I predict that Santa’s Favorite Cookie – Chocolate Chips with M&M’s® will be not only Santa’s favorite cookie but a favorite cookie with family and friends as well. This year I am participating in the 4th annual Christmas Cookie Recipe Swap hosted by these fabulous bloggers: Bread Booze Bacon Home. Made. Interest. It’s A Keeper…
Desserts
Whether you are looking for quick and easy PieRecipes, Cookie Recipes, Bar Recipes, or stunning show-stopping Cake Recipes or Cheesecake Recipes, you'll find just the perfect dessert to fit any occasion.
Shortcut Christmas Cookies
These Shortcut Christmas Cookies, including Chocolate Mint Chip Sugar Cookies and Peanut Butter Reindeer Cookies, made with Betty Crocker® Sugar Cookie and Peanut Butter Cookie Mixes, are yummy, easy, and affordable, and help you Spread Holiday Cheer with simple surprises! We are so fortunate to have family nearby. My sister lives about 10 minutes away. Eleven years ago…
Chocolate Pretzel Peanut Butter Bites
Chocolate Pretzel Peanut Butter Bites are sweet, salty, and creamy with a slight crunch, and make a yummy snack or treat. Peanut butter is one of Mr. Flavor Mosaic’s all time favorite foods. When we were dating, he came over to watch a game. I had a jar of unopened peanut butter in the pantry. After he left, I saw the jar was gone. I looked for it and saw it in the trash, completely empty! Wow! The man loves his peanut butter.
Chocolate Chip Pecan Shortbread Cookies
Chocolate Chip Pecan Shortbread Cookies are rich, sweet, buttery, crumbly, melt in your mouth shortbread cookies with chocolate chips and chopped pecans. This past weekend we went to the mall and they already had Christmas decorations up in early October. So that got me thinking about Christmas, and baking, and cookies. Are you a baker?…
Pumpkin Pecan Cheesecake Bars
These sweet Pumpkin Pecan Cheesecake Bars with a crunchy Gingersnap crust, a layer of creamy pumpkin cheesecake, and a crumbly pecan topping drizzled in a sweet vanilla glaze make this a fantastic fall dessert. Previously, in my Pumpkin Praline Bread Pudding post, I wrote about my quest to make a yummy yet easy pumpkin dessert…
Apple Pecan Cream Cheese Cake
This Apple Pecan Cream Cheese Cake made with fresh apples, cinnamon, chopped pecans, and a cream cheese filling, topped with a vanilla glaze is a delicious fall dessert your guests will love. Yay!! It’s Fall baking season, which means it is fall apple season! Never mind that it is 100 degrees outside here, I just crank up the a/c and start baking fall desserts! Baking makes me happy. Apples make me happy. So this Apple Pecan Cream Cheese Cake makes me very happy!!
Easiest Perfect Size Golden Fudge Cake
It is now easy to celebrate the small everyday victories in life with a delicious, easy to make cake that is the perfect size for only 2 to 4 people. With only Mr. Flavor Mosaic, myself, and his Mom, I don’t like to make large cakes that mean lots of leftovers for several days.
Oatmeal Pumpkin Muffins
Oatmeal Pumpkin Muffins are delicious breakfast muffins that can easily be made ahead and eaten on the go, perfect for a busy family.
With school starting soon, Moms everywhere are looking for quick and easy, make ahead options for breakfast to ensure their kids get a good start on the day. These easy, make ahead, portable Oatmeal Pumpkin Muffins are a delicious breakfast that the family can eat on the go.
No Bake Peanut Butter Butterfinger Pie
This No Bake Peanut Butter Butterfinger Pie, with a Nutella chocolate hazelnut spread swirl, is an ultra rich and decadent make-ahead frozen chocolate candy pie that requires no baking. I’ve been on a dessert kick lately. Not only dessert, but frozen desserts. Not only frozen desserts but No Bake frozen desserts like the No Bake Banana…
S’mores Ice Cream Sandwiches
S’mores Ice Cream Sandwiches combine two summer family favorites into one yummy dessert: S’mores and Rocky Road ice cream!
With our hot Texas summers, we crave cold desserts. So for us, just a regular S’mores won’t do. We want it ice cold to beat the heat!
