Feliz Cinco de Mayo! I hope that you are celebrating with tubs full of guacamole and margaritas! Or is that just a Texas thing? Here in Texas, we have strong roots in Mexican heritage. For example, Tex-Mex. That cheesy, greasy cross between traditional Mexican and cowboy foods, best washed...
In honor of Throwback Thursday (#tbt) I'm sharing another throwback recipe like, Nancy's Whiskey Cake. This recipe has been in my family for a very, very long time. How long, I don't actually know but my mom ate Zucchini Bread as a little girl. It holds...
In my mind, oatmeal cookies are healthier than other cookies. Sure, they still have butter and refined sugar in them. But they also have oats. Oats do all sorts of things. Like lower cholesterol...
I was looking through my posts the other day and realized that I have been neglecting you. I apologize. How I could let this much time pass without sharing a single recipe containing the gloriousness that is peanut butter is an embarassment. If there is...
I am one happy girl on this lovely (HOT! high of 90 degrees!) Monday. I had LASIK on Friday! No more glasses for me! I did really like my specs - they will be missed - but it was time for us to part ways....
As I was looking for a good Cookie Cake recipe, I came across quite a few that include cornstarch in the recipe. Huh? Cornstarch in cookies? The only things I've ever done with cornstarch are add it to gravy and make homemade silly putty. The rest...
This post is in honor of my fabulously youthful, eternally restless mother who recently upped her crazy on me. Moms do that sometimes, right? Mine can't be the only one. Anyway. My mother, like most other women, is constantly searching for the fountain of youth. She...
I'm on a cleanse. And that means I'm grumpy. I'm grumpy so I'm making cupcakes to cheer myself up. The only problem is, I can't taste test anything. Ugh. Anyway, my coworker Dustin and I went to lunch the other day. Since I'm on a cleanse we had...
My boss's favorite cupcakes are Strawberry. So what do you do when it's your boss's birthday and you happen to love to bake? You suck up. You suck up by making the fanciest strawberry cupcakes that you have ever made. That's right people, none of that box cake...