This festive popcorn is super simple, using hot chocolate mix and marshmallows, and it can be thrown together in minutes for a perfect party treat! The holidays are definitely in full swing around here with Christmas parties, small group potlucks, present shopping, and cookie baking! There are a ton of things to do, but not …
This soft and Chewy Molasses Cookies recipe is the perfect addition to your Christmas cookie baking and are only 91 calories per cookie! In the crispy vs chewy cookie debate, I am chewy cookies all. the. way. Soft, chewy Christmas cookies are my absolute favorite and these chewy molasses cookies are everything I love about …
AKA, a few of my favorite Halloween recipes. Dirt Cake. The real stuff. Jazz it up by adding grave stone graham crackers or candy corn pumpkins or gummy body parts. If you’re into that sorta thing. Spider Web Taco Cups. These taco flavored cups are delicious, but you can (and should) add a sour cream …
I don’t know who to credit the brilliance of the jack-o-lantern carved bell pepper to (seeing as it’s here, here, here, and here, just to name a few), but I hate missing the boat on fun trends! I’m always late to jump on the fun fad bandwagon because I’m always worried I’ll be the one …
Halloween is all about the sweets. It just is. Candy apples are about as healthy as it gets in the midst of the bags of Snickers, Kit Kats, and 3 Musketeers bars. I’m not complaining, mind you. I love sweets. I still get jealous when kids talk about all the Halloween candy they accumulate in …
I put up our Halloween decorations yesterday. It sounds intensive when I leave it generalized, when really I should specify that our Halloween decorations include candy corn that I put into glass candle holders and a few pumpkin/ghost/witch snow globes that we bought from the dollar store. I don’t really do a lot for Halloween. …
*This post contains affiliate links, at no extra cost to you. Happy Monday, folks! Remember how I told you I was working on a recipe for a contest? Well, I am entering these Twinkie Minions & Macaroon Krispie Treats in the Creative Recipe Contest hosted by Confessions of a Cookbook Queen and Cookies & Cups! I …
Did you know that St. Patrick’s Day is this Sunday? This year has flown by so far! Soon I’ll be in the final stretch of work/school until summer vacation! I’m already prepping the pool, seeing as the temperature is already creeping up into the 90’s. Yeesh. Those summer temperatures always sneak up on me. Complete. …
These Pot o’ Gold Cheesecake Trifles are an adorably delicious sweet treat to help you celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. I totally missed Valentine’s Day this year. I had a list of fun themed recipes to try and I didn’t try any of them. I guess there’s always next year, but I vowed that I wouldn’t …
A hearty, comfort food meal made with rice and ground beef, then festively baked right in a pumpkin! A few posts ago, I told you all that I didn’t like pumpkin until recently. That was very, very true. But, whenever my mom would make this for us growing up, I would always ask her to …
These white chocolate pumpkin cookies combine pumpkin puree with white chocolate for a perfect Fall combination of flavors in a soft, chewy cookie. I have different categories of food likeage (yes, I just invented that word). There are foods I love, foods I like, foods I don’t like, foods I hate with a passion (cough …
These 4th of July Parfaits make the perfect red, white, and blue dessert with red velvet cake, blackberries, and a white chocolate cream. Happy 4th of July! Today has been a day of baby cuddles, catching up with friends (okay, really just one friend, Bethany, but she is such a good friend that she counts …
Try these 6 fun easy heart-shaped Valentines Day foods for a simple and sweet way to celebrate the holiday. Make these fun & easy heart-shaped foods, making your Valentine’s Day celebration even sweeter! Pancakes! I don’t have a metal heart-shaped cookie cutter, so I couldn’t make them heart-shaped on my griddle (and my pancake batter …
More Halloween food! Every day that we get closer to the 31st on this month, I’m seeing more and more of these guys pop up on the internet. I have no idea who originally came up with the idea, but I think they are absolutely adorable…and so easy! I decided to go for a little …
It’s October, so I can finally post some of the Halloween recipes I’ve been wanting to share! Okay, this recipe doesn’t really have to be labeled “Halloween” if you change the way you add the sour cream, but I just thought this would be a cute little touch to get into Fall mode! I could …