If you know and love Mounds Bars then you’ll get excited about these homemade Chocolate Coconut Bars! Using a buttery Graham cracker crust, proceed to add the next layer of creamy sweet condensed milk and shredded coconut, finished off with melted chocolate. Once set, cut your chocolate coconut bars into squares that can be enjoyed…
Holiday Baking
Looking for recipes to add to your holiday baking list? Look no further. Find beautiful, delicious holiday baking recipes, such as bars, brownies, cupcakes, cakes, and other desserts your guests will love! Check out our Best Carrot Cake, Cherry Cheesecake Brownies, and Cowboy Cookies.
Shortbread Chocolate Filled Christmas Cookies
These Shortbread Chocolate Filled Christmas Cookies are no ordinary shortbread cookies! Buttery shortbread sandwich cookies are filled with semi sweet melted chocolate to form sandwich cookies which are then fully coated in melted white chocolate! Every bite is pure bliss, and they look stunning too! Drizzle colored chocolate over these Christmas shortbread cookies with festive…
Peanut Butter Snowballs
Peanut Butter Snowballs are a no-bake candy-like holiday sweet treat filled with a creamy peanut butter center and decadent white chocolate coating, decorated with Christmas-colored sprinkles! These snowballs have a slight crunch and subtle toasted flavor thanks to the addition of fine Graham cracker crumbs. Together with powdered sugar, these cracker crumbs help to bind…
Mexican Wedding Cookies
These Mexican Wedding Cookies (also known as “snowballs”, Mexican Polvorones cookies, Russian Tea Cookies, or Pecan Sandies) offer a buttery pecan shortbread cookie ball that’s coated in sweetly soft powdered sugar – resembling powder-soft early snowfall, officially welcoming the Christmas season! These sweet buttery shortbread snowballs make the best melt-in-your-mouth wedding cookies! While the name…
Pumpkin Oreo Fudge
This Pumpkin Oreo Fudge proudly displays the bright golden-orange color of smooth canned pumpkin, sweetened with white chocolate chips and silky condensed milk, texturized with crushed Golden Oreos, and given the warmth of baking spices we all love using during Fall! A slice of this pumpkin fudge looks like a piece of gold and melts…
Pumpkin Magic Bars
Pumpkin Magic Bars are rich, thick, sweet pumpkin cookie bars layered not only with pumpkin but with butterscotch and toffee flavors as well! With creamy pumpkin, crunchy pecans, butterscotch chips, and toffee chips, it is a magical explosion of flavor and textures in every layer of this cookie bar bite! Like my Candy Apple Magic…
Christmas Shortbread Thumbprint Cookies
Christmas Shortbread Thumbprint Cookies, with Buttercream Icing, are colorful, sweet, buttery shortbread thumbprint cookies, covered in red and green sprinkles and topped with either red, green, or white buttercream frosting! Make a batch of these Christmas Shortbread Thumbprint Cookies and get ready for a holiday party to break out. They are so cheerful and colorful…
Creme Brûlée (Cranberry and White Chocolate)
Cranberry White Chocolate Creme Brûlée is a sweet and creamy white chocolate custard with cranberry sauce and topped with a crisp sugar coating for an impressive gourmet dessert! What is Creme Brulee? The typical homemade Creme Brûlée is a creamy vanilla custard topped with a crisp, a light golden caramelized sugar coating, that makes a…
Moist Banana Bread Recipe
This super Moist Banana Bread recipe makes the best banana bread you will ever try. The sour cream, very ripe mashed bananas, and Texas pecans make the difference. Everyone loves banana bread, especially this Moist Banana Bread with pecans! I have tried many banana bread recipes and banana nut bread recipes and took what I liked…
Sopapilla Cheesecake Bars
These Sopapilla Cheesecake Bars, inspired by the Mexican dessert called sopapillas, have a sweet, creamy cheesecake filling tucked between 2 crescent roll pastry sheets, and are topped with butter, cinnamon, and sugar and drizzled with honey. Based on the above description and photo, it is no surprise that Sopapilla Cheesecake Bars make a crowd-pleasing dessert that is popular…
German Chocolate Pecan Pie
This German Chocolate Pecan Pie combines German Chocolate Cake and Pecan Pie into one fabulous holiday dessert! Click here to receive FREE recipes in your inbox! This German Chocolate Pecan Pie is a holiday favorite dessert at our house! Why not? It combines two of popular desserts into one incredible pie! Pecan Pie is a perennial…
Peppermint Sugar Cookie Whoopie Pies
I have partnered with Pillsbury to bring you this sweet recipe. All opinions and experiences are 100% my own. #ItsBakingSeason Peppermint Sugar Cookie Whoopie Pies are an easy, sweet, fun festive dessert made with frosting between two sugar cookies and rolled in crushed peppermints. I love holiday baking. I love to put on Christmas music…
White Chocolate Cranberry Granola Cookies
White Chocolate Cranberry Granola Cookies are sweet, crunchy cookies with granola cereal and white chocolate chips and dried cranberries.
