Springerle cookies. They taste like Christmas memories. With every bite, I am taken back to a purer time, given fleeting glimpses into the holidays of my childhood. The cold, stark white winters of South Bend, Indiana. Long walks around the lake on the Notre Dame campus, feeding...
THERE'S LESS THAN ONE WEEK UNTIL CHRISTMAS!!! Can you even stand it?! I've got all kinds of prep left to do -- gift shopping and wrapping and baking and decorating, etc. etc. etc -- so I'm just stopping by to say Hi! and share my most...
Do you love the spicy bite of gingerbread men? Do you squeee!! at their cute little candy buttons and bowties, and dawww as you connect their tiny gingerman hands with dainty little gingerwoman hands because, they love each other (!!!)? Do you find yourself feeling guilty for biting off...
Full Disclosure: Today's post is sponsored by Nestle Toll House, but the following flood of warm and fuzzy words about their new DelightFulls Filled Baking Morsels is all my own. I’m coming back at ya’ with another cookie recipe today. It feels a little out the...
*Sure signs that Christmas is near:* My tacky Christmas sweater has been taken down from its perch on the top shelf of my closet, and I’ll be wearing it proudly this evening at my company Holiday party, with a pair of reindeer antlers to compliment, of...
Now that I’ve eaten my weight in dad’s special, butter-basted turkey, mom’s (ahem, Pepperidge Farm’s) herb stuffing and my sour cream pumpkin pie (minis this time), I can finally, without one speck of hey-one-holiday-at-a-time, lady guilt, write all mushy and excited-like about about CHRISTMAS!!! TWINKLE LIGHTS!...
Me + Pie. You might call us frenemies. I've always considered myself more of a cake girl. Until recently, I would eat pie once a year on Thanksgiving, and even then it was more an obligatory celebration of tradition (it's un-American not to eat pie...
Hi Friends! I hope you’re all having fabulous weeks – I’ve got some fun news! Today, I’m sharing these Honey Apple Cider Marshmallows over on the lovely & talented Jacquelyn’s beautiful blog, Lark & Linen. Jacquelyn has asked me to be a monthly desserts contributor (exciting!!)...
We all know that chocolate cake is made infinitely better by the addition of coffee, right? Please tell me you know/love/live by this rule. If you haven’t been adding espresso powder and/or subbing dark, strong coffee for liquids in your favorite chocolate cake recipe, LISTEN...
I had y'all worried, did't I? I almost let Halloween slip by without posting an appropriately themed recipe. Things just got busy, ya know? But if I had gone and let that happen, then what kind of food blogger would I be? The kind that let’s...