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 [...]

Festive Sugar Cookies

So, I recently decided that it was sugar-cookie making time. I am a big fan of sugar cookies, and Christmas generally provides a good excuse for making them. It’s the same recipe that I’ve used for approximately forever and a half for making sugar cookies, and I shall include it here: 1/2 cup butter/margarine 1/4 [...]

Cake-like brownies with “snow” on them

Outside, it is currently snowing and 17 degrees. This puts one in mind to think about things covered in white stuff as well as things to add on very important layers of fat. Snow-flecked brownies meet this description. So, I decided to make these dump bar brownies and hope for the best. I did the [...]

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