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Cinnamon Pecan Muffins

These muffins, while a tad bit crumbly, are so incredibly delicious. I have a true and undying love for pecans, and so these had me from the very beginning. The combination of cinnamon and pecans in these muffins is wonderful, and greasing and sugaring the muffins cups gave them such a great crunchy, sweet exterior. [...]

Brown Butter Toffee Blondies

Martha Stewart offers a “Cookie of the Day” email that I have been getting for over a year now. I have made a few of these cookies, but rarely do the cookies just scream out and beg for me to make them. These brown butter blondies, however, were something I just couldn’t resist. Browned butter [...]

Mexican Wedding Cookies

Aren’t these yummy looking? It doesn’t hurt that I put them on my cute new summery tray! These shortbread-like cookies are rich, buttery, full of pecans and covered in a lovely layer of sweet powdered sugar. They are a bit crumbly and I found them to be a bit dry as well. But the flavor [...]

Blueberry Lemon Cheesecake Bars

Summer is coming, and summer calls for light, refreshing summer-y desserts. These lemon blueberry cheesecake bars blend the perfect amount of sweetness, tartness, richness, creaminess and crunchiness. You could probably use any berry with good results. I love the combination of lemon and blueberry, so these are my kind of dessert bar. They are very [...]

Carrot Cake Supreme

This recipe came to me through my magical Google reader. I love this thing. I don’t have to go from blog to blog looking for new posts. The new posts come to me! That is how life should be, right? You want it…it arrives. If only everything in life was like this…or would that be [...]

Chocoflan Cake

My mom sent this recipe to me. I discovered in talking with her today that the reason she sent it to me is because she was too scared to try it out herself. I have become the recipe guinea pig, and I am totally OK with that. There’s always a little bit of uncertainty when trying a [...]

Italian Cream Cake and Happy Birthday Ben!

I love my husband. I love when he has a birthday because I get to shower him with gifts, and a special birthday dinner. I really love that his favorite cake is Italian cream because that is also MY favorite cake! What are the chances? We were meant to be. So, when November 30th rolls [...]

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