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As I type I'm putting together my Easter dinner shopping list for Saturday. Why I always wait until the last minute to get everything together is beyond me. While I don't have the dinner completely planned out, I know exactly what we'll be having for dessert. Over the past few weeks I've tried out some new ideas, practiced a few recipes and come up with a variety of Easter desserts full of bright color and sweet flavors. LEMON CHEESECAKE … [Read more...]
It's a little crazy how quickly Easter snuck up me this year. If you're feeling the same way, don't fret because there's still time to put together and Easter dinner and dessert menu that will be fun for the kids to help make and delicious enough for everyone to eat. McCormick is offering a Spring Look Book that gives you a glimpse of dozens of recipes that cover, brunch, dinner, appetizers and of course, my favorite, desserts. One of those … [Read more...]
With Easter just a week away, now is the time to start planning all of your Easter desserts. It's always a tradition in our home to spend a weekend before Easter baking our favorites including sugar cookies, pastel Rice Krispies treats and of course dying Easter Eggs. In fact, my mom will be coming over tomorrow to spend the afternoon with me and the kids whipping up some goodies. If you're looking for some ideas, these Rice Krispies M&M … [Read more...]
Blondies. White Chocolate. M&Ms. Is there any better combination than that? I think not. Which is why I put them all together to create these mini blondie sticks. Yum! The weather started heating up last week ... crazy warm ... to the point I had to turn on the air conditioning. In March! Instead of reheating the house with oven I thought now would be a good time to pull out the KitchenAid Convection Countertop Oven I've … [Read more...]
It's hard to believe Easter Sunday is just two weeks away. Seems like I was just celebrating St. Patrick's Day not long ago and here we are getting the plastic eggs filled and baskets full of goodies. Among many of our families traditions, my favorite, dying Easter eggs is something the kids always look forward to. They get a chance to get messy and I get a dozen hard boiled eggs to munch on for breakfast. This year we started a new tradition … [Read more...]
There's a lot of things that can be said about the Pioneer Woman's recipes but the fact that one actually caused a marital spat is probably not one of them. Until now. You see, I had this great idea to turn her famous cinnamon rolls into a sweet Easter breakfast and decided to try the recipe out early one morning. The idea was to surprise the family with a made from scratch breakfast they could enjoy together. Instead, it started an … [Read more...]
Carrot Cake. Hmph. Truthfully, I'm not sure if I like this stuff. You see, I used a box mix, the Duncan Hines one with the real (dehydrated carrots and raisins). So this puts me in a position where I think I need to try a homemade carrot cake recipe before judging it because the box mix version was kinda gross. I suppose gross is a strong word but the spices in the cake batter were just way too strong for my liking. The density and moisture … [Read more...]
This is going to sound really odd but I loathe nuts. All of them. I can't name a single nut I like, including the widely loved peanut. But. I love Pistachios. Yes, I know they're a nut but they really don't taste like anything especially when they're mixed in with pistachio pudding. *Love* Growing up I loved when my mom would bring home a cup of pistachio pudding (which I later learned is actually called Watergate Salad) from the … [Read more...]
This morning my children woke up to a mass of pastel candy melts, Rice Krispies Treats and Peeps bunnies all over our island. My youngest excitedly screeched, is it Easter mommy? Imagine her disappointment when I had to tell her Easter is still over a month away but that doesn't mean we can't start celebrating now. After all, Easter treats are more fun when they're around the house for several weeks leading up to the actual holiday. I like to … [Read more...]
Three simple ingredients combined together make one of my absolute favorite treats of all time. Butter. Marshmallows. Rice Krispies cereal. We're talking about Rice Krispies Treats my friends. They're easy enough for a child to make (with supervision of course) and can be molded into just about any shape imaginable. For Easter, we thought it would be fun to mold our treats into egg shapes. It all starts with a very simple recipe ... 4 … [Read more...]
