This Orange Juice Cake is bursting with citrus flavor in every bite! This quick and easy recipe can be prepared in 20 minutes. Then it’s baked for an hour in the oven, filling your home with a warm citrus aroma. Every winter when the weather turns frigid, I start craving citrus. You would think these…
Coffee Cake
Cinnamon Pear Coffee Cake Recipe
A perfect holiday breakfast is made complete with this Cinnamon Pear Coffee Cake recipe featuring Fleischmann’s® Yeast. Morning is my favorite time of the day. I absolutely love waking up and having some time to ease into my day with a cup of coffee, some writing or reading time, and the stillness of the house. I especially…
College Talk {Recipe: The Best Coffee Cake with Blackberry Glaze}
Three out of the four of my kids have started school as of today. My oldest starts tomorrow, which means he and I got to spend part of the morning together without any of his siblings around. That kind of one on one time rarely happens around here, so it’s a pretty special thing. Of course,…
Gingerbread Coffee Cake with Ginger Cream
This giveaway is now closed! Thanks for participating! Holiday baking done? Check. Wait, no check? You too? What are we doing, with less than a week until Christmas and the baking frenzy hasn’t even begun? Yeah, I don’t really know either, but I just haven’t felt that Christmas spirit push to spend all day in…
Happiness is a Bowl Full of Cherries {Recipe: Cherry Cream Coffee Cake}
I am happy. It feels so good to say that. I am happy and that makes me happy. After a year of ups and downs, worrying, frets and stress it feels so good to be able to say that I really am happy. Our summer, so far, has been one of intentional happiness. I purposely…
Just Don’t Think About It
I’m going to start this post off with a self-slap to my face, a shake, and a loud, “Kristen…get a hold of yourself!!!”. I need to pull it together, and I need to do so quickly. I have been an emotional wreck this week thinking about my middle daughter, Kelly, starting Kindergarten. I know this…
Blueberry Coffee Cake
I am always warning my kids not to spill things… “Don’t spill that… chocolate stains”. So, many times I’ll get the question asked of me by my kiddos, “Mommy, does this stain?”. I’m not sure if they are asking because they want permission to spill something, or if they are going to gauge my response…
Pull-Apart Caramel Coffee Cake
One of the most popular recipes on my site is a recipe I posted “way back when”. Back when I was a newbie blogger, I posted a recipe for Oooey Gooey Monkey Bread. In that post, I encouraged people to get messy with their kids. Allow them to use their hands to eat and…
Cinnamon Flop Recipe
I have to give a HUGE thank you to everyone who has signed up for the adopt a food blogger event. The deadline to participate is today, but if any veteran bloggers out there want to jump in past the deadline, please feel free! We are a little heavy on the newbie side…












