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 – Quark German Style Cheesecake
Chances are, if you were born in North America, as were both of your parents, you have no idea what quark is. Kind of sounds like a noise a dog-duck would make, right? Really though, quark is actually a light, creamy cheese – very similar in texture to a Greek yogurt or sour cream. It’s…
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…
Layered Chocolate 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! I love all things chocolate. I love baking with chocolate. I love bananas, but not “raw” straight out of the peel. It’s a quirky thing. I love the taste of…
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…