Home › Recipe Index › Breakfast Breads Caramel Macchiato Banana Bread Caramel Macchiato Banana Bread — Caramel banana bread that tastes like a caramel macchiato!! Soft, tender, infused with salted CARAMEL and topped with a brown sugar glaze!! EASY and IRRESISTIBLE!! Unique Banana Bread Recipe I love banana bread so much and have so many combinations including carrot banana, peanut butter apple, zucchini banana, blueberry banana , cream cheese filled , and 40+ more ....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Bliss Cake I love Starbucks Cranberry Bliss Bars. I’ve made them , and I’ve made them into cookies . The batter comes together like muffin batter in 5 minutes flat. A bowl of dry ingredients and a bowl of wet. Pour the wet over the dry , stir, pour into a pan, and bake. No mixer, nothing complicated or fussy....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes December Recipes & Link Up Our time in Aruba in December was fabulous. To say it was the best three and a half weeks of our year would be a very true statement. While I was here, I did a fair amount of cooking and baking. And I loved every hot and sweaty chocolate-melting-in-the-photos second of it. For me, cooking and baking is fun and brings out my creative side....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Generosity & Clean Teeth Katie’s Vegan Bake Sale for Japan ended and I was blown away when I saw my Raw Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls fetch $200! I don’t know who the bidders were, or who the winner is! (Katie has not announced it as of the time I am publishing this post. She is likely swamped with details, emails, and handling a million things ....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Happy New Year Happy New Year! I rang in the new year with one Jello shot. I think Jello shots taste better if you’re underage or at a fraternity party. Both of which were more than a couple years ago for me. I would have liked to have been drinking Veuve but I had two hot dates and couldn’t risk my vision being impaired or just falling asleep....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes I Drooled & Creating Masterpieces I’ve spied some great food around the sphere the past week. And then I drooled. Here are a few of the gems I’ve been salivating over: Marla’s Very Blueberry Layer Cake Jess’ Balsamic Honey Tofu Katie’s Creamy Cauliflower Cheeze Emily’s Copycat Girl Scout Thin Mints Jenna’s Oatmeal Cream Pies with Cinnamon Buttercream Angela’s Vegan Chocolate Cupcakes with Vanilla Almond Buttercream Frosting & Raspberry Glaze Bitt’s Creamy Basil Raw Lasgana Jessica’s Peanut Butter Stuffed Hot Fudge Cupcakes I could go on and on and on with what I’ve spied lately that makes me drool me really excited....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Mix Quick recap of the raw veggie eats from last night’s dinner * Cremini mushrooms *Greens *Brussels’s Sprouts *Tomato *Yellow & Orange Peppers *Broc *Juice of half an orange, agave, & cracked black I wonder if they call em Cremini mushrooms because they added a nice creaminess to my Hugh Jass ? After after that I had a big bowl of mini carrots with Cinnamon Cumin Ginger dip that I didn’t snap a picture of....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes September 2012 Recipes It’s the end of the month and time to recap the noteworthy recipes and events from the month: 15 Un-Labor Day Recipes – Fast, easy, and unlaboring recipes Fluffernutter Banana Smoothie (vegan, GF) – Marshmallows + Peanut Butter + Bananas are a win Zucchini Banana Bread with Browned Butter Cream Cheese Frosting – The frosting alone makes me want to make more of this bread...

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert › Cookies Softbatch FUNFETTI®-Inspired Sugar Cookies Funfetti Cookies — These funfetti cookies are essentially sugar cookies from scratch that have been loaded with sprinkles. They have that nostalgic boxed cake flavor but are 100% homemade! Funfetti Cookies From Scratch Who can say no to super soft cookies with sprinkles baked in? I sure can’t. It’s been on my bucket list to come up with a softbatch-style sugar cookie recipe that’s soft, and not at all cakey , with just hints of chewiness around the edges....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Sunday Best My Sunday Best thus far: Cookie Butter Spread . By the spoonful. It hasn’t just been a best of today. It’s been a best of the past month. Known as Cookie Butter Spread, Trader Joe’s Speculoos Spread , Biscoff Spread. Stalk this and hunt it down like it’s your job. Order or seek out the Biscoff brand Spread . Do what you have to do; it’s so worth it....

