweet, salty, and totally addicting! Make half with pecans and half with sprinkles! We are making Christmas Crack this year along with our favorite Christmas recipes, homemade candies, and holiday cookies! Saltine toffee is a long-standing holiday favorite because not only is it easy to make, […]
Peanut Butter Balls
This no-bake Peanut Butter Balls recipe makes the perfect little treats! You’ll love the sweet and salty, crispy and creamy combination! Peanut butter desserts are always popular and even more so during the holidays along with cookies, pies, and homemade candy. We’ve been making these peanut butter truffles for years and I even make them […]
Pumpkin Oreo Balls
Pumpkin Oreo Balls are an irresistible fall treat. They are super cute and they are delicious too! Kids love helping make them. Whenever I bring these oreo truffles to a family gathering, the kids go crazy for them! But I’ve got to admit that the adults find them just as good as the kids do. […]
Carrot Patch Cookie Cups
These adorable Carrot Patch Cookie Cups are chocolate cookies filled with buttercream and topped with crushed Oreos and carrot candies. Carrot Patch Cookie Cups are perfect for any spring celebration! Bring them to your Easter dinner or make them for a baby shower.
Chocolate Truffles
Homemade Chocolate Truffles have a thin chocolate shell with melt-in-your-mouth smooth chocolate inside! Give as a gift to your loved ones. As a chocolate lover, chocolate truffles are one of my favorite treats. My kids used to call them “special chocolates” when they were little and always begged me to share them with them. Now […]
Valentine Donuts
Glazed Valentine Donuts are so cute with swirls and sparkles! Surprise your kids and let them help make and decorate the doughnuts. We made glazed galaxy donuts for my daughter’s graduation party, and since they were such a hit, we decided to try making a Valentine’s Day version. Choose your favorite cookie cutters, icing colors, […]
Breakable Chocolate Gifts
Breakable Chocolate Gifts are like edible pinatas filled with candy and sprinkles. Perfect for Christmas treat bags with a mini mallet. Last Valentine’s Day, I made breakable chocolate hearts, and since they were so much fun, I decided to make breakable chocolate gifts as well! They are filled with candy and sprinkles. Put the gift, […]
Christmas Cones
These adorable Christmas Cones have a fun surprise inside! The Santa cones, Elf cones, and Gnome cones are filled with candy and sprinkles. The Christmas cones are a great way to let your kids help with holiday baking! They can each choose a cone to make and decorate it however they want to.
Pineapple Upside Down Cake
Irresistible Pineapple Upside Down Cake is a tender, flavorful cake with a caramelized topping, pineapple slices, and maraschino cherries! Pineapple upside-down cake is a beloved classic that is popular year-round! The sweet, chewy caramel with the moist cake and the glazed pineapple slices is sure to impress.
Chocolate Pie Recipe
This easy Chocolate Pie Recipe is a crowd-pleaser! It has a rich, creamy, decadent chocolate pie filling with whipped cream on top. An old-fashioned chocolate pie is universally loved by people of all ages. It can be served at any holiday or celebration but is especially popular at Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Halloween Cookies
These Halloween Cookies are so much fun! Make Witch Hats, Frankenstein, Pumpkins, and Spider Cookies from one batch of sugar cookie dough. It’s fun to make decorated sugar cookies for every holiday, but it can be time-consuming. I have a recipe for Four Christmas Cookies From One Basic Dough that I’ve used for years, and […]
Pumpkin Cheesecake
This recipe for a Pumpkin Cheesecake is creamy and flavorful with a gingersnap crust! Top it with whipped cream and a sprinkle of cinnamon. This pumpkin cheesecake is like a combination of a classic cheesecake and a pumpkin pie. It’s so creamy and delicious that everyone will love it!
Banana Cupcakes
This Banana Cupcakes recipe is a great way to use up those ripe bananas! They are easy to make with a white boxed cake mix. We always seem to misjudge the number of bananas we will use and end up with some overripe bananas. We love using them to make pancakes, bars, bread, and now […]
Pumpkin Cookie Recipe
Here’s our favorite Pumpkin Cookie recipe for soft pumpkin cookies with crunchy sugar and sweet cream cheese buttercream frosting on top! I made a batch of these pumpkin cookies to share with some friends recently, and everyone raved about them! No one could stop at just one cookie. It’s the combination of soft, spice cookies […]
Cream Cheese Buttercream
Luscious Cream Cheese Buttercream is smooth and spreadable. It holds its shape and can be piped. Perfect for cookies, cupcakes, and cakes. There are several desserts that simply beg for cream cheese buttercream, such as carrot cake, banana cupcakes, and pumpkin cookies! This frosting will bring your desserts from delicious to outstanding.
