Fluffernutter Cereal Snack Bars – make these delicious treats with gluten-free Cheerios and Chex – peanut butter, marshmallow fluff and optional chocolate. The perfect summertime snack. If you’ve never heard of a fluffernutter, it’s marshmallow fluff + peanut butter together in a sandwich. You either think it sounds really weird or really delicious. But as …
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Nana’s Potica recipe – a Slovenian nut roll traditionally served at Easter and Christmas. Make this dessert to give as gifts or for holiday dinner parties. Grandma makes the best potica!
Easter Paska Bread – My Nana’s recipe for this Eastern European egg bread. I look forward to making this all year! Before I get to the (amazing) Easter bread recipe, let me start by bragging. My family gets me really cool gifts. It must be because I’m a food blogger. I have all sorts of …
Sugared cranberry cookies – sugar cookies with sugared cranberries baked in to make the sweetest cookie ever – with a twist.
Delicious homemade burger buns mixed, raised and ready in under an hour! Great if you’re having a cookout or summer party. Burger buns have been on my list to make for a while. I am completely in love with bread, but I don’t actually buy it that often since I know it’s pretty easy to …
Spicy summer grits – creamy grits with jalapeno and fresh corn. This is a hit with people who don’t even normally love grits! Perhaps it’s a bit presumptuous for me to say this dish will change how you feel about grits – maybe you already love grits? I, for one, was not a fan until …
A delicious, easy recipe for lemon blueberry cookies. Fresh blueberries and a light lemon flavor in a cookie that kind of tastes like a muffin top! A perfect dessert recipe for summer. It appears I may have a bit of a blueberry obsession. First there was blueberry banana bread. I washed that down with some blueberry …
Rough puff pastry – a quicker version of making your own homemade puff pastry dough, with ingredients you probably already have on hand! Flashback to a few days ago: me, standing in the frozen section of the grocery store. Puff pastry dough was nowhere to be found. Rather than giving up the idea of my …
Sweet Hawaiian bread – copycat version of King’s Hawaiian rolls! Pineapple juice adds the sweetness to this fluffy yeast bread. Growing up, I loved when my mom would buy Hawaiian bread from the store. Not sure if it was because they cost a little more than regular bread, or because I ate them so fast (probably …
Cherry peach crumb bars – perfectly balanced with just the right amount of fruit and just the right amount of crust! Summertime fruit dessert that will surely be a crowd pleaser. Have you noticed I’ve been making a lot of double-fruit creations lately? There was the berry berry cinnamon swirl bread, blueberry banana bread, and …
Blueberry banana bread – double the fruit and double the deliciousness! All the sweet slices will be gone before you know it.
Berry berry cinnamon swirl bread. Berries stuffed inside delicious cinnamon swirl bread and baked to perfection. Much easier to make than it looks! Ever since I went strawberry picking, I’ve been a little obsessed with finding ways to use them up. It was an exciting day when I came across Joy the Baker’s triple berry cinnamon swirl …
Nutella pudding with a homemade tart crust topped with strawberries. Fruit and chocolate combined to make the perfect summertime dessert! A couple weeks ago, I finally went strawberry picking. My cousin came up for a visit, and when I mentioned I’ve always wanted to go, she was on board. Nobody told me it’s actually a lot …
Chewy chocolate brownies with a hint of peppermint flavor. No need to crush up candy canes for this recipe! Back in December, I really wanted to make some chocolate peppermint brownies. Though when I was searching for recipes, all I could find were brownies with crushed up candy cane. That is not what I wanted! …
Buttercream icing with just the right amount of peppermint flavor. Perfect peppermint icing recipe for winter baked goods!
Fresh rosemary bread. Not only delicious but will make your kitchen smell wonderful while your herb dough is baking in the oven! Especially great to bake if you have a bunch of fresh rosemary sprigs. One of my favorite parts of eating out is if there is free bread served at the table. I don’t …
Delicious and easy homemade naan recipe made with flour and yeast. It wasn’t until a few years ago that I discovered I liked Indian food. It used to be that I was afraid to try ANY new foods, and this is one cuisine that can be quite intimidating if you’re not sure what to order. …
Coconut snowball cookies are the perfect festive treat for the holidays, Christmas parties and gifts or care packges. Only 4 ingredients needed! Last weekend, I went on a bit of Christmas cookie baking spree. Surprisingly, not all of them included chocolate (!) but I will admit that I’m tempted to make a version of these …
This vegetarian challah bread stuffing will be a great addition at your Thanksgiving table. Cooked on the stovetop to save oven space, added apples for crunch, and garnished with fresh rosemary. Do you remember my challah bread recipe? Well, if you have enough willpower to not eat all 3 of the loaves at once, then …
Pumpkin cheesecake brownies. For the days you can’t choose between pumpkin, cheesecake or brownies, you can have it all in this dessert! Continuing on my pumpkin kick, these brownies were inspired by this recipe for pumpkin cheesecake brownies from Jamie, with “My Baking Addiction.” Jamie’s recipe has a ganache, which looks super delicious but I …