Posts under ‘Other Sweets’

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake

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I don’t have a lot to say at this particular moment in time, but I did quickly want to share with you something sweet I made last week.  It was a peanut butter chocolate chip cookie cake, which I found at Almost Bourdain.  This blog is becoming one of my favorites – I found the [...]

Coconut Pancakes With Caramel Sauce

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When you look at a food magazine, the photo on the cover should invite you to open up the magazine, have a look, and then convince you to carry it to the checkout to purchase it.  Most food magazines deliver this invite pretty well to me, especially if it has something sweet on the cover. [...]

Treacle Scones

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This was my fourth year as a mother for Mother’s Day.  It’s been pretty amazing, the past four years.  Mother’s Day hasn’t ever been a big celebration for us, maybe just a nicer meal than usual and a “Happy Mother’s Day”.  This was the first year though that my four-year-old daughter was able to understand [...]

Teriyaki Beef Sushi And Green Tea Meringues

Wow, a whole seven days without a post, what am I coming to?  I have been a little busy over the Easter holidays and while I haven’t quit baking, I have had less time to spend on the computer.  Now that the holidays are over, I hope to resume some sort of normality.  To make [...]

Faux Hot Cross Buns

The closest I’ve ever came to a hot cross bun while growing up was reciting the nursery rhyme, “Hot cross buns, hot cross buns, one a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns”.  I never actually knew what a hot cross bun was.  I grew up in a cornfield in Indiana, after all, so I [...]

Nutella Cream Cheese Fruit Dip

As you may know, February 5 was World Nutella Day.  I submitted my entry, a fried Nutella and banana sandwich with cinnamon sugar crust, but a comment on that entry inspired me to make a Nutella fruit dip.  It’s basically a variation of this peanut butter dip, which I have made before and absolutely loved. [...]

Pumpkin Walnut Cheesecake

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Cheesecakes are not one of my favorite dessert foods.  It’s the cream cheese that I don’t like.  I like cream cheese when it’s sweetened, like in frosting, or when mixed into muffins, but I don’t like it on its own or when the flavor of the cream cheese is too prominent. This month’s Taste Of [...]

Quick, Easy Cinnamon Rolls

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One of my all-time favorite breakfast foods is the cinnamon roll.  Paired with a steaming cup of coffee or hot cocoa, it is perfect for when you’re feeling all warm and cozy on a chilly morning. Unfortunately, I’ve noticed a lot of people are scared, or reluctant, to bake cinnamon rolls from scratch because of [...]

Divinity

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I haven’t seen divinity around much these days and there’s only one time in my life that I remember eating this candy, and I was very young.  My neighbor, a kind elderly woman, made great divinity, or so my mom says!  I don’t even remember what it tasted like.  My grandmother, on my mom’s side, [...]

Easy As Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream

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In Parke County, Indiana there is an annual event known as the Covered Bridge Festival that runs for a week in early October (it actually starts today, too bad it is rainy and dreary!). Parke County is famous for its 32 covered bridges, and has festivals throughout the entire county each year to celebrate their [...]