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Whether you’re looking for your next favorite dessert for your next dinner party, house warming, or Friday night, you’ll be able to find something right here. This category features all of our dessert recipes, rolled up into one, easy location. We cover everything from cookies to cake, cupcakes to pie, and chocolate to pumpkin. Our dessert recipes are budget, family, and living-on-your-own friendly, and easy to make! We’ve made every recipe featured here and our posts will let you know how we liked the dish. Let’s be honest, we’ve loved pretty much everything. Leave a comment if you have one. If you’re looking for something more specific use our search bar or check out one of our niche categories. Thanks for stopping by, hope to have you back soon!

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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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The Ultimate Peanut Butter Cup

July 19, 2012

Are you a sweet tooth looking for that ultimate summer treat?  Try this delicious Peanut Butter Cup recipe. When to make and consume these: 1. in the summer, 2. when your sweet tooth is calling, 3. in November during Peanut Butter Lovers Month haha. I would like to give credit to a few websites and their reviewers with whom I combined some of the recipes, reviews, and comments in order…

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Chocolate Chip Cookies

July 14, 2012
Chocolate Chip Cookies

What’s more American than Chocolate Chip Cookies? The chocolate chip cookie was a delicious accident.  It was discovered in 1930 by Ruth Graves Wakefield, in Whitman, Massachusetts.  Owner of the Toll House Inn, a popular restaurant that always supplied a good home cooked meal.  Ruth’s cookbook, published in 1936, featured a recipe called “Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookie,” and soon became a popular treat across the country. Using bits of…

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Simple Chocolate Recipe of the Week

July 6, 2011

Forget the cup, cut out the middle man and have your own Reese’s Peanut Butter and chocolate. [recipe] Reese’s and Chocolate 1 Hershey’s Bar 1 small container of Reese’s Creamy Peanut Butter Open the container of peanut butter by unscrewing the top of the jar and peeling back the paper seal underneath. Slowly peel open the wrapper of the chocolate bar and refer to the label for instructions. Dip the…

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