Old Fashioned Buttermilk Pie

    Visiting family and friends during the holidays means good times, great food, and pecan or buttermilk pie (or both if your lucky).  It’s an old southern recipe and is a staple at many Thanksgiving or Christmas dinners.  I usually make two pies each time I bake, serving one and popping the other one […]

Pumpkin Ooey Gooey Butter Cake

  Ooey Gooey Butter Cake has always been my favorite cake.  I have tried a couple of different recipes including a chocolate ooey gooey cake.  They were good but have never topped the original ooey gooey cake ……  that was until now! I have to say that this Pumpkin Ooey Gooey Butter Cake takes that […]

Southern Pecan Pie

Jump to Recipe Print Recipe I have been using this recipe to make pecan pies for over 30 years.  I think it was in an old Better Homes and Gardens cookbook that I had when I was a teenager. Pecan pie always shows up on the Thanksgiving menu because I have a massive pecan tree […]

Donut Bread Pudding

My Cinnamon Roll Bread Pudding was such a hit that I decided to try Donut Bread Pudding when I came across a box of day-old donuts.  I made it basically the same way as my Cinnamon Roll Bread Pudding making minor changes and using a different icing recipe. As with most of my dessert recipes, […]

Grown Up Smores

Though I like the taste of smores, I never make them.  The chocolate doesn’t melt like I want it too and my marshmallows always catch on fire.  And if you are making them over a campfire then you are going to have goo everywhere.  Or maybe I’m just messy !  I have been eating marshmallow […]

White Chocolate Cupcakes recipe

My daughter wanted white chocolate cupcakes at her wedding so I came up with this simple and easy recipe. White Chocolate Cake 1 box white cake mix 1/2 box of instant white chocolate pudding 1 teaspoon vanilla * Liquid White Chocolate Coffee Creamer (use vanilla if you can’t find white chocolate) * Substitute the water called for […]

Cinnamon Roll Bread Pudding

I love bread pudding.  It’s one of those timeless old-fashioned desserts that evokes times past in grandmothers kitchen. I use cinnamon rolls in this recipe but you could use honey buns, donuts,  rolls, etc.   This is one of those recipes that takes a little time because the bread has to dry out and then […]

FRIED OREO COOKIES

My sister and niece were making these the other night and they were so delicious that I knew I had to make some.  The next day I want to the nearest  town on my lunch break and purchased a Fry Daddy, cooking oil, Bisquick, milk, and Oreos.  Yes, they were so good that I took […]

White Chocolate Peeps Rice Krispies Treats

Every month, Lady Behind the Curtain has a Dessert Challenge where she assigns two ingredients.  This weeks challenge was to create a dessert using white chocolate and marshmallow peeps. I remembered a recipe where my sister made Peeps rice krispiees eggs for Easter.  I decided to use the same recipe and add white chocolate on […]

Banana Cream Pie

I have so many fond memories of spending time in my grandmothers kitchen so it’s no surprise that any time I make a cream based pie, I think of my grandmother. I used to stand on a chair by the stove with a spoon in my hand stirring up whatever creamy delight she was making.  After she […]

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Chocolate Covered Banana Cakes

When I was out shopping for the Little Debbie Strawberry Cakes the other day to make the Chocolate Covered Strawberry Cakes, I spied these banana cakes.  I knew they would taste just as awesome as the strawberry so I purchased a box. I love strawberries but I love the flavor of banana more so these […]

Chocolate covered strawberry cake (made with little Debbie cakes)

Do you need a sweet and easy treat for your valentine?  I was trying to think of something quick and easy to make for a girls night party last weekend and decided to give this idea a try.  I love to take a purchased item and add touches to it to give it more of […]

Strawberry Valentine S’mores

Ingredients: Small heart shaped marshmallows Heart shaped Dove chocolate candies Graham crackers Chocolate chips for melting Cut graham crackers into small squares. Place a Dove chocolate heart on top of each square. Cut a small heart shaped marshmallow in half. Place half of the marshmallow, sticky side down, on top of the chocolate heart. Drizzle […]

mississippi mud brownie cupcakes

Jump to Recipe Print Recipe     If you have ever had this cake, you  know how yummy, wonderful, and delicious it is.  It is one of my all time favorite cakes.  I just turned fifty years old and I remember my mother making this when I was a child (so a long time ago!).  It’s […]

Peanut Butter Pie Recipe

The weather is getting a little cooler and I’m gearing up for all of those yummy desserts that comes with Thanksgiving and Christmas.  This peanut butter pie recipe  (Yesterfoood) reminds of the peanut butter pie my grandmother and I used to make.  I loved it when my grandmother made any cream pie since I always […]

Triple Chocolate Nutella Cupcakes

Jump to Recipe Print Recipe I know this is hard to believe, but I have only recently discovered Nutella.   I brought my first jar home, grabbed a spoon, and dug in.  Oh My…I was hooked.  I’ve been eating it with a spoon every since.  This is the first recipe that I have tried using […]

The best Giant M&M Cookies ever !

  When I make them M & M cookie, I don’t make regular cookies, I make super-giant sized cookies.  Using an ice cream scoop makes these giant cookies quick and easy.  It also makes them perfectly round (unless you place them too close together on your cookies sheet like I do sometimes). I made these cookies […]

Cinnamon Roll Monkey Bread

I have been making monkey bread with biscuits for years but I just recently started using cinnamon rolls.  Oh my….what an improvement.  I can’t begin to tell you how easy and how good these are. Let me warn you up front….these are not low calorie.  They are filled with buttery goodness and oh so sweet […]

Crown Jewel Cake

I’m always on the look out for new and different recipes when I ran across this recipe from sprinklebakes.com.  Let me know if you try it….it’s on  my to try list!    

Key Lime, White Chocolate, Macadamia Nut Cookies

Jump to Recipe Print Recipe  My local grocery store had 3 lb bags of key limes on sale for $1 a bag and I bought three bags.  That means I have 9 lbs of key limes that need to be used.  I have made key lime pie ice cream before and it was wonderful so […]

Chocolate Cherry & Raspberry Cookies

After every holiday, I buy candy when it goes on sale and put it in the freezer.  When I decide I want to bake something sweet, I go check out my candy stash in the Freezer. Once the decision was made to bake cookies today, I scrolled through Pinterest looking for inspiration.  I saw these […]

Strawberry, Mango and Kiwi Frozen Pops

  Lucky Brand website shares a strawberry, mango and kiwi Popsicle frozen treat … yummy. This can be a family fun dessert on a stick or dip them in a glass of champagne for conversation starter cocktail at your next party. Click here to read the recipe: http://luckybrand.com/blog/Ice-Pops,default,pg.html

Deep Fried Oreos

Deep Fried Oreos Ingredients • 1 (20 ounce) package Oreo cookies • 2 cups Bisquick • 2 eggs • 1 1/2 cups milk • 3 teaspoons oil • vegetable oil (enough for deep frying) Directions: Blend Bisquick, eggs, milk, and 3 tsp oil until smooth. Preheat your deep fryer to about 375°F (use a thermometer […]

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