Desserts

Soft and fluffy banana cupcakes capture everything you love about banana bread and then take it over the top with the addition of creamy and smooth peanut butter frosting. Peanut butter plus banana is one of my favorite peanut butter combinations!  You wanna know the problem with bananas and food blogging? It’s a vicious circle. You use the ripe bananas in your recipes, but then need to buy a few more bananas that are pretty for the pictures which then…

This Caramel Apple Dump Cake is the easiest, yet most delicious cake you will bake this fall. With only 4 ingredients and 5 steps it’s completely goof proof.  I don’t know about you, but I get so excited about fall baking. There’s just something so incredibly homey and comforting about baking with my favorite fall flavors like apples, pears, pumpkins and caramel.  Today’s dump cake is the epitome of easy fall baking! This recipe is perfect for making with your…

Simple ingredients, stunning results. You won’t believe how easy this blackberries and cream pie is to make, nor the creamy and decadent pie that you’ll get in return for so little work. This recipe will make it straight to your keeper file the first time you make it! That’s what happened to me.  I picked so many blackberries this year. I’ve been trying out a ton of  fun new blackberry recipes to share with you, but this pie has been…

Rhubarb Ginger Upside Down Cake is pretty, old fashioned, and baked in a cast iron skillet just like my grandma used to do. It’s easy to make and you don’t need any special tools, not even a mixer. The pairing of ginger with rhubarb has an exotic, yet old-fashioned flair to it. This isn’t your run of the mill rhubarb dessert. Rhubarb can sometimes be tricky. You never know how tart your rhubarb might be and this cake is easy…

Lemon Cowboy Cookies are chewy lemon cookies made with oatmeal, crispy rice cereal, flaked coconut, and diced candied lemon peel. These cookies have chewy centers with bits of candied lemon peel and crispy edges.  Have you ever had a cowboy cookie? Or maybe you heard them called ranger cookies? They’re both pretty much the same thing, a cookie that’s loaded with extra goodness in the form of oats, crisp rice cereal, coconut, sometimes nuts and chocolate. Cowboy cookies were kind…

The bright and fresh citrus flavor of Key Lime Pie shines through in these fun Key Lime Pie Shortbread Cookies. An easy to make slice and bake cookie that’s topped with a sweet and tart lime glaze.   I know the internet hates food blogger stories, but here’s the story about this key lime pie cookie recipe. You may know, I live in a tiny town in rural Missouri. By some chance of fate, I found beautiful key limes at…

Pistachio swirl fudge is an easy to make candy recipe that results in a rich and creamy pastel green pistachio fudge that’s studded with chopped pistachios and swirled with dark chocolate. This is one of those candies that looks complex but is actually so easy to make. If you have mastered melting chocolate and stirring stuff, then you’ve got the skills to make a beautiful plate of pistachio swirled fudge. You might also enjoy these Rocky Road Haystacks too, same…

White Chocolate Cranberry Shortbread Cookies have fresh chopped cranberries for a beautiful red speckled appearance with a buttery crisp texture and are dipped in white chocolate. Shortbread cookies are one of my favorite cookies to bake around the holidays, if they are one of your favorites,  you will definitely want to check out my other shortbread recipes while you’re at it.  These White Chocolate Cranberry Shortbread cookies are perfect for using up fresh cranberries. They have a buttery sweet flavor with…

Thick and soft German gingerbread cookies hearken to Christmases of old. These pretty chocolate and nut topped cookies have a unique taste and history. German gingerbread cookies are also known as Lebkuchen. These traditional German Christmas cookies are thick and soft gingerbread cookies with a unique spice blend that gives an old world flavor. Topped with chocolate and nuts, these pretty cookies look unlike the modern and colorful confections we see around Christmas time now. One bonus of these cookies,…

Apple cinnamon bars are part apple blondie and part gooey cinnamon coffee cake. This no fuss recipe yields a dessert with crispy cinnamon brown sugar edges that enfold a gooey apple pecan center. Top it with ice cream for an over the top end to your favorite meal.   I should be embarrassed to tell you what these apple bars are called in my house. My boys have lovingly dubbed this recipe, “apple crap.” And because it has apples and…