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Dad makes the best cookies, cakes, and pretty much every dessert on this blog.

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Old Fashioned Glaze for Donuts

March 25, 2013
Old Fashioned Glaze

We went nuts for donuts this past weekend.  We baked up a storm of red velvet and chocolate donuts. Some were left plain, but the others were dipped into glaze.  I don’t really know what came over us, but we were really excited to make these. Bake?  Yes, these donuts were baked not fried.  Last time we baked up some delicious donuts was last fall when we made pumpkin donuts.…

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Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Truffles

March 13, 2013
chocolate chip cookie dough truffles

Yummy, yummy, yummy, I’ve got edible cookie dough in my tummy.  You know you’re in heaven when you can eat eggless cookie dough.  This Chocolate Cookie Dough Truffle recipe was inspired from a red velvet truffle recipe.  Our weaknesses consist only of a few things: chocolate, cookie dough, and a good dessert that can combine the two. So what happens when you combine everything together?…

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Lucky Charms Cupcakes

March 12, 2013

St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner!  Having a bowl of Lucky Charms in the morning, brought me back to childhood.  I forget how good they can be.  Is it just me, or have the grain pieces grown on me?  I don’t pick them out anymore.  Who doesn’t love a good bowl of Lucky Charms once in a while?  How about on your cupcakes?  Here’s a quick an easy…

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Cheesecake Bites

February 13, 2013

We love cheesecake.  Why not take this delicious dessert and make it bite-size?  Very easy to make.  Be sure to give yourself some time to bake and then let sit in the fridge.  We sort of modified our other recipe to make these.  You’ll need a mini muffin tin if you want to make these itty bitty… [recipe] Cheesecake Bites Cheesecake: Two 8oz packages of cream cheese (not fat free or…

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Red Velvet Truffles

February 12, 2013
Red Velvet Truffles

With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, the world is frantically searching for that perfect chocolate dessert. These Red Velvet Truffles are to die for! I mean you can’t go wrong when you combine chocolate, Oreos, and Red Velvet cake. When you’re living in NYC, your kitchen—wait, what kitchen? This recipe is quick to make, easy clean-up, and absolutely delicious. We made these Red Velvet Truffles two times. The first, was for…

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Pecan Pie

January 14, 2013
Pecan Pie

I’ve never made – let alone tasted – pecan pie.  The first time I tasted pecan pie was last week.  It was delicious!  I was hooked. Side note – this was supposed to be for a bake off at work and I failed to remember the date. Being that it was my first time making this dish, I went a step further and created my own.  Nuts, you say?  Maybe. …

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Cake Cookies

December 15, 2012
Cookies

They’re not cakes.  They’re not cookies.  They’re Cake Cookies!  This recipe would fool Buddy Valastro and Cookie Monster, as it did to myself.  I never knew how popular cake cookies were until I came home to find Fatima and Eileen making these delicious sweets. The best part about this, is you only need 3 things (Cake Mix, Eggs, and Oil. Fatima said the recipe for Cake Cookies was on the box…

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Truffles

December 14, 2012

I found the recipe for these Chocolate Peanut Butter Truffles at Six Sisters Stuff (Chubby Hubby Truffles) and I knew I had to try it.  No recipe modifications were made here.  Chocolate Peanut Butter – Need I say more? I just took a bite so I could take a picture (featured image) and I literally died and went to heaven.  These are really sweet, and soooooo good.  The chocolate peanut butter combination won…

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Toffee Shortbread Cookies

December 6, 2012

Sweets!  Much like the salted caramel donuts, these delicious toffee shortbread cookies offer a sweet and salty flavor to any party setting.  I thought these were very easy to make.  Believe it or not, the caramel topping was harder to make than the shortbread.  A coworker gave me the recipe for these cookies; after reading it, I knew I had to make these Toffee Shortbread Cookies! Most of this time…

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Cinnamon Roll Waffles

December 1, 2012

Want to make a sweet and easy treat this morning?  Serve a tasty dessert for breakfast this holiday season using something you might have in your fridge already!  Cinnamon Rolls! Ingredients: Can of cinnamon rolls (Pillsbury or your favorite kind) – I chose to use the mini ones so I could get more out of the can. Directions: Turn on the waffle maker and wait for it to heat up. Pop…

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Pumpkin Donuts

November 20, 2012

MINI PUMPKIN DONUTS!  Who doesn’t love donuts, let alone pumpkin ones?!  This is the perfect pumpkin treat to serve your guests for brunch or for dessert after a delicious dinner.  These can be made with mini donut pans (as you will see shortly) or with the regular sized donut pans.  These mini pumpkin donuts made over 3 dozen easily.  The bigger donut pans might make over 1 dozen.  So grab…

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Pumpkin Cream Cheese Truffles

September 27, 2012

Tuesday night, I may have screwed up a really good recipe for these Pumpkin Cream Cheese Truffles, and may might have become very angry with the dessert gods – I needed to cool off and try it again.  I redeemed myself last night by hashing out the recipe once more by switching some things up, and yes, reading the directions a bit more carefully.  NOTE: my cross outs below are…

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Pumpkin Poppers

September 25, 2012

Day 2!  And you guessed it…MORE PUMPKIN!  We found this recipe while stumbling along Pinterest and knew that we had to try them.  Just want to give you a heads up, this recipe will take some time to make, so be sure to plan ahead! And the best way to use a mini muffin tin, besides mini cinnamon rolls?  Pumpkin donut holes! aka: Pumpkin Poppers. [recipe] Pumpkin Poppers Poppers: 1…

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Pumpkin Whoopie Pies

September 24, 2012
Pumpkin Whoopie Pies

One of our favorite things to add to a dessert, besides peanut butter, is pumpkin.  It does not even have to be fall for me to eat a good pumpkin pie. A classic American treat, the Whoopie Pie, otherwise known as a “black-and-white,” got its start as being a delicious treat in lunch pails.  Wives of farmers would bake these treats once in a while for their husbands and pack…

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Lofthouse Cookies

August 10, 2012

Lofthouse cookie.  You probably have not heard of them, but you definitely have had them before.  I like to call them the Walmart or Stop and Shop cookies.  The sugar cookies with the frosting in the packages of 12.  Yeah, those cookies.  I was talking about these at work the other day, and it inspired me to make them.  So that’s what I did.  Let me just say that they…

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