Halloween Recipes – 30 Spooktacular Ways to Celebrate the Holiday
These 25 spooktacular Halloween Recipes are the perfect way to celebrate this fun holiday. Halloween will be here before we know it. This holiday is such fun for kiddos and gives parents a chance to be a kid again, too! Halloween party food is fun, spooky and whimsical and looks great on a table. Check …
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10 Tips for Hosting a Cookie Exchange – Fun Ideas for a Cookie Swap
A cookie exchange is not just for Christmas.Halloween, Thanksgiving, Valentine’s day and Easter are also popular times for cookie swaps. This type of party is a fun way to share your favorite cookie recipes, since many holiday gatherings include a party dessert table. December 22 is recognized each year as National Cookie Exchange Day. To …
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Summer Desserts Ideas – Tips for a Dessert Table That Takes the Heat
Outdoor parties are so much fun, but how do you make sure that the summer desserts ideas that you choose are those that melt IN your mouth and not on the table? Keep these handy tips in mind for a fun outdoor summer dessert table that can take the heat. Outdoor entertaining is a fun …
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Party Dessert Table Ideas – 17 Tips to Make your Sweets Table Decor a Hit
Putting together a great looking table for desserts and sweets is not as hard as you might think. These easy party dessert table ideas will rock your next gathering. Do you have an upcoming occasion where you will be serving special desserts? Many get togethers, such as wedding and baby showers, mother’s day teas, charity …
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Skittles Sugar Cookies – A Rainbow Delight
These tasty Skittles sugar cookies are colorful and tasty and give a burst of flavor in each bite of the light sugar cookie base. They are a great choice to include on any party dessert table. Ever since I can remember, my daughter Jess has loved Skittles candy. It has always been a present from …
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Walnut Crescent Cookies – Vanilla Crescent Roll Cookie Recipe
These walnut crescent cookies are very delicate and tasty. The texture is light and fluffy and the flavor has a lovely hint of vanilla and cinnamon. Bring some to your holiday cookie swap and wait for rave reviews. The holidays are just around the corner and that always gets me thinking of making cookies. I …
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Pumpkin Spice Cookies – No Bake Gluten Free Pumpkin Cookies
Today’s pumpkin recipe are these delicious pumpkin spice cookies. They are sweetened with pure maple syrup and contain gluten free oats for a clean eating treat. In case you didn’t notice it, fall is on the way. On social media that means months of everything pumpkin! Pumpkin spice is something that I use all the …
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Chocolate Cherry Macaroons – Low Calorie Cookies
These chocolate cherry macaroons have a light and crunchy coconut and egg white base that is topped with a maraschino cherry and drizzled with rich, dark chocolate. They are a great choice for any party dessert table. Chocolates and cherries – I can’t think of anything that goes better together. If you love this taste …
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Holiday Kiss Cookies – A Festive Treat for Christmas
These holiday kiss cookies are an adaptation of a peanut butter version that my sister used to make for Christmas dessert but these are for those who don’t care for peanut butter. (WHO ARE YOU ANYWAY??) Many holiday gatherings include aparty dessert table and these would be a hit for sure. The are the perfect …
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No Bake Peanut Butter Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
Always a hit at pot luck dinners and summer barbecues, these no bake peanut butter chocolate oatmeal cookies have been made more healthy with a few easy substitutes. But don’t let that fool you – the flavor still rocks! No bake desserts are super easy to make, and come together in a flash without heating …
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Brownie Cookies From a Mix – These Awesome Brookies Rock!