These S’mores Ice Cream Sandwiches are a perfect family friendly summer recipe that are so easy to make even the kids can make them. All you need are …
No Bake Banana Pudding Cream Pie
This easy No Bake Banana Pudding Cream Pie recipe is super easy to make and requires no baking! Yay! Yet it still has that creamy banana cream filling over the crunchy graham cracker crust and vanilla wafers. This No Bake Banana Pudding Cream Pie Recipe tastes wonderful this time of year. Best of all, for the…
Easy Homemade No Churn Strawberry Ice Cream
Do you ever crave creamy, decadent ice cream but don’t have an ice cream maker? No worries. Make this rich, creamy and Easy Homemade No Churn Strawberry Ice Cream Recipe with fresh strawberries and only 4 ingredients, and no ice cream maker is required. Sing it with me! ♬ Summertime, Summertime, Sum Sum Summertime! ♬ You know it…
S’Mores Chocolate Chip Pancakes
S’Mores Chocolate Chip Pancakes with chocolate ganache and marshmallow syrup make breakfast yummy, sweet, and fun! With this special breakfast recipe that was my June contributor post on Realhousemoms.com, you are in for a real treat because this is three recipes in one: the pancake recipe, the chocolate ganache recipe, and the marshmallow syrup recipe. Nothing…
Southern Banana Pudding Parfaits
Southern Banana Pudding Parfaits are easy yet delicious portable desserts made in mason jars with layers of crushed vanilla wafers, sliced bananas, banana pudding, and whipped topping! I love to cook from scratch when I have the time. However, sometimes I don’t want to wait, and want something sweet NOW!! I did not want to wait…
Easy Banana Nut Muffins
This Easy Banana Nut Muffins recipe makes rich, moist, and delicious Banana Nut Muffins that are easy to make and have a rich banana flavor. Who doesn’t love Banana Nut Muffins? I have found that the key to really rich-tasting muffins with tons of banana flavor is to use really ripe, actually overripe bananas. If…
Lemon Spoon Cake and Cookbook Review
Lemon Spoon Cake is an easy, yummy slow cooker lemon dessert from the The Magical Slow Cooker cookbook, and is best served warm and topped with ice cream. This dessert is easy enough for the kids to help make for Mother’s Day. I was so excited when I heard that my blogging friend, Sarah Olson,…
Cakey Lemon Blueberry Brownies
Cakey Lemon Blueberry Brownies are yummy, moist, sticky, slightly tart, cake-like lemon brownies with sweet, juicy blueberries added for a fun sweet treat that is great for an easy dessert or afternoon snack. It’s April. Spring is in the air. Beautiful weather. People are coming out of winter hibernation and into the sunshine of the…
Blueberry Strawberry French Toast Casserole
Blueberry Strawberry French Toast Casserole is a delicious overnight casserole, made with day-old French, Brioche, Challah, or Italian bread, cream cheese, fresh strawberries, and blueberries, and topped with a sweet blueberry sauce that will feed a crowd for breakfast or brunch. In this post, you will: Last year for our progressive Easter Dinner post, which…
St Patrick’s Day Sweet Treat Recipes
This collection of 20 St Patrick’s Day Sweet Treat Recipes is sure to have one that will be your favorite for St Patrick’s Day. Salted Caramel Guinness Brownie by Nutmeg Nanny Bailey’s Irish Cream Cheesecake Shooters by Beyond Frosting Irish Apple Cake by The View From Great Island Chocolate Chip Irish Cream Pound Cake by…
Light Gluten Free Blueberry Muffins
These Light Gluten Free Blueberry Muffins taste sweet and delicious, just like regular blueberry muffins but are gluten free and lower in calories! For the last month or so we have been taking care of my Mother-in-law after she was released from the hospital. Therefore, I have been focused on making healthier, lower calorie, lower carb foods not…
Strawberry Blueberry Yogurt Parfaits
Strawberry Blueberry Yogurt Parfaits are healthy, budget-friendly, no-bake desserts made with greek yogurt, granola, strawberries, and blueberries, and are sweet, creamy, crunchy, and yummy! As I mentioned previously, I’m currently cooking for my Mother-in-Law who is diabetic, and recently had heart surgery and requires a heart-healthy, diabetic diet. If that is not enough, she also…
Chocolate Glazed Chocolate Tarts
Chocolate Glazed Chocolate Tarts are two individual chocolate tarts made with buttery, crumbly chocolate graham cracker crusts, and a rich, creamy chocolate filling, topped with a beautiful shiny chocolate glaze with a mirror-like finish. It is pure chocolate heaven and a perfect dessert for Valentine’s Day.
Strawberry Chocolate Mousse Brownie
Strawberry Chocolate Mousse Brownies are layered with a chocolate fudge brownie base, topped with a layer of light, creamy chocolate mousse, further topped with a layer of whipped cream, and luscious fresh strawberries, drizzled with a chocolate ganache. It makes a beautiful and impressive Valentine’s Day dessert and pairs well with the Gallo Family Vineyards…
Chocolate Mug Cakes for Two
Chocolate Mug Cakes for Two are quick and easy, delicious, portion-controlled, chocolate desserts for you and your sweetheart that are perfect for Valentine’s Day or any day you would like a mini chocolate cake for one or two. With Valentine’s Day around the corner, I’m starting to plan our menu. One thing I know is…