White Chocolate Cranberry Granola Cookies
With the busy holiday season upon us, I look forward to my therapy baking, I mean holiday baking! I find baking relaxing.
That is a necessary break from the busy work, holiday parties, shopping and everything else that goes with the holiday season. Of course, everyone expects holiday cookies, whether it be for holiday gifts, cookie exchanges, or parties.
White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies
White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies are chewy delicious cookies that use a base recipe for chocolate chip cookies and adds white chocolate chips and cranberries instead. These should definitely be on your holiday baking list. With the cold and rainy weather, it was a day to stay indoors and an excellent time to do some holiday…
25 of the Best Holiday Cookies
We have the 25 of the Best Holiday Cookies or Christmas Cookies to make the holidays a little brighter! Are you a baker? If so, you will love all these wonderful holiday Christmas cookie recipes. I love this time of year, especially the holiday baking and gift giving part of it. When I was little our next…
Butterfinger Buckeye Brownies
Butterfinger Buckeye Brownies are fudgy brownies topped with a sweet peanut butter layer and a chocolate ganache that is sprinkled with Butterfinger bits! These make awesome dessert bars for tailgating or any party. Before we get to the Butterfinger Buckeye Brownies, we must talk football with the Gridiron Grub Guru himself! Greetings from the Gridiron…
Pumpkin Walnut Crunch Cake
This sweet, creamy, crunchy Pumpkin Walnut Crunch Cake is similar to other Pumpkin Crunch Cake desserts but uses walnuts instead of pecans, and a homemade “cake mix” instead of a packaged cake mix, and includes a sprinkling of cinnamon sugar on top. Serve warm with ice cream for a crowd-pleasing Fall or Thanksgiving dessert! With…
Brennan’s Houston Bananas Foster
This Brennan’s Houston Bananas Foster recipe, with fresh bananas and ice cream covered in a buttery, brown sugar, rum-laced sauce, is from the famous Creole fine dining restaurant, Brennan’s, in Houston, Texas. I had the opportunity a few weeks ago to attend a Houston Food Blogger Collective Event at Brennan’s Houston to sample and learn about…
Baked Glazed Strawberry Donuts
These Baked Glazed Strawberry Donuts, with their sweet, melt-in-your-mouth deliciousness, are baked and not fried, and are perfect for breakfast or dessert. Another strawberry recipe? Yes! If you follow my blog, you know I am crazy about strawberries and have been busy baking with these fresh, juicy strawberries. Did you see my Strawberry Pretzel Dessert Mini…
Chocolate Peanut Butter No Bake Pie
This Chocolate Peanut Butter No Bake Pie makes a super easy no-bake dessert for a holiday dinner or party. However, with all the chocolatey peanut butter deliciousness no one will ever know that it was made with greek yogurt. Pie is a must for any of our family holiday dinners or parties, whether it is for…
Bananas Foster Upside Down Cupcakes
Bananas Foster Upside Down Cupcakes are easy to make upside down cupcakes made with bananas instead of pineapple, and are a perfect mini dessert for Mardi Gras (aka Fat Tuesday) or any party. It is January 1st and I am still in party mode. I promise I will post some healthier recipes soon, but today is…
Eggnog Tres Leches Cake
This sweet, moist, rich Eggnog Tres Leches Cake recipe makes a unique and impressive Christmas or holiday dessert that your family, friends and guests will love. I love to take this Eggnog Tres Leches Cake to either our family Christmas dinner or a holiday party. We took it over to our friend’s house last night,…
Santa’s Favorite Cookie – Chocolate Chips with M&M’s®
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…
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…