Short on time, but big on the desire for treating your sweet tooth? These brownie cookies from a mix are a semi home made way to make snack time tasty in a flash. Get the scoop on making these “brookies” with my step by step tutorial. Have you ever heard of the term brookies? When …
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Oatmeal Chocolate Cookie Bars – (Gluten Free) Deep dish Cookie Bar Recipe
These gluten free deep dish oatmeal chocolate cookie bars are soft & chewy with the decadent taste of dark chocolate and brown sugar. This bar recipe is a cross between an chocolate chip cookie and an oatmeal bar and tastes amazing. Do you love the taste of magicbars?Those ooey gooey chocolate bars made withsweetened condensed …
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Candy Cane Kiss Cookies – Peppermint Kiss Cookie Recipe
These candy cane kiss cookies have a sugar cookie base topped with a peppermint candy kiss. They not only look great but taste amazing too. This delicious sweet treat is the perfect peppermint cookie recipe for a cookie swap. Each year for Christmas my sister would bring cookies with a Hershey kiss centerto our family …
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Homemade Cookie Day – Celebrate with your Favorite Cookie Recipe
Did you know that many foods have national days in their honor? October 1 is known as National Homemade Cookie Day. It seems appropriate that the first day of October would be given this honor, since October also starts three months of holiday celebrations where cookies play a big part. There are so many national …
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Orange Dark Chocolate Cookies with Macadamia Nuts
One of my favorite flavor combinations for cookies is orange and dark chocolate. It is bright and fresh with a decadent touch. These Orange Dark Chocolate Cookies have the addition of macadamia nuts for extra crunch and are just delicious! And best of all, the cookies are totally gluten free! Treating yourself to baked goods …
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Snickers Peanut Butter Cookies
June 12 is National Peanut Butter Cookie Day. Time to celebrate with the perfect recipe. These Snickers Peanut Butter Cookies, take everyone’s favorite cookie to a new height by adding Snicker’s candy to the recipe. I woke up this morning for a yen for cookies. I have a bag of Easter candy in the corner …
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Melting Moments Cookies
It is melt in your mouth time, folks. If you are looking for delicate cookies that are light as air and melt in your mouth, these Melting Moments Cookies really do their name justice. The cookies have a shortbread texture to them and are just delicious. Melting Moments Cookies – As light as Air and …
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Chocolate Pistachio Nut Bar Cookies – Perfect for a Cookie Swap
These chocolate pistachio nut bar cookies are the perfect way to use pistachios in my holiday baking. Christmas is the time of the year when we normally have pistachio nuts in our house. For some reason we have relegated them to the holidays. So any recipe that has pistachios in it reminds me of the …
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Irresistible Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Peanut butter and chocolate. A match made in cookie heaven. This recipe combines the best of both cookie types. These peanut butter chocolate chip cookies havethe best texture of any chocolate chip cookies that I have ever eaten. Are you a fan of chocolate and peanut butter, too? Be sure to check out my …
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24 Delicious Pumpkin Recipes
From now through most of the fall, pumpkins are in season and are used for decorations, for carving and for eating in various ways. You can, of course, use canned pumpkin, but why not try fresh pumpkin too? It is rich and creamy always makes a big difference in the taste of a recipe. These …
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25 Delicious Ways to Use Zucchini and Summer Squash
What is not to love about zucchini? It is a super easy to grow vegetable, especially for beginning gardeners, is prolific, is low in calories and tastes great. But by the end of the growing season, as long as you prevent squash bugs, you are likely to have bucket loads of it. Your neighbors will …
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Does Adding Cinnamon to your Diet have Health Benefits?
Cinnamon has long been touted as having many health benefits. Many reports seem to suggest that adding it to your diet can have an overall good effect on your health. Cinnamon tastes good on desserts. Should we add it liberally to foods? Before you reach for a bottle of cinnamon supplements, remember this: there is …
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Round up of 30 of my Favorite Italian Recipes
Viva Italia – Round up of Italian Recipes. My husband and I are very fond of Italian recipes. I love the full bodied flavor and since I garden as well, I keep Italian style herbs growing on my patio year round. My favorites are rosemary, thyme, oregano and basil. I thought it would be fun …
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20+ Easy Gluten Free recipes
Do you follow a gluten free diet for health reasons? If so, this collection of Gluten free recipes should be a great help to you. Over the last few years, our awareness of some of the problems with foods which contain gluten has risen sharply. Many readers, for health reasons, or sometimes to lose weight …
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Jumbo Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies – Not for the timid!
Peanut Butter sandwich cookies will tempt your sweet tooth! I am a peanut butteraholic. I love it in desserts, main courses, ice cream, drinks and anything else my mind can dream up. I’m a bit like Claire from Lost in that regard. This recipe for peanut butter sandwich cookies is not for the faint of …
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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies
These delicious peanut butter chocolate chip shortbread cookies combine the best of three worlds – chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies and shortbread – into one delicious treat. I’ve long been a fan of the texture of shortbread cookies. They are crisp and light with a delicate flavor. Adding chocolate chips and peanut butter into …
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