chocolate chip pound cake {our traditional birthday cake}
One year when Dave and I came home from Virginia for Thanksgiving years and years ago, his sister made him the most delicious birthday cake I had ever tasted. I…
white texas sheet cake {or almond cake} and a colorful table
We invited our first house guests over last night. I figured we can now get ourselves around well enough and are somewhat stabilized as far as the food situation goes…
chocolate oatmeal “no-bake” cookies (we call them chocolate chews)
Since we don’t have a whole slew of sugar or processed foods at our house I like to have something I can whip up on a whim…especially when we have…
“home-made” grasshopper pie
Claire requested grasshopper pie for her birthday cake. And she didn’t mean the “home-made” kind of home-made one you can find recipes for flooding the internet if you google “grasshopper…
Claudia’s pumpkin chocolate chip cookies
The minute the weather starts to cool down under 99 degrees around here my brain automatically goes into pumpkin baking mode. There’s something about Fall that makes me just crave…
easy-peasy chocolate M&M cookies
Grace whipped these puppies up on the last day of school. They were so easy and I must admit they tasted pretty good too so I figured I’d share how…
warm chocolate cake
Over the years and years since this became my favorite “hosting” dessert (I talked about it back here), my friends and I have tried to come up with new, more…
chocolate-peppermint sandwich cookies
My friend made these for book club last month and I was in love at first bite. The recipe is from “Our Best Bites” which is an awesome cooking blog. …