Hachiya Persimmon Bundt Cake

Jenn, who blogs over at Cultivating Me, texted me last weekend to see if I had any ideas for using Hachiya persimmons.  I’d actually never had a persimmon before.  Like never, ever.  I knew there was more than one kind of persimmon, the two most common are hachiya and fuyu. But as luck would have […]

Salted Caramel Buttercream Frosted Mocha Brownies

I’ve been dying to make brownies for a while now.  I hate using a box mix and there’s really no excuse not to make brownies from scratch.  While they aren’t hard to make from scratch, doing so requires a few more steps.  You’ve got to melt the chocolate and mix things in stages while making […]

Carrots With a Twist #CoolWhipFrosting

We LOVE Carrot Cake!  #CoolWhipFrosting Alison:  If you’ve visited our blog before, you know that we never need a reason to have a special treat.  We pretty much have them all the time.  We’re probably having more treats than you think because we don’t share all of them here. Susie: I know not of which […]

Saveur Smith Island Cake

This is the newest fancy dessert we’ve tried at my house.  Saveur’s Smith Island Cake is definitely worth the work to make.  I was a little worried that the frosting wouldn’t set up because it was incredibly liquid when I was spreading it on the cake.  But it did after it had been in the […]

Who loves apple pie?

So everyone at my house loves apple pie.  That includes the pets.  Or at least they think they do. So this is the huge apple pie that we normally make.  It’s from The America’s Test Kitchen Family Baking Book.  It makes a great pie which is well worth the extra step of cooking the apples […]

Cake Pops

Today is going to be a busy day.  We have the new Cake Pops cookbook by Bakerella and we’re going to try to make some.  That is after we get some lollipop sticks.  I have a feeling that Rosie is going to want to be quite helpful while we’re making these.  She really likes to […]