While the sprinkles and sparkles look more along the lines of a Mardi Gras, pre-Lenten celebration, we’ll just pretend the yellow, green, and purple decor celebrate YOU and all of yours, each and every day: yellow for your sunshine, green for your goodness, and purple for your royal heart! Plus, it’s just an excuse to…
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Life is a bowl of cherries 🍒That’s my attitude, anyway.Nothing is IN my control, as much as I’d like to worry it into that way – It’s just not.Thus, I might as well accept it all with positivity, FEEL it all in any and every way, and visualize a bowl of sweet, sweet cherries, a…
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Craving cupcakes 🧁? (well, of course – who isn’t?)Craving chocolate? (OF COURSE)Craving citrus? (yes, we all love fresh oranges and ’tis the season for citrus!)Craving cognac? (if you’re not sure, you’ve not yet had the best of the best for creamy, buttery, sweet solace in a sip).Craving4More (YES!!!!) Chocolate Orange Cognac Cupcakes! Chocolate Orange Cognac…
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My all-time favorite Christmas cookie is the “peanut butter ball” or traditional Buckeye. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! I could go to town on those – and most certainly DID, many a day in my childhood, alongside handfuls of Peanut M&Ms.Oh, my Merry Christmas memories will always make me smile. While I’m definitely still…
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After the truly orgasmic feedback I received from the Orange Pecan Chocolate Caramel Graham Million Dollar Bars (seriously – you should see these text exchanges from the recipients), I decided another shortbread recipe was in oder. This time a little fruit – strawberry – and chocolate, of course. And, when I delivered to the boys…
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Lotus is worth far more than a simple $1,000,000, I mean, c’mon! She’s my very favorite little lady on earth. She so strong, she’s so smart, she’s so resilient, she’s so curious, she stunningly beautiful, and she’s always up for fun. I aspire to be more like her. Thus, for Lotus’ TWO years celebration of…
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A sandwich cookie, also known as a sandwich biscuit, is a type of cookie made from two thin cookies or medium cookies with a filling between them. Many types of fillings are used, such as cream, ganache, buttercream, chocolate, cream cheese, jam, peanut butter, lemon curd, or ice cream. And that’s that! Today we have…
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Chocolate are one thing – one thing GREAT! Especially made with rich, whole milk, chocolate milk! OMG!But, adding blueberries to the batter, and then topping with a fresh, homemade, creamy vanilla buttercream and more fresh blueberries, we are all in heaven! Chocolate Blueberry Buttercream Cupcakes! Chocolate Blueberry Buttercream Cupcakes Chocolate Cupcakes:1 cup all purpose flour1/2…
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“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet.” -William Shakespeare I adore the scent, the aroma, the feel, and the flavor of rose – oh, and the sheer beauty the bloom offers in any and every way. “The gentle rose offers a powerful joy known only to the heart.”…
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I love using sweetened condensed milk as a substitute for eggs and sugar sometimes when I bake. The SCM adds a layer something just a little bit different – it softens the dough and the resulting cookie – and leads to sort of a “cakey” consistency. We all crave crispy cookies at times, other times…
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