Everyday Food for Busy People
This is a dangerous dessert for me to make. I love them! They are so buttery tasting that I have trouble stopping with one. Or two. Or more.
This is an adaptation of Pioneer Woman’s Apricot Oat Bars. However, I have a recipe exactly like hers that I printed off the internet sometime in the 90s. So I’m not sure where the recipe originated. I must thank whoever created it. These bars are fabulous and the cherry version is delicious too. [Read more...]
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One of my Grandma’s signature desserts was Banana Cake with Coffee Icing. She made it from scratch as a layer cake. I’ve made her recipe before and it uses every bowl in the house. No kidding. It requires whipping egg whites and stirring dry ingredients and mashing bananas and boiling water and beating egg yolks… A delicious, time-consuming mess!
I’ve simplified things a lot with this recipe. It’s still made from scratch. I use a sheet cake pan instead of doing a layer cake. But I kept the Coffee Icing recipe the same. It’s really mocha, but we didn’t use the word “mocha” back then. Mocha is a new-fangled word.
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These may be the best carrots I’ve ever eaten. They were perfectly cooked in the slow cooker and the butter and honey glaze made them taste scrumptious.
I love the idea of these as a Thanksgiving side dish. They can be cleaned and cut the day before. Then it’s just a matter of popping them in the slow cooker and turning it on.
I made 1 pound of carrots and it fed 5-6 people. It would be easy to double or even triple the amount.
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We’re going back to basics this week with butter!
Here are a few of my favorite recipes that use butter (and there were many to choose from!): [Read more...]
This cake is all about the frosting. Oh my goodness! I don’t know why I never thought to do this before.
The coffee flavored butter cream is delicious eaten from a spoon or licked from the bowl. But save some for the cake, because it’s a perfect pairing with chocolate cake.
I don’t have any ingredient pictures to share with you this time. I may have been so excited about this recipe idea, that I forgot to snap a photo. [Read more...]
So, I was browsing around on Pinterest the other day and found this delicious twist on the original chocolate/peanut butter Chex snack. The actual recipe on the Chex site is for Lemon Chex Buddies.
I decided to add some lime juice. And because I’m much too lazy to zest an actual lemon, I needed to use dried zest and all I had was orange. But the combo of orange, lemon and lime is fantastic. Sweet, sunny and slightly addictive.
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What to do with the lemon cake mix hanging out in my pantry? Cookies, of course!
This was an experiment. I wasn’t at all sure how the crushed pineapple would work in a cookie made from cake mix. I was afraid it would be too much liquid. But they turned out wonderfully. Soft and lemony with a sunny flavor.
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The outside looks like a plain vanilla muffin. But inside there’s a creamy pocket of Nutella hiding.
Can it get any better?
I don’t think so.
Loy says dessert-like muffins should be called “Muffcakes”. I agree completely.
Here’s how you make this magic – and please do go straight to your kitchen to make these. You will love yourself for it! [Read more...]
The other day, I posted a list of 28 Muffins You’ll Want to Try and Terri left this comment:
Hi,
I was looking at your muffin recipes. They look yummy! I’m also looking for a coconut muffin maybe with mini choc chips added. Have you ever heard of something like that? I thought maybe replacing the liquid with coconut milk then add either maybe a streusel with toasted coconut and a drizzle of chocolate. What do you think? Do you have any suggestions? I have tried a couple of your recipes and passed on your site to some friends.
Thanks,
Terri
Oh, what a good idea! I went into the kitchen and got creative right away. These are the result. The muffin is infused with coconut flavor and studded with mini chocolate chips. The streusel topping has cocoa and coconut. Oh yeah!
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Isn’t that the prettiest pink cake?
I’m not known for beautiful cakes. They usually turn out lopsided with crumbs in the frosting. So I’m really happy with how this turned out.
The idea is not my own. I saw the Cherry Vanilla Cake on Jam Hands and couldn’t resist trying it. I altered Ali’s recipe in several ways. She used the seeds of a vanilla bean, which sounds scrumptious, but I didn’t have any. I swapped water for milk and butter for oil.
And I decided to frost it with whipped topping. My original plan was to use Cool Whip, but then I remembered a recipe shared a few weeks ago on Ingredient Spotlight for homemade whipped topping. That’s what I decided to try and I’ll share the recipe on on Thursday. [Read more...]
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