Valentine’s Day Drinks
With these Valentine’s Day Drinks everyone gets to choose their favorite flavor combinations! Use the printable labels to decorate the cups. Valentine’s Day is the perfect time for cute puns. We used food-centered Valentine’s day cards as the inspiration for these delicious Valentine’s Day Drinks!
Mini Conversation Heart Cookies
Mini Conversation Heart Cookies will bring smiles to their faces! These bite-sized sugar cookies are a fun Valentine’s Day tradition. My mom always made cut out sugar cookies with us throughout the year for various holidays. We had so much fun baking and decorating them! Since conversation hearts are my favorite Valentine’s Day candy, I […]
Glace Icing
Glace Icing is simply made with powdered sugar, half-n-half, corn syrup and vanilla. It can be poured over cakes or used to decorate cookies. When I made the mini conversation heart cookies, I knew that I needed an easy icing recipe that I could use to quickly decorate lots of small cookies. This glace icing […]
Breakable Chocolate Hearts
Breakable Chocolate Hearts are like edible pinatas filled with candy and sprinkles. Perfect for Valentine’s Day gift bags with a mini mallet. When I was making hot chocolate bombs for Valentine’s Day, I also made some of these super fun breakable chocolate hearts. They are filled with candy and sprinkles. Put the heart, mallet, and […]
Heart Shaped Hot Chocolate Bombs
Make Heart Shaped Hot Chocolate Bombs for Valentine’s Day! Each meltable heart is filled with hot cocoa mix, marshmallows and sprinkles. Hot chocolate bombs are so much fun to make, melt, and drink! You can make them in endless ways, and Valentine’s Day is the perfect reason for heart-shaped treats.
Chocolate Covered Strawberries
Homemade Chocolate Covered Strawberries are the ultimate treat! They look beautiful on a serving platter and can be given as a gift. I shared a recipe for white chocolate covered strawberries way back in 2013 and decided that I should also share how to make chocolate covered strawberries. These strawberries are easy to make and […]
Christmas Cake
This beautiful Christmas Cake recipe has red, white, and green cake layers topped with fluffy vanilla frosting and cake crumb sprinkles! With so many Christmas dessert recipes for cookies and candy, it’s fun to switch things up with an easy to make Christmas Cake! This recipe uses boxed cake mixes to help save time during […]
Snowman Meringue Cookies
Cheerful Snowman Meringue Cookies are crunchy, airy, melt in your mouth treats. Place in a mug of hot chocolate to make a melting snowman! I love food that looks good, is fun to eat, and tastes great too. Things like hot chocolate cookie cups and mini candy houses. These snowman meringue cookies are like little, […]
Caramel Pretzel Bites
Caramel Pretzel Bites have a sweet, chewy caramel sandwiched between salty, crunchy pretzels dipped in smooth vanilla almond bark. These festive little caramel pretzel bites are the perfect combination of sweet and salty, crunchy and chewy. They are so easy to make and you don’t even need to turn the oven on.
Halloween Fudge
This Halloween Fudge recipe with Oreos is made with only four ingredients! It’s easy to prepare and looks fun on a dessert tray. This easy Halloween fudge recipe is made with only white chocolate chips, vanilla frosting, and Oreos! You can even cut it into fun shapes using cookie cutters.
Halloween Drinks For Kids
These Halloween Drinks for kids are so much fun! Decorate the cups and let them choose their favorite syrup for these non-alcoholic drinks. We love making Italian sodas with lemon-lime pop or ginger ale, cream, and flavored syrup. And we thought it would be fun to come up with some flavored Halloween kid’s drinks!
Molasses Cookies
Classic Molasses Cookies recipe with the perfect chewy and crunchy texture with the ginger and molasses flavor everyone loves. My favorite Christmas cookies and candies are the old-fashioned ones and molasses cookies are right up near the top of the list. It’s that chewy and crunchy, ginger and molasses flavor that gets me every time!