Grandma’s Rice Pudding is an old-fashioned rice pudding recipe that was her version of a Mexican Rice Pudding made on the stovetop. This Mexican Rice Pudding, or Arroz Con Leche in Spanish, is a thick, creamy, and sweet rice pudding that your whole family will love! Whether you serve rice pudding for breakfast or dessert,…
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Nutella Stuffed Chocolate Muffins
Nutella Stuffed Chocolate Muffins have a decadently rich chocolate flavor with gooey Nutella centers and slightly cracked tops sprinkled with decorators sugar! These soft and moist chocolate muffins can easily be adapted to include chocolate chips, chopped nuts, and various toppings, from melted chocolate glaze to velvety chocolate buttercream frosting. I love these muffins because…
Saltine Cracker Toffee
Saltine Cracker Toffee is sometimes called Christmas crack because the sweet, salty, and sticky candy is so addictive! However, it has many names. It is also called Cracker Toffee, Soda Cracker Toffee, Chocolate Saltine Toffee, or Chocolate Toffee Crackers. This saltine cracker candy is a fun Christmas treat during the holiday season. I love to…
Candy Corn Ghost Cupcakes
You and your kids will love these spooky ghost cupcakes with cream cheese frosting! They have the colors of candy corn and make an easy Halloween Treat! These fun ghost cupcakes have white frosting that makes cute ghosts on top of the yellow and orange frosting, the colors of candy corn! You’ll love these candy…
Old Fashioned Oatmeal Cake
You’ll love this old-fashioned oatmeal cake because it tastes like an oatmeal creme cookie that was transformed into a cake. Rolled oats enhance the texture of the traditional cake, and when combined with a luscious cream cheese frosting on top of the cake, it is irresistible. If this reminds you of your grandma’s oatmeal cake,…
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…
Best Homemade Carrot Cake
This is the Best Homemade Carrot Cake recipe because it is a sweet, moist, and rich Carrot Cake made from scratch with pineapple, raisins, and pecans with a smooth cream cheese frosting. When you want a dessert that everyone will love, make this cake! It makes a perfect Easter Dessert, Thanksgiving Dessert, or Christmas Cake….
Peach Cobbler Dump Cake
If you’ve got a sweet tooth and a short attention span, this Peach Cobbler Dump Cake is your dessert soulmate. It’s gooey, golden, and ridiculously easy—like “dump it all in the pan and go” easy. No bowls. No stress. No mixers. Just big peach flavor with a buttery cake topping that gets crisp and golden in the…
15 Icebox Cakes to Make This Summer
Cool off with these 15 Icebox Cakes to Make This Summer! These no-bake eclair cakes make delicious and beautiful cool desserts designed to beat the heat! One of these Icebox Cakes is certain to become a favorite! I can’t believe it is almost July and the year is halfway over. We are smack-dab in the middle of…
Banana Cranberry Bread
This moist, scrumptious Banana Cranberry Bread adds tangy fresh cranberries for an extra zip to this homemade banana bread. The addition of fresh cranberries to this homemade Banana Cranberry Bread makes it especially colorful, flavorful, and festive for Christmas and the holidays. If you follow my blog, you probably realize that I love banana bread…
Sopapilla Cheesecake Bars
These Sopapilla Cheesecake Bars, also known as Churro Cheesecake Bars, inspired by the Mexican dessert made with fried dough called sopapillas, have a sweet, creamy cheesecake filling nestled between two crescent dough sheets, and are topped with a buttery cinnamon sugar topping with a drizzle of honey. These are so good, these Mexican cheesecake bars are destined to become…
Mint Chocolate Cheesecake Dip
This Mint Chocolate Cheesecake Dip is a sweet, creamy, no-bake, minty chocolatey dessert dip that is perfect to celebrate the Irish for your St. Patrick’s Day party! How do you celebrate St Patrick’s Day? Do you cook Corned Beef & Cabbage or Guinness Stew or some other wonderful Irish dish? Or do you do what we…
German Chocolate Pecan Pie
This German Chocolate Pecan Pie combines German Chocolate Cake and Pecan Pie into one fabulous holiday dessert! 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 favorite and the German Chocolate Cake for us is…
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.
Cranberry Fluff
This pretty Cranberry Fluff Cranberry Salad, made with fresh cranberries, makes a sweet and delicious cranberry salad, side dish, or dessert for a Thanksgiving or Christmas holiday dinner. I love the holidays with all the wonderful food and especially the fresh cranberries. For our Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners, cranberry sauce, Cranberry Christmas Cake, and this Cranberry Fluff…
Pumpkin Pie with a Gingersnap Crust
I created this post as part of a sponsored series with Socialstars and SPLENDA® Brand; all opinions are my own. #GoodbyeSugar30 #SplendaSavvies This Pumpkin Pie with a Gingersnap Crust is a scrumptious, creamy pumpkin pie with a crunchy, crumbly gingersnap crust, Greek yogurt, and much less sugar than a traditional pumpkin pie. It is certain to…
Ginger Pumpkin Mini Cheesecake Pies
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #EffortlessPies #CollectiveBias With the holiday season around the corner, these quick and easy Ginger Pumpkin Mini Cheesecake Pies, with only four ingredients, will save you time and stress during the holiday season. I can’t believe the holidays are around the…
Apple Cinnamon Oat Crunch Bars
These Apple Cinnamon Oat Crunch Bars are crunchy and crumbly and have all that cinnamon apple Fall flavor that is perfect for dessert or with coffee.
While the calendar says it is Fall, our local weather still seems to think it is summer. To bring about that fall feeling, we watched college football games and I made these Apple Cinnamon Oat Crunch Bars. Sweet, crunchy and crumbly, they are delicious served with coffee.
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…
Churro Muffins
“This post first appeared over at Real Housemoms where I’m a contributor.” CHURRO MUFFINS transform a sweet cinnamon Mexican dessert into bite-sized mini muffins that are baked instead of fried! Have you ever been to a Mexican restaurant and ordered Churros for dessert? You know the fluted fried pastry dough covered in cinnamon sugar? They…
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…
Strawberry Pretzel Dessert Mini Parfaits
Strawberry Pretzel Dessert Mini Parfaits are a lightened up version of the traditional Strawberry Pretzel Dessert (or Salad) made with Greek yogurt and served in portion-controlled sized mini mason jars. I created this recipe as part of a sponsored series with Socialstars and SPLENDA® Brand; all opinions are my own. #SweetSwaps #SplendaSweeties When I was…