dessert

Rich and delicious. This Chocolate Brownie Trifle is layered brownie, chocolate mousse, and whipped cream perfection. I usually try and have some kind of cohesive story that goes with my blog posts, a snippet of personal history to accompany my recipe, a silly story to recount, sometimes even something just a little bit meaningful. Well, not today, this week I’ve got a mishmash of random stuff to tell you guys. 1.) I read Amy Poehler’s biography last week and was…

 This Pear Plum Galette is sweet and tart. Flaky pastry crust is filled with juicy pears and plums, then brushed with a red plum and honey glaze. This fresh summer dessert is ready in about 30 minutes and is fabulously easy to make. Sometimes people forget they like things. Whether it’s time or circumstance, the fact that we liked a particular thing fades away, a forgotten memory. I had a couple forgotten memories surface this week. We are well into…

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #EffortlessPies #CollectiveBias Most people eat pumpkin pie  about once a year. My kids eat pumpkin pie almost every single Sunday. No joke. They like it so much that they request my mother in law make it every week for dessert at Sunday dinner. Most of the time, she does. I’d say she bakes around 200 pumpkin pies a year. We have a big family…

Tender buttery pastry crust, cinnamon and brown sugar soaked apples, all baked into mini tarts that will fit in the palm of your hand. My mother in law is obsessed with all things tiny. If it comes in a miniature size, you can be guaranteed you will find it somewhere in her house. She has miniature Tupperware bowls, tiny  salt and pepper shakers, miniscule measuring spoons, and itty bitty Fisher-Price toys the size of key chain bobbles just to name…

Creamy and sweet. Crunchy and salty. This Pumpkin Spice Bark is the best of both worlds and is sure to win over any pumpkin lover in your life. It’s getting cooler. Some leaves are starting to fall. I love it. I hate it. I’m already freezing even though the coolest it’s gotten has been down in the 60s.  Freezing.   Things I like about fall:   The changing of the leaves. Sweaters, boots, and scarves. And blankets. Football season. Fall…

Lightly spiced cake studded with apples, drenched with caramel butterscotch, and finished with whipped topping! It’s as simple as ABC and so delicious you’ll say it’s all for me. School started here last week. As a stay at home mom, I have this love/hate relationship with the school year. I love the structure and routine that school brings with it. I hate having my kids gone so much and having to wake up so early and all the different activity…

I wish that everything was as good and as simple as this fresh peach kuchen. I tell you if it was the world would be a lot happier place. It’s like a hug on a plate. We usually go spend Memorial day weekend down at the Lake of the Ozarks with my husbands whole family. 14 kids and 8 adults. It’s a wild, wild time. However, this year we didn’t get to go down because of my daughter’s track meet.…

Okay, I’m just going to be real with you guys. Today I had a ginormous reminder of one of the main reasons I wanted to start a recipe blog… Imperfection. Say, what? How could imperfection be a motivator for starting a blog? Well for a while I told myself that I was not smart enough to learn how to run a website, that I was too old, that I wasn’t pretty enough to run a recipe blog or put my…

I know Valentine’s day has come and gone, but I want to talk about love…and food. Love and cooking go hand and hand. I don’t care if y’all disagree, because in my little head this is truth. We cook for the people around us that we care for.   Sorry guys, but I already had this post written up when I realized that the food that went with today’s post actually made an equals sign on the pan, so I…