This Toffee Recipe is a homemade version of Almond Roca. A buttery, crunchy treat with milk chocolate that’s perfect for the holidays! Toffee is one of my favorite kinds of candy bars, anything from Heath bars to Skor bars! My mom used to make Almond Roca every year at Christmas time. The whole family looks […]
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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.
How To Host A Small Thanksgiving
Here’s your guide for How To Host A Small Thanksgiving with a free printable planner including a shopping list and kitchen conversions chart. This year your Thanksgiving celebration may look a little different than it has in the past. But you can still have a wonderful meal and cozy day giving thanks for all your […]
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!
Caramel For Apples
This homemade caramel for apples recipe is easy to make with 5 ingredients! Use it to make THE BEST gourmet caramel apples at home. As long as I can remember, my mom has been making soft caramels, especially for the holidays. The last time that I made that recipe, I wondered if it would work […]
Powdered Sugar Glaze
This easy Powdered Sugar Glaze recipe has only three ingredients! It’s the perfect icing for cookies, cakes, cinnamon rolls, and donuts. We use this same recipe to make a glaze for cake and donuts, as well as icing for cinnamon rolls and sugar cookies. It can easily be thinned and thickened or flavored and tinted.
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!
Sugar Cookies Icing Guide
Here is an easy Sugar Cookies Icing guide with recipes and directions for how to decorate sugar cookies from super easy to more advanced. Growing up my mom would always make cut-out sugar cookies with us and we would spend hours decorating them. It is a tradition I’ve continued with my kids and even though […]
Gnome Cookies
These cute Gnome Cookies are surprisingly easy to make and are super fun to decorate with your choice of a buttercream or cotton candy beard. Nordic Christmas Gnomes have been around forever but suddenly this year I took notice and think they are adorable. My husband, on the other hand, says they look like biker […]
Watermelon Cupcakes
These fun Watermelon Cupcakes have actual watermelon baked inside with a swirl of buttercream and mini chocolate chips for seeds on top. I recently shared a recipe for a watermelon cake but sometimes it just easier to make and serve cupcakes than it is to serve a cake. So I decided to make these watermelon […]
Easter Basket Cookie Cups
These adorable Easter Basket Cookie Cups are almost too fun to eat! They are filled with buttercream frosting, chocolate bunnies, and eggs. Easter treats with all their cheerful pastel colors are just the thing we need after a long winter! These edible Easter baskets have a handle, buttercream grass, and festive candies.
Mini Candy Houses
Mini Candy Houses are EASY to make, FUN to decorate and look ADORABLE served at holiday parties. Kids LOVE to help make these BITE-SIZED gingerbread houses! One of our favorite holiday traditions from when our kids were little is making candy houses using graham crackers, frosting and lots of candy. Now that the kids are […]
Four Christmas Cookies From One Basic Dough
Kitchen hack for holiday baking: make four Christmas cookies from one basic dough with this recipe. Prepare the dough ahead of time, freeze and bake later! Can you believe that it’s almost November and the holidays will be here before we know it! Everyone knows that one of the best things about the holiday season […]
Thanksgiving Countdown Planner and Checklist
Hosting Thanksgiving dinner can seem overwhelming but I’ve put together a Thanksgiving Countdown Planner and Checklist with free printables to make Thanksgiving dinner achievable for everyone! As soon as you decide to host Thanksgiving you can start planning. Figure out about how many people will be attending. Write down your menu ideas (this can easily […]
Easy Pecan Pie Without Corn Syrup
This Easy Pecan Pie without corn syrup is our FAVORITE PIE and a must at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Includes tips for pecan pie problems! Southern pecan pie has a sweet, gooey filling that is full of chopped pecans with a golden, caramelized top. This pie is a much-loved family tradition.
