Guest Post: Good Old-Fashioned Chocolate Chip Cookies

(Here’s another post by Julie, yay!) It must be done. These chocolate chip cookies are just too good to keep a secret any longer. These cookies have been passed down the generations from Drew’s and my grandmother. They’re made with sugar, brown sugar, Crisco, eggs, flour, vanilla, salt, baking soda, oatmeal, chocolate chips, and optional [...]

Hooray For Chocolate Cookies!

This last week has been exceedingly busy, meaning I haven’t had time to sit down and write a proper post. Alas, only time for improper posts. In any case, here are some cookies to tide you over in the meantime: Chocolate cake mix cookies, with chocolate chips and pecans added in for good measure. The [...]

Pillsbury Cheesecake Swirl Brownie Mix

I love box mix brownies. I rarely make brownies from a recipe because box mix brownies are already so freaking good. So we recently got a box of Pillsbury Cheesecake Swirl brownie mix. The only thing cheesecake could possibly to do brownies is improve upon them, so this had to be a good thing, right? [...]

Chocolate Pecan Caramel Apple

There are two types of caramel apples in this world, those that can be eaten on a stick and those that can’t. Well, plus that middle ground of caramel apples that *can* be eaten on a stick, but are more easily eaten with a fork and knife. Plus the fact that the higher the age [...]

Magical Sparkly Cupcakes

Yeah, I totally used a box mix for these. I use cake box mixes all the time, because they are easy and delicious. And, when I do otherwise, it is because I’m using a box mix plus a “Cake Mix Doctor” cookbook recipe. Not that I haven’t made an occasional cake from scratch, but generally [...]

Pi Day: Chocolate Pecan Pie

So for all of you in the know, this past Sunday was Pi Day (of the 3.14 variety). And now all of you *are* in the know, hooray! I was ill prepared for it, and did not have a pie (or a post about pie, for that matter) ready. So, Sunday evening, I decided to [...]

Chocolate Cake Balls are the Balls of the Gods

Well, not literally, as in we’re not talking about male gods specifically here. More like, if gods ate food, and if they liked eating their food in ball form, this is the sort of food they’d be eating. For dessert. Unless they were really unhealthy gods, then they might just eat them all the time. [...]

Delicious Baked Apples

Baked apples are so freaking good. This is not a particularly new revelation. Rather, it is a revelation that is good to re-experience when one has a surplus of apples and a desire to turn some of them into sugar. How convenient and exciting for me, that I had apples of multiple varieties! I decided [...]

Mary’s Mountain Cookies in Breckenridge, Co

For the last several days, about 1/2 of all of the food that I’ve eaten could easily be placed in the category of “dessert.” This is a combination of everyone who buys me presents knowing that I like chocolate and many people that I visit disliking having bunches of junk food around after a gathering, [...]

Easy Truffles and Mint Bark

A few years back, I decided to make truffles. The recipe was rather simple, and the truffles themselves came out looking and tasting quite nice, so I decided to recreate them again to give as presents this year. First off, here’s the recipe for the truffles: Beat an 8 oz. package of cream cheese until [...]

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