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Banana Chocolate Crumb Muffins

March 15, 2009

I absolutely love muffins for breakfast. They’re perfect to whip up on the weekend to keep through the week. A good muffin and a piece of fruit and I’m a happy camper in the morning! I love making banana muffins cause I’m not big on bananas even though they’re good for you, but put them [...]

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Foodbuzz 24,24,24: A Night of Texas Hold 'Em

March 1, 2009

We love entertaining and don’t do it as much as we should but we’re working on it! One of the things we’ve been trying to stick to over the last 8-9 months is having a regularly scheduled game night. We’ve had 3 or 4 to date and they’re always a hit. The thing we haven’t [...]

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Chocolate Cupcakes with Cream Filling

February 25, 2009

Hubby has a total sweet tooth, especially for bad for you store-bought treats like Hostess cakes and Little Debbies. Its been awhile since I’ve done any real baking so I figured I’d whip up something for him this weekend and remembered seeing these Homemade Hostess Cupcakes awhile back. I did some searching and found several [...]

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Muddy Buddies

February 2, 2009

I’ve been bad about keeping up with the blog! I’m trying to do better but honestly, right now I’m doing good if I even bother to spend 10 minutes cleaning up the house. I’m embarrassed by how big of a mess it is. Work is crazy and probably only going to get worse before it [...]

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Ally's Cookies

December 14, 2008

I have no idea who Ally is. I know I got this recipe from my Grandmother who got it from my Great Aunt Nona, who I guess got it from someone named Ally? Whoever Ally is!
This recipe is a definitely a favorite. They remind me of Christmas cause it the only time I remember ever [...]

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Peanut Butter Blossoms

December 10, 2008

Its the infamous peanut butter hershey kiss cookies! For someone who isn’t a huge fan of peanut butter and chocolate together, I sure eat an awful lot of these when I whip up a batch! They’re soo good! And probably one of hubby’s favorites. They’re so easy, they look great and they’re very [...]

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Chocolate Chip Tea Cookies

December 8, 2008

Don’t you just love holiday baking? Your waistline may not but the taste buds certainly do! I’ve started the massive undertaking called holiday baking. I managed to do about 17 dozen cookies this weekend! So stay tuned all week long for new cookie recipe!
This recipe is one that I’ve had saved since last Christmas and [...]

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Thick & Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

October 30, 2008

I just wrote about my new favorite chocolate chip cookies but I thought I’d also write about hubby’s new favorite chocolate chip cookies. Everyone looks for something a little different when it comes to chocolate chip cookies. For some its that thick & chewy bakery like cookie. But I don’t like cookie dough and thus [...]

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My new fave Chocolate Chip Cookies

October 28, 2008

Chocolate Chip Cookies. Everyone always has that constant battle to find THE chocolate chip cookie recipe, and when you do finally find it… you never let it go. I’ve tried and enjoyed many a chocolate chip cookie but I think these might very well be my favorite.

I stumbled across this recipe on Erin Cooks at [...]

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Oatmeal, chocolate chip pecan cookies

June 14, 2008

My 21 (soon to be 22) year old sister in law is spending her summer working on a ranch in Colorado. Since she’s far from home and off by herself, I thought I’d send her a little bit of home… some cookies! Especially since her birthday is just around the corner I knew [...]

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Grandmother's Chocolate Pie

February 25, 2008

My Grandmother has always been in charge of the chocolate pie in our family because she makes really great chocolate pie. Other family members are more than welcome to have their hand at the other pies for the holidays… but grandmother always makes the chocolate pie (well the pecan too). They’re delicious. For a [...]

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M&M Cookies

January 1, 2008

Happy new year! Post Christmas sales = inexpensive candy = M&M cookies I hit up Target the day after Christmas and got myself a $0.64 bag (or two) of M&Ms in preparation of my sister in law’s visit, so she’d have something to take back to school with her. I’ve actually never made [...]

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Buche de Noel (Yule Log)

December 22, 2007

I’m proud to announce I am now a Daring Baker. December was the perfect time to join Daring Bakers as the Christmas baking season is upon us. What are the Daring Bakers? The Daring Bakers are a group dedicated to pushing the limits of their collective love — baking! Each month a challenge is set [...]

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Chocolate Crinkles

December 19, 2007

Finally a blog update! Work has been really busy as we’ve been preparing for the holidays. But I needed a break from all the house cleaning, wrapping, shopping & work so I made a batch of chocolate cookies. Chocolate crinkles to be exact. I think these are probably my favorite cookies. I made them for [...]

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Chocolate Banana Nut Bread

November 17, 2007

I had three ripe bananas which usually means its time to make some Banana Bread. But I was craving chocolate… so chocolate banana nut bread it was! I tweaked my banana bread recipe and the result was amazing! This is definitely my new favorite quick bread. It is so decadently wonderful. Its moist and sweet [...]

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