Sing it with me! Peanut… peanut butter! And jelly! I absolutely adore peanut butter. It’s so delicious. It’s great in everything. Peanut butter on toast? Good. Peanut butter & banana in oatmeal? Greatest breakfast ever. Peanut butter and chocolate? Come on, need I say more? Peanut butter ice cream? Why...
Isn’t strawberry ice cream the quintessential summer dessert? I was so excited for strawberry season this year, since I’ve had this recipe on my mind for months. I’m so happy to say that it more than lived up to my expectations. I love that it is sweet and the strawberry...
These sinful little cupcakes, along with the Vanilla Cupcakes with Raspberry Filling and Raspberry Buttercream, were the cupcakes I served for Madeline’s 1st birthday party and let me tell you, they were quite the hit. The cupcakes themselves were great, but the filling… oh the filling! And the frosting!...
Last week my sweet baby Madeline turned 1 year old. While planning her birthday party, I knew I wanted to make two different kinds of cupcake- one fruity and one more decadent. After debating with myself if raspberry filling and raspberry butter cream would be “too much”, decided on these...
We are quite the coffee addicts around our house. It is my firm belief that there isn’t much better than coffee & chocolate together. An iced mocha is a surefire way to perk up my day (pun intended. Perk? Coffee? oh my). So these little cupcakes are what I’d consider...
It’s a given that at least once a week I will make a batch of cookies. And it is inevitable that if I ask Brian what kind of cookie he’d like he’ll answer “Chocolate chip”. He’s nothing if not consistent. So finally one day when I asked him what kind he...
I think Rebecca (my 3 year old) thinks I’ve been holding out on her. Every time I make chocolate chip cookies Brian snags a bite (ok 12 bites) of cookie dough before they go in the oven. I never let her have any (raw egg. 3 year old. paranoid mommy.)...
Vanilla Ice Creamprint this recipe Ingredients:1 cup whole milk¾ cups sugar2 cups heavy creampinch of salt1 vanilla bean6 large egg yolks¾ teaspoon vanilla extract Directions:In a medium saucepan warm the milk, sugar, 1 cup of the cream and the salt. Scrape the seeds from the vanilla bean into the milk...
So, funny story. A few weeks ago was my daughter Rebecca’s third birthday. All along we’d talked about the kind of cupcakes she wanted for various birthday functions that week and we’d agreed on Oreo cupcakes for The Big Day. Then, just before naptime- when I was going to be...
Do you know how difficult it is to find a great recipe for pie to make for someone who hates pie? That was my job this Thanksgiving. My mom doesn’t like pie most of the time, and really doesn’t like crust. So what did she ask me to make this...