These Chocolate Chip Cream Cheese Cookies are super soft, buttery & loaded with tangy cream cheese flavor. We all have recipes we make only a few times a year – reserved for holidays or special occasions. Fried turkey, gravy, potato filling, bread stuffing, candied yams, cranberries – just a few yummy comfort holiday foods I…
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Cranberry Chocolate Chip Muffins
Simple, delicious, moist & easy to make – these fresh Cranberry Chocolate Chip Muffins are awesome! Perfect for breakfast, dessert or a sweet snack! Poor, misunderstood cranberries. They have such a bad reputation. People associate this sweet and tangy berry with that lumpy, clumpy, almost gelatin like blob of canned sauce that gets served on holidays….
Basic Buttercream Frosting/Icing
I’ve tried many, many, many buttercreams over the years and this seems to be the best basic, all-purpose buttercream frosting. Not too greasy tasting, not too heavy, versatile, easy to work with, holds up good and tastes great. It’s not gourmet – but it’s good. I can’t think of anything more that I need from…
Käsekuchen German Cheesecake
Kasekuchen German Cheesecake. A delicious, lightly sweetened German Cheesecake made with quark. It’s a lighter, fluffier custard like cheesecake. A Cheesecake Made Without Cream Cheese I’ll start by saying I absolutely love an American Cheesecake. It’s one of my nearest & dearest favorite desserts. Which leads me into exploring a world of cheesecake creations. Käsekuchen,…
Chocolate Avocado Cake With Chocolate Avocado Buttercream Frosting
Chocolate Avocado Cake and Chocolate Avocado Buttercream – delicious, moist and rich – a healthier dessert that compromises no flavor. Round 2. I recently struck gold on the avocado deal of a lifetime. With over a dozen of super ripe avocados on hand and plans for more than guacamole, I knew I had to get…
Ocean Spray Cranberry Bread
This post may contain affiliate links & Amazon affiliate links. As always, all opinions are my own. Thank you for reading and thank you for your support ♥ The recipe for Ocean Spray Cranberry Bread is perfectly moist & delicious! It’s a moist cranberry, orange & nut bread full of tangy tart sweetness. A must…
Chocolate Chip Banana Bars
Chocolate Chip Banana Bars! A moist layered bar booming with banana and chocolate in every bite. Chocolate chips give it an extra richness and creaminess. Super easy to make! Chocolate Banana Lovers These Chocolate Chip Banana Bars are moist, rich with flavor, delicious & super easy to mix up and made with ingredients you more…
Chocolate Cranberry Bars
Sweet, tart, delicious Chocolate Cranberry Bars made from fresh or frozen cranberries. Freeze a few bags of cranberries to enjoy this treat year round! Cranberries Have a Short Season – Stock Up While You Can! I may or may not be a hoarder of cranberries. No judging. They’re one of my favorite fruits and they’re…
“5 Banana” Banana Bread
After coming home from a weekend vacation I was greeted by a bunch of rotten bananas (in the words of Athena, my 8 year old). More commonly known by the rest of us as super ripe, at their prime, ready to bake bananas. Perhaps most normal people wouldn’t find this exciting – I was totally ecstatic. Banana bread…
Mexican Chocolate Chip Cookies
It all started with a cone of piloncillo and a craving for chocolate chip cookies. For those of you not familiar with piloncillo, also known as panela, it’s a Mexican brown sugar. It’s a pure, unrefined form of cane sugar that tastes very similar to brown sugar with a hint of molasses to it. This…