Who needs an excuse to make something cool and refreshing like sorbet? I don’t, but just for kicks and grins I will give you the top five reasons why sorbet was on our dessert menu today: The temperature today, where I live, topped at 92 degrees Fahrenheit… it was H-O-T hot! Hot chocolate just…
Category Archives: Dessert
Blueberries Get Their Day to Shine
First of all, let me get some of the vacation details out of the way. Our vacation was really nice, minus all the bonding time we had in the car. I love my family, but 40 hours in the car reverses the love we developed for each other from the first 20 hours of…
Berries n’ Cream Cake
Written for Just Baking on the Well Fed Network I know you all have been there. You are standing in the checkout lane of a grocery store and a magazine photo catches your eye. Maybe it is one with the current celebrity gossip. Maybe you are more of the House and Garden type and spot…
Chocolate Star Cookies Recipe
My husbands favorite cookies are these Chocolate Star Cookies, baked with love. There used to be a time when I did not see the point of making homemade cookies. Why bother with all the trouble when you can get refrigerated cookie dough? What could be easier than snipping open the package, slicing some dough…
Cravings – Chocolate Wafer Icebox Cake
Crave: to want greatly : to yearn for: to have a strong or inward desire Oh, I know all about cravings. Cravings are getting up in the middle of the night to make scones because you cannot get them out your mind. Cravings are my 13 year old nephew walking one and a half miles…
French Chocolate Cake Recipe with Rum Glaze
What kind of mom am I? I dare to say that I, Kristen…mother of three, am a very selfish mom. My youngest daughter turned one this past Sunday. The weekend before we had a family birthday party for her and my good friend Sara made her a gorgeous individual cake to dig her little…
End the Search Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe
End the Search Chocolate Chip Cookies…stop searching for the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe, because you just found it! Originally posted May 2007. Updated photos February 28, 2021. The recipe remains the same. You know…sometimes life gets in the way. We have had a very busy, hectic, crazy couple of weeks. It has honestly been…
Strawberry Shortcake with Meyer Lemon Cream
I just thought I would warn you all now. By the end of the summer those of you who read my blog will probably be so sick of seeing and hearing about strawberries. The annual strawberry kick I get on every year has made an early appearance and I have a feeling it is…
Frozen Margarita Dessert
Spring is in full force here in the Midwest. I love the thunderstorms that come with the spring weather but I hate the tornados that this part of the country is known for. I have lived in Kansas all but one year of my life and would you believe I can count on only…
South of the Border S’Mores
Written for Kids Cuisine on the Well Fed Network Getting creative at snack time is always a challenge for me. I know that other moms share this struggle as well. It is hard to get out of the cheese and crackers rut. Thank goodness there are resources out there to help us out. One of…
