Cooking, Creating, and Everything in Between
Yum If coffee and cream really did get married and have a divinely beautiful baby, it would be Mocha Creme Brulee. The softness of heaven with the delirious richness of coffee . . . oh no we didn’t!!! Yes. Yes…
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Yum Peanut Butter Cream Pie has not traditionally been one of my favorites. As a kid, I hated peanut butter. But then I tried a peanut butter pie so decadent . . . so silky . . . so delicious,…
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Yum Cinnamon Roll Pound Cake? Did I hear you correctly? Yesssss. We have a little electric company leaflet that gets handed out each month in our neighborhood, and in it they feature favorite reader recipes. I added a little breakfast…
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Yum What is it about coconut cream pie that makes you close your eyes and dream gorgeous, billowing dreams of spring? Is it the luxurious richness of the custard? The pillowy clouds of freshly whipped cream on top? Maybe it’s…
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Yum Dark Chocolate and Raspberry are like the dark, sensuous lovers of the kitchen. They are sweet. Rich. Deliciously and deliriously melodious. Their marriage is a tempestuous love affair– And when you see them waltz the night away into cheesecake…
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Yum Ah, carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. I start to think about you, with your glorious, toasted pecans, when the winter starts to get long. I dream of spring– of that delicious new green that seems to happen when…
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Yum Ahhh, Classic Peach Crisp. You combine the sun-kissed glory of a freshly picked peach, and combine it with a delirious concoction of sugar, cinnamon, and spices . . . then top it all with buttery pecans and crunchy oatmeal,…
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Yum There is a reason that Cookies and Cream Cheesecake is a classic flavor combination. It combines the crunchy, chocolate loveliness of the cookies with the silky, decadent creaminess of the cream . . . and a classic was born! …
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Yum It’s a tradition almost as old as Christmas– making classic Hershey’s Kiss Christmas cookies, AKA Peanut Blossoms. I can remember even as a child helping to make these cookies with my Mom in the kitchen– and feeling so important…
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Yum It’s no secret that we are cookie fiends at my house. There is very nearly always some type of cookie cooling on my counters for church, school, or someone’s upcoming birthday party. One day I looked at the scads…
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