Today I feel like being random then sharing this awesome recipe with you. So here are my random thoughts from today… When you wear a blazer as part of your outfit but the weather gets colder than blazer weather, do you wear a jacket or coat over your blazer? What’s the right thing to do…
Category Archives: Dessert
A Good Day {Recipe: Hot Apple Cider Funnel Cakes}
You know it’s been a good day when one of the kids walks into the house from school and says “It smells like those doughnuts from the pumpkin patch and apple orchard in here. Why does it smell like those apple doughnuts? Where are the doughnuts?” No, I didn’t make doughnuts today, but I did…
Cookies & Cream Magic Shell on Mini Ice Cream Cones
We had a little party this past weekend… you may have recalled me gushing about it in my most recent Happiness Report. It was such a wonderful night. So… it was a great party. You want to know how I know it was great? I was so absorbed with the people around me that I…
Holding On To Summer {Recipe: Sinful Lemon Cake}
Summer is slipping away. The funny thing is, as much as I love summer, as soon as the kids start back to school I am more than ready for autumn to make its presence known. The crispness in the air, the colorful hues adorning the trees, football and pumpkin…all are my cue that summer is…
2 New Weight Watchers Dessert Recipes
I’ve been working with Weight Watchers on testing some of their newest dessert recipes which utilize some of their pre-packaged Weight Watchers sweet baked goods. Since I’ve been running and losing weight but still have a massive sweet tooth, having desserts that don’t tip the scale in the wrong direction is an important focus of…
The Ice Cream Social {Recipe: Old Fashioned Banana Pudding Ice Cream}
Old Fashioned Banana Pudding Ice Cream is like having your favorite pudding as a cool, frozen treat! First of all today, I’m going to tell you that this is probably the most amazing homemade ice cream I have ever tasted. Ever. In my life. It was so good that I had to have neighbor kids…
Recipe: 4 Ingredient Oreo Ice Cream
Oreo Ice Cream recipe from the Savory Sweet Life Cookbook. I’ve been sitting on this cookbook for a couple of months now. Not because I don’t like it. Quite the contrary. The Savory Sweet Life Cookbook is a gorgeous book, full of wonderful stories accompanied by family-friendly, unique recipes.
Homemade Root Beer Flavored Sno Cone Syrup Recipe
It’s about this time each year that I start to get that uneasy feeling about summer being close to over. We have one month left before my kids go back to school, and I know and don’t like how fast that last month of summer speeds by. We’re doing an ok job getting through our…
Desserts in Jars {Recipe: Tres Leches Cakes}
A wonderful Tres Leches Cake recipe from the Desserts in Jars Cookbook. This giveaway is now closed. Congrats to Lindsey from Growing Kids Ministry for winning! I used to stand by the glass counter, staring longingly into the dessert case, hoping my parents would budge and buy me one of the little “parfait buckets”. Banana…
Indivisible {Recipe: Pink Lemonade Dessert Bars}
I have no red, white and blue masterpiece for you today. No berry topped dessert or patriotic themed beverage has been made. You’ll have to go elsewhere for gorgeous flag cakes, star spangled drinks and patriotic Popsicles. Oh, we’ll be celebrating, don’t worry about that. There will be time for reflection on the true meaning…
