The Pioneer Woman Chocolate Peppermint Cookies Usually the first week of December, my family hunkers down in the kitchen. Bowls, baking sheets, chocolate, and flour find their way onto every flat surface in our kitchen and dining room. Christmas baking takes over. Literally. Each year, my family makes our same holiday cookie staples, like these…
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Turtle Pumpkin Pie
Turtle Pumpkin Pie Drum roll please…. It’s November! And that means the holiday season is upon us. From now through the first of the year, my days are spent planning, prepping, and pining for all my favorite holiday festivities and food. I love Christmas and everything it is about, but pulling together a Thanksgiving meal…
Caramel Apple Mini Tarts
Caramel Apple Mini Tarts A year ago I was just returning home from a trip to Western New York to visit my college friend, Bailey and her family. Bailey lives on her family’s apple orchard and at the time of my visit they were right in the middle of harvest. Because of the impeccable timing,…
Chocolate Peanut Butter Special K Bars
Chocolate Peanut Butter Special K Bar Chocolate and peanut butter is by far my favorite culinary combination there is. Whether it be a Reese’s peanut butter cup or a bowl full of puppy chow, when chocolate or peanut butter are involved I can’t be trusted anywhere near the dessert table at a potluck. These Chocolate…
Copycat DQ Ice Cream Cake
Copycat DQ Ice Cream Cake My birthday is in June. The best part of having a birthday in the summer months is that instead of a plain ‘ol vanilla or chocolate cake, I usually was treated with an ice cream cake from Dairy Queen! It never really seems like my special day, without a grilled…
Peanut Butter Snickers Cookies
Snickers Cookies There are only a couple recipes that I remember copying down onto an index card and adding to my first recipe box. The recipes for perfect, creamy coleslaw and the first cookies I ever remember baking by myself; Snickers Cookies.