Valentine’s Day Ideas Test Tubes and Treat Bags
Here are 25+ Valentine’s Day Ideas with FREE printable Valentine’s Day test tube labels for the test tube Valentines or use them for Valentine’s Day treat bags including candy filled Valentines, non-candy Valentine’s Day ideas, and non-food Valentine’s Day Ideas. We are a family that loves puns and Dad Jokes. I guess I shouldn’t say […]
World’s Greatest Pop Gift In A Jar
Looking for Father’s Day Gift Ideas? Give The World’s Greatest Pop gift in a jar to dad this year. It is a large mason jar filled with items that have to do with “pop”. Mother’s Day is over and now it’s time to start thinking about Father’s Day gift ideas! Since I love gifts in […]
Mini Nutella Pies
Mini Nutella Pies have scalloped-edged pie crust cups filled with Nutella mousse, drizzled with chocolate, and topped with chocolate curls. Pies are fun no matter the type, but there’s something about the mini size or the individual serving size that makes them a little more special. When I was a teenager, I used to request […]
Chocolate Mint Cake
This Chocolate Mint Cake recipe includes layers of chocolate cake topped with fluffy mint buttercream and smooth chocolate mint ganache. If you are a long-time reader, you already know how much we love chocolate mint brownies. I’ve told you about how we served them at our wedding and that they continue to be a family […]
Sweetheart Cake
This Sweetheart Cake recipe has three layers of cake in various shades of red with a whipped frosting and cake crumbles on top. It’s perfect for holidays and celebrations! It’s a great idea to have a super cute, super easy to make cake up your sleeve. You can whip it up without too much effort and […]
Hot Cocoa Cake Recipe
This Hot Cocoa Cake is the perfect thing to enjoy after a day of fun winter activities. With hot chocolate buttercream, chocolate ganache, and even mini marshmallows, this cake is sure to be a hit! The best way to get through winter is to embrace it with the knowledge that spring will arrive again before […]
New Year’s Eve Mason Jars
New Year’s Eve mason jars are an easy-to-make NYE party idea. Fill the mason jars with confetti, party blowers, horns, and Hershey’s Kisses! Christmas is over, and it’s time to ring in the new year! We usually spend the evening at a friend’s house for a laid-back evening of appetizers, board games, and laughter. I […]
Gingerbread Man French Toast
Try this Gingerbread Man French Toast recipe for Christmas morning or a weekend during the holiday season. Kids will love having gingerbread men for breakfast! This gingerbread man French toast recipe is something I was planning to make last year but ran out of time during the busy holiday season. But I couldn’t get them […]
The Best Chocolate Layer Cake
The Best Chocolate Layer Cake recipe has silky smooth chocolate swiss meringue buttercream frosting and a dark chocolate cake dotted with chocolate pieces. I just celebrated my birthday and I this is the cake I made myself. I’m calling it THE BEST CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE. Claiming that something is the best is a pretty […]
Peppermint Cheesecake With Brownie Crust
This Peppermint Cheesecake With Brownie Crust recipe is perfect for the Christmas holidays. The cool, creamy, peppermint cheesecake is dotted with crunchy bits of peppermint bark and is finished off with a chewy brownie crust. Although I will continue making apple and pumpkin recipes through the holidays, I am so excited to start adding in […]
No Bake Strawberry Cheesecake
This no bake strawberry cheesecake recipe is cool and creamy!! The chocolate wafer cookie crust is the perfect compliment to the easy strawberry cheesecake. It’s the middle of summer and it’s 95° out, when a friend invites you over for a dinner party and asks you to bring dessert, what do you bring? You certainly don’t […]
Red White and Blue Cake Recipe
The Red White and Blue Cake recipe is so pretty with three layers and fluffy cheesecake frosting. It will be a hit for the Fourth of July and Memorial Day! My Easter Cake recipe is wildly popular with my readers, so I decided to share a Red, White, and Blue Cake for the Fourth of […]
Earth Day Oreo Truffles
This fun Earth Day Oreo Truffles recipe makes bite-sized treats that look like the earth when you bite into them! It’s a delicious dessert for Earth Day. Earth Day is only a couple of weeks away and it’s a good reminder to think about how amazing the earth is and about how it supports life. […]
Pot of Gold Cookie Cups
These Pot of Gold Cookie Cups have Rolo chocolate caramels inside and a rainbow on top! Try this recipe for St. Patrick’s Day or spring. As every child knows, there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow if you can only find it! So, with St. Patrick’s Day just around the […]