Super Easy Chocolate Pumpkin Cookies That Vaguely Resemble Brownies

So in the grand scheme of Putting Things Off Until After The Last Minute, I will write about pumpkin cookies now that Thanksgiving is officially over. Oops! But never fear, pumpkin items are meant to, nay demand to be enjoyed year-round, as often as possible. My initial intent was to make some pumpkin spice cookies [...]

I can crush through marzipan (and mandalhoernchen!) like nobody’s business!

Marzipan is truly the Crushed Nut Confection Of The Gods. Not those namby-pamby American marzipan candies that are all sugary and look like fruit, either. I’m talking seriously awesome European marzipan. Yes, maybe that makes me a marzipan elitist, but I don’t care. Sometimes it’s necessary to be an elitist when certain things are significantly [...]

Boston Cream Pie, aka Pudding Saves The Day!

Boston cream pie is so freaking good. You New Englanders have no idea how good you have it, with your pie trees and all. Living in Colorado, we are not so fortunate as to have access to pie trees (too dry out here or something). So when I want a Boston cream pie, I’ve gotta [...]

Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Eggrolls, Delicious Even When Half Raw

So those eggrolls I made recently? Lots of wrappers left after the filling was all used up. Your average pack of eggroll wrappers can make far more eggrolls then my scrawny arms are capable of rolling in an evening. Conveniently, they store quite well in the freezer, ready to be taken out when the next [...]

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 [...]

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