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Brown Butter Pumpkin Bread with Vanilla Bean Icing
Brown Butter Pumpkin Bread will make your fall baking reach a new level. The smell and depth of flavor are all about fall that means here comes a lot of baking. Have you ever browned butter? I have just recently been introduced to brown butter from a friend who is well-versed in it. She came over for a lesson in pie crust making, and I got a lesson in how to make my first brown butter.
Crockpot (Hen) Chicken & Dressing {A Southern Favorite All Year Around!}
Crockpot (Hen) Chicken & Dressing , all the bells and whistles of traditional Turkey and Dressing flavors cooked in a crockpot. A Southern favorite all year around! During our cool spell here in Texas a couple of weeks ago, I had a hankering for some Chicken and Dressing after seeing a Facebook friend post that she was making some for her family.
Sugar Cookie Peach Cobbler
Sugar Cookie Peach Cobbler is one of those quick cobbler recipes that can be ready in a jiffy! Layer the ingredients in a baking dish, resist stirring, and watch the magic happen. CREAMY PEACH COBBLER This creamy peach cobbler is really creamy with the addition of milk. It's an easy and unique twist on the traditional peach cobbler . As a tradition, every year around my daughter's birthday, we try to go to our favorite Peach Orchard! This year we actually got to go on her birthday, which was sweet. There are so many fresh vegetables and fruits, you cannot leave without something. Who remembers the roadside produce stands that were popular in the '50s and '60s? This is as close to one as you can get these days. We loaded up with fresh peaches, wild red plums, cantaloupes, Fresh Lady Cream Peas , and their famous fresh peach soft serve ice cream. Yum!
Sugar Cookie Bars {The Perfect Easter Cookie}
Sugar Cookie Bars , soft tender cookie dough baked in a sheet pan, frosted with vanilla buttercream, taste just like the classic sugar cookie. Who doesn't love a thick frosted sugar cookie? If you want the perfect taste of sugar cookies without all the work of rolling them out and cutting them out, then you will love these Sugar Cookie Bars . These cookies meet all the hype around the blog world about how easy they are to make. If you don't have time to fuss with making Easter cookies, these will be the perfect ones to make. Hope you get to make some soon. Enjoy!
Reese's Copycat Peanut Butter Eggs
Reese's Copycat Peanut Butter Eggs are fun, easy Easter treats that mimic the classic ones sold in stores. They are fabulously delicious. Make them yourself. Reese's Copycat Peanut Butter Easter Eggs How to have fun at Easter is by dipping homemade peanut butter eggs with children and adults alike. Give them away in cute Easter bags tied with ribbon. Don't you just love copycat recipes? Especially when you can make your very favorite Easter candy yourself.
German Chocolate Cake Balls
German Chocolate Cake Balls are just another addition to my long list of German Chocolate favorites. If you have not made cake balls before, this recipe is a good one to start with. Typically, you can make them with cake mixes, canned frosting, and dipping chocolate. How easy is that? Only 3 ingredients! Valentine's is just around the corner, and these would be a wonderful treat. These are fun to make with your children and Grandchildren like I did. We had so much fun making them, and dipping them was the best. For some more wonderful Valentine's treats, look to the right on the sidebar.
Lunch Lady Brownies
A lunch lady from Idaho introduced these perfectly rich, fudgy chocolate brownies more than 50 years ago. OLD SCHOOL BROWNIES So happy the lunch ladies in our school cafeterias introduced us to these fabulous fudge brownies. When I grew up in the 60s and 70s, the cafeteria food was fantastic. Many of their recipes have graced the tables of our parents for years. The Lunch Lady Brownies are my new favorite brownie. I am obsessed with pinning every brownie recipe that comes across the Pinterest boards. How did we ever discover new recipes before Pinterest?
Marinated Cheese Bites
Marinated Cheese Bites , an easy dip version of the popular Marinated Cheese Block. Combine all the marinade in a jar and pour over the cheese bites. Gloriously delicious at any gathering. This make ahead appetizer recipe for Marinated Cheese Bites was introduced to me by a friend I met at a scrapbook retreat this past weekend.
