Smooth, dark chocolate holds tender currants, almonds, and a spicy little kick! You will want it all for yourself, but your family may be on to you! It’s a challenge to hide chocolate in this house. My children have shown great talent in quickly locating chocolate stashes – my chocolate stashes. Once they find them […]
Sweet Tooth Snack Mix
A sweet snack mix made of cereal, nuts, chocolate and even sprinkles! It’ll make you smile and definitely satisfy your sweet tooth! This is snack mix made with my daughter in mind. She is away at college and, college is about a lot of extremes: extremely intense classes, extremely late nights, and extreme stress. No wonder […]
Sweet Potato Pie
A creamy, sweet potato pie was a new adventure for my family – and we loved it! A few years back I did a series of 26 pies from A to Z, and some of those pies are on my blog today (like the Vichyssoise Leek & Potato Pie, Wee Little Blueberry Pies and Toffee […]
Brie & Fig Mini Puffs
Easy to assemble puff pastries filled with brie, fig and apple make a wonderful, sweet little appetizer to set out at your next gathering. This post may contain affiliate links. When thinking about fanci-ish appetizers to set out for parties what comes to mind is brie. I recently attended a games-and-appetizers gathering and one of […]
New Year’s Eve Appetizers Roundup!
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 […]