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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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Mini Pumpkin Pies

September 25, 2013
Mini Pumpkin Pies

How freaking cute!  These mini pumpkin pies will bring big smiles to your guests.  Planning on having a fall appetizer, or a buffet of mini desserts?  Add these mini pumpkin pies to your list. The best part is these are so easy to make.  You can use any pumpkin pie recipe and any crust you want.  All you’re doing is making a mini pumpkin pie.  I used a Pillsbury crust…

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Pumpkin Bread Truffles

September 24, 2013
Pumpkin Bread Truffles

Pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin!  What a dessert.  If you love pumpkin as much as we do, then you’ll love these pumpkin bread truffles.  Literally melting in my mouth – literally, I’m eating one right now.  We’ve taken pieces of pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, infused some chocolate and voila!  Pumpkin Bread Truffles. The basic foundation is pumpkin bread.  So feel free to follow our recipe below, or use your own.  The middle…

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Pumpkin Bread

September 23, 2013
Pumpkin Bread

What’s fall without pumpkin bread?  Seriously – if you don’t like pumpkin, sorry, but what is wrong with you?  If you’re not from New England, and you don’t like pumpkin, then you get a free pass.  I could literally eat pumpkin bread every day of the year, but I somehow hold off until the fall.  When I was in college, I looked forward from that finals week care package, filled…

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Cookies and Cream Cupcakes

September 13, 2013
Cookies and Cream Cupcakes

Happy birthday to Fatima!  Last year, I made Fatima a cookies and cream cake.  She loves anything cookies and cream – especially those Hershey’s cookies and cream bars.  I’m not a fan, but that’s one of the only sweets she’ll eat.  This year, to pair with my peanut butter cup cupcakes, I made her some cookies and cream cupcakes. I used a butter golden cake mix, a can of vanilla…

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Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes

September 10, 2013
Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes

Happy birthday to meeeeee!  Ughgh another year older.  Last year, Fatima made me a delicious Peanut Butter Cup Cake.  Peanut butter cups are one of my favorite things.  This year I wanted to make something similar.  These delicious peanut butter cup cupcakes are simple and easy to make. Take your favorite cupcake flavor (I went with chocolate), a plain ol’vanilla frosting can, and add in your favorite treats.  I loaded…

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Peanut Butter Cup Smores

August 10, 2013
Peanut Butter Cup Smores

A summer favorite, s’mores are the campfire dessert to enjoy around a fire on a cool summer night .  What makes these little beauties even better?  Substitute that little piece of chocolate with a peanut butter cup.  De-lish!  These peanut butter cup smores are my new favorite type of s’more.  Are you going to celebrate national s’mores day?  Show us your s’mores!…

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Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

July 31, 2013
chewy chocolate chip cookies

Remember that time we made chocolate chip cookies using a Pinterest tip telling us adding cornstarch would make them fluffy?  Yes, it was an epic fail. However, on our second time around visiting the cornstarch theory, we’ve hit the jackpot.  These are some delicious and chewy chocolate chip cookies I have ever had.  These will ruin you; you’ll never want to make them any other way ever again.  Think Mrs.…

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Happy National Ice Cream Day

July 21, 2013

One of my favorite ice cream places is in Center Harbor, NH.  Dewey’s Ice Cream Parlor is right up the rock from the public docks and offers exceptional homemade ice cream. Another one of my favorite places is Bailey’s Bubble in Wolfeboro, NH.  I eat their ice cream way too fast, they have amahhhzing ice cream – probably one of the best on Lake Winnipesaukee. A personal favorite of mine…

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Corn on the Cob Cupcakes

June 20, 2013
Corn on the Cob Cupcakes

Here’s a fun way to decorate your cupcakes for your summer picnics.  Make Corn on the Cob Cupcakes!  Haha – no corn involved – just jelly beans.  Out of a small bag of mixed jelly beans, there were only enough yellow beans to make one of these cupcakes, so I’m not sure where you can find only yellow jelly beans, but good luck!!  We found the corn skewers at Michael’s for…

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Strawberry Margarita Cupcakes

June 16, 2013
strawberry margarita cupcakes

An easy take on those delicious MarquisRita cupcakes we featured earlier this week.  Add some booze and fruit to your cupcakes for some delicious and surprisingly refreshing strawberry margarita cupcakes.  We used the same recipe as the MarquisRita cupcakes, and all we added were some chopped strawberries to the batter. As we experimented with the tequila in the batter, we noticed it didn’t really mix into the batter, so as…

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Red Velvet Cheesecake

June 14, 2013
Red Velvet Cheesecake

We were so obsessed with Magnolia’s Red Velvet Cheesecake that we wanted to make our own.  Last week we featured a to-die-for Cookie Monster Cheesecake.  We adapted it from this very simple cheesecake recipe.  We made this delicious Red Velvet Cheesecake before making the Cookie Monster one, and learned from our mistakes.  We never used a water bath when we made the red velvet cheesecake, it cracked and dried a…

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MarquisRita aka Margarita Cupcakes

June 12, 2013
marquisrita aka margarita cupcakes

I could have a margarita (in my case a MarquisRita) any day of the week.  So yummy.  I took that love for MarquisRitas and turned it into a cupcake; MarquisRita aka Margarita Cupcakes! They came out better than expected.  The recipe is a simple “1-2-3-4” basic cupcake/cake mix with an addition of tequila and lime.  The batter makes a lot of cupcakes, I got about 3 dozen cupcakes. I’d probably cut…

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Old Fashioned Chocolate Glazed Donuts

March 27, 2013
Baked Donuts

Chocoholic?  Yes.  Any chance to make something chocolatey and I’m the first one in line.  The chocolate donuts were so good!  We were going for the chocolate glazed donuts you get from the Dunkin Donuts – the kind that melt in your mouth.  I believe we nailed it. This past fall, we made some yummy pumpkin donuts.  We sort of cut through that recipe and opted in for cake mix –…

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Old Fashioned Red Velvet Donuts

March 26, 2013
Old Fashioned Red Velvet Donuts

Red Velvet?  Donuts?  Um, yum!  These were absolutely delicious.  The kind of donut you wait for at brunch after going to church in the morning.  Ugghghg…I wish we made more… This past fall, we made some yummy pumpkin donuts.  We sort of cut through that recipe and opted in for cake mix instead – it made it so much easier.  Experimenting with cake mix is always fun.  It’s easy and…

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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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