If you haven’t noticed on my blog, I have a love for anything with pineapple. I have made pineapple upside-down cakes many, many times. They are always a big hit and disappear quickly. This time I am making cupcakes, but I added more chopped pineapple to the batter. Love the addition, I think you will …
Desserts
Are you looking for the best pumpkin dessert for Thanksgiving? I know that my family will freak if I don’t make pumpkin pie – they have already requested pies for our Thanksgiving dessert table. Really I do love everything pumpkin and have lists of pumpkin desserts that I am baking this fall. Pumpkin cookies, cakes, …
When you need a quick dessert for the holidays that is super easy and so delicious! Try this Better than Pumpkin Pie Cake! The recipe uses a cake mix which makes it easier than pie~ I just had to! With a pumpkin pie base and yummy cake top! Buttery cake topping with crunchy nuts makes …
The only thing making me let go of summer is falling into the fall, with the idea of apple picking in the warm sunshine under grand sunflowers swaying in the wind. Fall brings us apples, pumpkins, gourds, squash, and the season for baking! Fall is the time for all desserts being apple and pumpkin…now let’s …
Let’s face it, something stuffed is better than flat, especially when it comes to food and desserts! I have been on a stuffed pancake (Ebelskiver) kick! I love my Ebelskiver pan and making the stuffed pancakes is so fun and festive. We had a brunch party and I made blueberry stuffed pancakes, and cherry and …
This cake! It’s like a giant Coconut Macaroon covered in chocolate. I really love coconut and chocolate. This is my favorite childhood cake. My Great Grandma, Martha Cook loved to bake this cake. We, as kids, loved to eat this cake. Vanilla Wafer Cake with a Chocolate Drizzle! If you love coconut, you will love …
Chocolate Mint Fudge Crumb Bars. A very indulgent dessert bar.
It’s one of my favorite seasons in Maine…apple picking season! I am always over-zealous when it comes to picking apples! My favorites are Honey Crisp, Gala, Macintosh, and Pink Lady apples. My mind starts racing trying to decide what to bake first…apple pie, apple pie bars, apple cake, apple sticky buns? Hiding the apples isn’t …
I love warm brownies out of the oven…..oh yeah, that ooey gooey chocolate dribbling down your chin… wait! You can make this in your slow cooker! Just set it and you can leave your house all day and come back to this amazing smell of warm brownie pudding wafting in your home! This is one …
This really is the best apple cake. The kind of cake that you want to sneak nibbles from and know your diet is doomed if you keep it in the house, especially since your kids are at college and not home to save you from yourself. It’s so moist and cinnamony and that cream cheese …
We were invited to a dinner party and I was asked to bring a Blueberry Cobbler. I chose this recipe because it is so amazingly delicious and MY FAVORITE kind of recipe~ EAAASY!! Easy!!
We had such a fun week with our big kids and grandkids, love being a tourist in Maine. We swam, we hiked, we motored around in the little boat around the harbor. We ate our selves silly and wished we had another week before starting back to school. We moved our youngest into college, and …