White Chocolate Cherry Nut Cookies
Cookie trays are the perfect dessert around the holidays because they can be made in advance and are easy to serve with little fanfare. They are the star on the table of any gathering. My daughter-in-law, Brandy, adapted this recipe for White Chocolate Cherry Nut Cookies from my recipe for Chocolate Drizzled Cherry Delights . She came up with the idea to add white chocolate chips and pecans to the cookie batter and drizzle white chocolate over them. Turns out I really like these over the chocolate ones. Since there are some in the family that prefers the chocolate ones, that's the reason you make both and let everyone choose for themselves. These White Chocolate Cherry Nut Cookies are soft and chewy with chunks of white chocolate, chopped candied cherries, and crunchy pecans in a Betty Crocker sugar cookie mix. These cookies are so easy and quick to make. Don't underestimate the flavor and richness of this holiday cookie. ...
Coconut Macaroons {An Easy and Tasty Recipe using Eagle Brand Condensed Milk}
Coconut Macaroons are an elegant cookie, yet easy and almost effortless to make. This classic macaroon is made with a few ingredients, sweetened condensed milk, coconut, and egg whites. Whisk everything together and scoop them out on a baking sheet. How easy is that? They are wonderfully delicious! The traditional macaroon has been around for eons. I think it is my favorite, but who says you can't mess with perfection and place a chocolate kiss in the center to make Macaroon Kisses. Or dip the bottom in chocolate and drizzle chocolate over the top, or even add a cherry in the center to make them look cute. Hope you enjoy the recipe! Merry Christmas !
Millionaire Fudge
Millionaire Fudge is the perfect old fashioned recipe that will make everyone want to go down memory lane for grandma's fudge recipes. GRANNY'S MILLIONAIRE FUDGE RECIPE This Millionaire Fudge recipe is super easy to make, with no thermometer required, and will exceed all your expectations of having the perfect homemade fudge. Millionaire Fudge is my favorite fudge of all time. It is only the most incredibly scrumptious fudge you will ever eat. In the 1950s, Mamie Eisenhower introduced marshmallow whip creme to fudge recipes, changing the whole concept of how easy it is to make, not to mention how delicious it is.
Gingerbread Oreo Truffles {So Simple To Make ~ Yet So Decadent!}
Gingerbread Oreo Truffles , a mixture of crushed gingerbread Oreos and cream cheese, and then dipped in chocolate almond bark. Simple to make and yet so decadent. My family is obsessed with Oreos, Double Stuffed ones to be exact. This weekend we opened our first batch of the Gingerbread ones for this year. Gingerbread Oreos are seasonal, only coming out in the stores around the first of November. As soon as I see them in the stores, the first thing I think about is making these decadent Gingerbread Oreo Truffles .
Stew in a Pumpkin {Baked and served in a pumpkin}
Baked Pumpkin Stew is a flavorful beef stew cooked and served in a sugar pie pumpkin. When serving, raise the ladle up with the stew scraping the sides of the pumpkin being sure to get a generous serving of pumpkin. A true taste of Fall! To celebrate the Fall, pumpkin is so hot these days, and almost anything can be made with it. When I grew up in the 60s, pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread were the most popular recipes to make. These days that is not the case.
German Chocolate Cheesecake Cake
German Chocolate Cheesecake Cake , is made with a german chocolate cake mix for the cake, and the rest is homemade, including the coconut pecan frosting. German Chocolate, anything around our house, is a favorite. And cheesecake, well, you have the best of both worlds when you bring those two together.
Pumpkin Magic Bars
Pumpkin Magic Bars, perfect combination of pumpkin cookie mix, cinnamon chips, dark chocolate chips, coconut, pecans and magical ingredient sweetened condensed milk. Nothing is lacking in this layered cookie recipe. The little dessert bar called by many names from 7 Layer Bars , Hello Dolly Cookies Bars and the most popular, Magic Cookie Bars have made another appearance in our house.
A Delicious Dessert for July 4th! Easy Strawberry Dessert Pizza
Strawberry Dessert Pizza , strawberries, marshmallow cream cheese filling and refrigerated cookie dough make a delicious summer dessert. I have been admiring a Strawberry Dessert Pizza recipe over at Mommy's Kitchen for some time now. She has a lengthy recipe index of yummy quick and easy desserts that look absolutely delicious. You need to stop by and check them out. I finally got around to making it this past Memorial Day weekend for my grandsons. They enjoyed it so much so that I went to the grocery store and bought enough ingredients to make another one. I didn't have my usual pizza pan to make the Easy Strawberry Dessert Pizza in, so I decided to use my cast iron round griddle. Like Tina, I started off with a package of refrigerated cookie dough for the crust. After the cookie crust baked and was cooling, I made the first layer to the pizza out of a rich, creamy mixture of cream cheese and marshmallow cream. The next layer...
