As New Year’s Eve approaches, you may be wondering what delicious treats you can put out at your cocktail party, or you need an appetizer to bring to a gathering! Here are 5 ideas for New Year’s Eve appetizers: some savory and some sweet. They are unique, sumptuous and all but one can be picked […]
Merry Christmas! The 20 Days of Cookies & Treats Perfect for the iHolidays
Thank you for coming along for the sweet and sugary ride this month as we counted down 20 Days of Cookies & Treats. I loved hearing from you and chatting about the goodies, and I am just tickled to hear that you gave these recipes a try! Making sweet treats, both the classics and and […]
Peanut Butter Balls
This recipe… these Peanut Butter Balls are just sublime. My sister and I have fond memories of these delicacies appearing at our house and at our grandmother’s house during the holidays. For this reason they are to me a Christmastime treat, even though the ingredients are on hand year-round. I remember one year at Gram’s […]
Spicy Gingersnaps
Gingersnaps are sweet, spicy, and deliciously welcome at any time of the year. Gingersnaps do of course hold extra appeal during the fall and during holiday seasons, when one anxiously anticipates treats filled with cinnamon, clove, and ginger! (At least, that’s how I feel… that’s how everyone feels, right?) I included these treats in my first […]
Chocolate, Granola & Peanut Butter Bites
Chewy, chocolaty, candy bites loaded with granola, raisins, almonds and an undercurrent of peanut butter. This recipe was born of using stuff up. The first item I had to start using up is a granola cereal that our boy saw at Costco and thought he would love for breakfast. Because this was purchased from Costco […]
Gingersnap Rolled Chocolate Truffles
This is another one of those miraculous recipes borne of the luck of having things on hand and sudden inspiration. On hand in this case was half a box of gingersnap cookies and most of a bag of dark chocolate chips. While trying to think of a simple, sumptuous dessert to make for New Year’s […]
Black Widow Chocolate-Dipped Cookies
Continuing my homage to Avengers movies and characters most recently seen in Avengers: Infinity War, I present this sweet treat. Black Widow, aka Natasha Romanoff played by Scarlett Johansson, is the badass Russian assassin, spy, S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, and the first female member of the Avengers. (In the movie universe, that is. My husband and son tell […]
Spicy Chocolate Brownies En Fuego
Spicy cayenne pepper in the cream cheese layer of these brownies provides a fiery contrast to the sweetness throughout. When I first created this recipe four years ago, it was during the Blogging From A to Z blogfest for which I created a recipe for every letter of the alphabet. To fill the slot for […]
Cranberry Nutella Sandwich Cookies
I’ve been playing with several cranberry recipes this holiday season, but this one is my favorite so far! I love to pick up several bags of cranberries and stash them in the freezer, to have on hand for cranberry sauce, Cranberry Eggnog Muffins, and now for these tender sandwich cookies. There is something so delicious […]
Chocolate-Dipped Lime Chips
During a period of intense chocolate experimentation (it was a glorious time) I dipped some chips in dark, smooth chocolate. This post may contain affiliate links. I had a huge block of semisweet Callebaut chocolate, a gift from my sister and I used it to make several desserts including Coconut Almond Drops. It is such good chocolate, […]
Cheerios & Apple Bars
Pumpkin Spice Cheerios plus plenty of apples make sweet perfect-for-fall bars! Or, use Apple-Cinnamon or Maple Cheerios for a delightful and just as tasty twist! This post may contain affiliate links. There are a lot of funny memes and videos that mock the annual pumpkin spice craze. But hey, come October we’ve all just […]
Coconut Almond Drops
This recipe is adapted from a recipe I found amidst my grandmother’s recipes, and the original only had two ingredients: coconut and sweetened condensed milk! These uber-sweet treats are like a macaroon cookie, but with the minimal ingredients – basically just coconut and sugar, they are also like a candy! And what better to stick […]