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23 Dec

Cute Christmas Cupcakes

Do you like my alliteration?! LOL Dessert should be fun, right?! I love a creative dessert that not only tastes delicious but also has kiddos ooing and aahhing and smiling over the magical fun you’ve created! Like these super cute and easy Santa’s hat cupcakes! Or these beautiful wreath cupcakes… Or these fun Christmas trees! […]

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7 Dec

An Extra Sweet Birthday

Making Gingerbread Houses for our December Baby! Covid is kind of a bummer. In fact, we’ve had to skip a couple birthdays, and Thanksgiving this year and Christmas will be limited too. I am looking forward to this particular season being over. And yet, there are still so many ways to make each day special […]

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27 Nov

Chocolate Caramel Tart

This chocolate caramel tart has a salty addition to it… a pretzel graham cracker crust! And it is sooooo good! It is delicious as a full-size tart, or as mini tarts like the ones I made this Thanksgiving! I love the bite-size tarts. It’s the perfect amount of caramel and chocolate and crust. This post […]

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12 Nov

Extra M**st Chocolate Muffins!

These are literally the best chocolate muffins ever! They are more dense than a cupcake, but still humid and light. They are chocolately, but not overwhelmingly so. Unless, like me you add a ton of mini chocolate chips… and then they are just perfectly chocolate! Make a batch for breakfast this week! They freeze perfectly […]

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11 Nov

Sweet Potato Pumpkin Soup

This Fall soup is perfectly cozy and creamy. It is fast becoming my absolute favorite. The delicate pumpkin and sweet potato flavors remind me of the Fall and I love the bright orange color! Ingredients: Approximately 1/2 cup Coconut Milk 1/4 cup Pecorino Cheese 1 Small Pumpkin (approximately 1 1/2 cups of pumpkin) 1-2 Sweet […]

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4 Nov

Peanut Butter Caramel Corn

Ingredients: 1/3 cup Brown Sugar 2/3 cup White Sugar 5 Tablespoons Butter 1/3 cup Heavy Cream 1/4 cup Peanut butter Approximately 15 chopped Mini Reese’s Peanut butter cups Begin by popping your popcorn. You can use whichever method you prefer: air popped, on the stove top or in the microwave. If you buy microwave popcorn, […]

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29 Oct

Chocolate Pancakes

We all need a little comfort sometimes. Comfort = Chocolate. Right?! All this quarantine business is tricky and a little tiring and some times you just need something extra special to start the day! These chocolate pancakes do the trick perfectly! They are delicious with Nutella, Peanut butter, butter and powdered sugar or fresh fruit […]

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26 Oct

Sweet Potato Biscuits

Ingredients: 2 cups All-purpose Flour 1 tablespoon Baking Powder 1 tablespoon Granulated Sugar 1 teaspoon Salt 6 tablespoons of COLD Butter 3/4 cup Buttermilk 3/4 cup Pureed Sweet Potato Pre-baking Instructions: Before you begin making your biscuits you will need to cook and puree your sweet potato. One large potato is plenty for this recipe. […]

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26 Oct

Monstrous Eats & Treats

We don’t do Halloween at our house. I did growing up… I dressed up as a princess, a rock star, a flapper, a siamese twin and so many other silly things over the years. But here in Italy Halloween kind of took on only the evil aspect of it. It’s pretty dark, and a few […]

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19 Oct

Apple Blondies

Ingredients: Cookies 1/2 cup Butter 2 Apples 2 Eggs 3/4 cup Brown sugar 1 tsp Vanilla paste 1 cup Flour 1/2 tsp Baking soda 1/8 tsp Baking powder 1/2 tsp Salt Strudel Topping 1/2 cup Brown Sugar 1 cup Flour 4 tablespoons Butter Instructions Measure your wet ingredients: brown sugar, butter (room temperature), eggs and […]

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