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Cookies

Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies

Rich, chocolatey cookies stuffed full of peanut butter chips!  If a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup was a cookie, this would be it!  These cookies are so easy to make and are SO thick and soft.  If you love the combination of chocolate and peanut butter (and ummm who doesn’t?!), then you need to make these cookies. Continue Reading…

Bars, Blondies & Brownies

Glazed Lemon Cake Bars

An easy-to-make lemon cake, glazed with an even easier lemon glaze!  These cake bars are perfect for Spring or to have on the table at any brunch, bridal shower, baby shower…or just for you and your family (since we are still in the midst of social distancing here).  But I am also thinking about the future and parties and get togethers with family…all of which will need a dessert.  So make sure you pin this! Continue Reading…

Breads

Easy Homemade Dutch Oven Bread

If you crave fresh bread with a crispy outer crust and a soft, airy inside, this recipe is for you! You only need 4 ingredients, and the prep time is less than 10 minutes.  This Dutch Oven bread recipe will make a tasty loaf that goes with just about anything.  This recipe works particularly well with a double Dutch Oven, but you can use any sturdy, round baking dish with a lid. Continue Reading…

Bars, Blondies & Brownies

Banana Blondie Bars with Banana Icing

All you need is one lonely, ripe banana to make these blondie bars that are rich in banana and brown sugar flavor and topped with a light banana flavored icing.  With one banana left after making banana bread recently, I decided to put that banana to good use and throw it in a blondie recipe!  These blondies are kind of like if a blondie and a piece of cake had a baby.  A banana baby. Continue Reading…

Muffins & Pastries

Donut Bread Pudding

Yup.  Donut bread pudding.  For those rare occasions when you have 7 or 8 leftover glazed donuts that are about to go stale or have already gone stale.  I know this may seem like a rare occurrence, but you know….it happened to me, so maybe it will happen to you?  So instead of eating stale donuts (anything over a day old is stale in my book), I made bread pudding with my donuts! Continue Reading…

Muffins & Pastries

Banana Butterscotch Scuffins

Mashed bananas and butterscotch chips are the main flavors in this mash up of what would happen if a scone married a muffin and had a baby.  Enter the SCUFFIN!  Because these little wedges of goodness have the crisp outer layer like a scone and the interior of a muffin. Continue Reading…

Muffins & Pastries

Buttermilk Pancakes

Buttermilk pancakes, easily made from scratch, to enjoy on any morning ending in y!!  These pancakes are so easy to make, there’s no need to wait until the weekend to whip them up!  All you need are a few pantry staples and buttermilk and a bowl.  Well a pan too (because you gotta cook em). Continue Reading…

Bars, Blondies & Brownies

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chex Treats

Peanut Butter Chex and Chocolate Chex, with even more chocolate, marshmallows and peanut butter all come together for a peanut buttery-chocolatey treat that as easy to make and will feed a crowd!  Yup…I am back.  Hitting ya with yet another cereal treat!  Will there ever be an end to my cereal treat madness??? NO!  The answer is NO!  But that’s why you love me (unless your name is Gillian, then you only love me for my brownies). Continue Reading…