Home › Recipe Index › Thanksgiving Recipes The Best Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake with Chocolate Ganache Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake — This easy pumpkin cake is loaded with chocolate chips and drizzled in rich and decadent chocolate ganache. It’s one of the best pumpkin cakes I’ve ever had!! An EASY no-mixer fall favorite cake that everyone just LOVES! Easy Pumpkin Bundt Cake … with Chocolate Chips! Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake Ingredients How to Make Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake Recipe FAQs Tips for the Best Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bundt Cake The Best Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake with Chocolate Ganache Recipe More Easy Pumpkin Desserts: Easy Pumpkin Bundt Cake … with Chocolate Chips!...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Thursday Things & LinkUp Here are this week’s Thursday Things LorAnn Oils – “Concentrated Flavors (candy oils) for Candy, Chocolate and Baking. The term “candy oil” refers to a type of flavor that is concentrated and undiluted. These flavors are 3 to 4 times stronger than grocery store extracts.” No Artificial Sweeteners, Sugar Free (except Canadian Maple & Maple), Gluten Free, Contain No Vegetable Oils, Certified Kosher...

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Weekend Report I hope your weekend has been going well so far. Mine has but I can’t believe Saturday is almost over. Time flies! Here’s my weekend report thus far: I baked. I didn’t use these exact ingredients but very similar. What I made is a spin-off on Pumpkin Peant Butter Oatmeal Bars (Vegan, GF) but without the pumpkin. Sooner or later I’ll get the new recipe posted....

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Almond Butter Dark Brown Sugar Chocolate Chip Bars Chocolate Chip Almond Butter Bars — Soft, chewy, and flourless so the creamy almond butter shines through with chocolate chips in every bite!! Easy, no-mixer peanut-free dessert recipe that’s a guaranteed hit!! Best Ever Almond Butter Dessert I’ve made a ton of bars with peanut butter but it’s been years since I’ve baked with almond butter....

Home › Recipe Index › Breakfast Breads Baked Lemon Donuts with Lemon Glaze Baked Lemon Donuts with Lemon Glaze — These taste like the Starbucks lemon loaf, but in donut (or mini muffin) form!! Easy, no mixer recipe with a tart-yet-sweet lemon glaze that’s PERFECT! Lemon lovers will adore them!! Easy Baked Donut Recipe I took one of the most popular recipes on my site — my Copycat Starbucks Lemon Loaf — and turned it into donuts....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Bunny Crafts Skylar made a crown with a bunny on it at preschool this week. Complete with cotton ball “hair”. And she made an Easter Basket Bunny using a milk carton. The back was filled with plastic eggs containing stickers. And jelly beans! The frantic search was on. She knew those jelly beans were in there. Ahh, found one five. Sweet, sugary bliss....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Console Yourself I hope you all are enjoying a bug-free , long, holiday weekend! For anyone who’s gotten bug bites or who doesn’t have a long weekend or who’s not on holiday, so sorry. Please console yourself with one, or more , of the following: Magic Eight Bars “Cheater’s” Guacamole Dark Rum Caramel Sauce for all your seasonal fresh fruit ice cream that you’re going to be eating today...

Home › Recipe Index › Dessert Cream Cheese-Filled Blueberry Cake Blueberry Cream Cheese Cake — A light and tender blueberry sponge cake stuffed with tangy-sweet cream cheese filling and bursting with juicy blueberries in every bite! An EASY, no-mixer cake recipe that’s sure to be a family FAVORITE!! Cream Cheese-Filled Blueberry Cake Recipe I’ve made many quick breads stuffed with cream cheese including this Cream Cheese-Filled Banana Bread as well as Cream Cheese-Filled Pumpkin Bread ....

Home › Recipe Index › All Recipes Creamy Cherry and Lemon Bars Creamy Cherry and Lemon Bars are dense and firm, and have lots of texture from the cherries. Plus they’re extremely easy and fast to make! I wanted to make something in the spirit of Valentine’s Day. And use up various baking project leftovers. This is the result. From the Maraschino Cherry White Chocolate Cookies and the Rum Runners , I had maraschino cherries left over....

Home › Recipe Index › Soups Easy One-Hour French Onion Soup 🧅🧀🥣 One-Hour French Onion Soup features a rich, flavorful broth and sweet, caramelized onions with a lot less work than many recipes. Topped with cheese, it’s comfort food heaven and so simple to make! The Best French Onion Soup Recipe Recently, I was on vacation with my family, and we ordered French onion soup in a restaurant. I don’t think my daughter had ever had it before, but after we all literally were about to start licking our bowls clean, I knew I had to come home and make it....