Tag: fun food

  • A Virtual Cookie Exchange

    Getting ready to bake for Christmas and need some tried and true, really yummy cookie recipes? Or do you have a recipe to share? Below you’ll find a sampling of cookies my friends and I have baked through the years for Karen’s Annual Cookie Competition Exchange. If you have any cookie recipes to share, please post on…

  • Get ready for a virtual cookie exchange

    Fire up those ovens (or at least your keyboards)! Today I attended a ninth annual cookie exchange (I’ve only missed one through the years) and it got me thinking… we need to have a virtual cookie exchange! I bet you have at least one, if not more, tired-and-true cookie recipe you would be willing to…

  • Reunited and it tastes so good…

    Many years ago, when I was a sweet little undergrad at the University of Florida, (I can’t help but to fit that UF thing in a lot right now. Go Gators! Anyhow, back to the story…) I loved to bake a secret peanut butter and chocolate cookie. These cookies ROCKED. A little crispy yet still a tad chewy chocolate on…

  • Wicked sweet Halloween cake

    This afternoon I prepared this spooktacular cake using my castle Bundt pan for our street’s pumpkin carving soiree: Again, not along the lines of my healthy eating pledge, but definitely fun for the kids! I cannot wait to show them! I had to perform a bit of surgery, but I don’t think anyone will notice:…

  • Beary Cute Brownie Bites

    For my son’s first Cub Scout camp out, all the families were asked to bring a dessert to share. (Of course, I was wondering what happened to s’mores, but then I decided that maybe that was a Girl Scout thing.) Anyhow, I remembered some cute bear brownie treats I had made for the kids in…