OMG…YUM! Chocolate + coffee…what more could a geeky girl ask for? With it’s rich chocolate and strong espresso flavors, this cake is a magical cure for a bad day, a late night craving or anything else that is getting you down. Eat a decadent slice for breakfast and get your caffeine and your sugar rush…
DIY Chalkboard Painted Garden Labels
Toss those manufacturers labels, empty seed packets, plastic spoons or whatever else you are using to label your rows of veggies and spruce up your space with these cute chalkboard painted garden labels. Get that popular reclaimed/handcrafted look for a fraction of the cost of purchasing kitschy garden labels at a home decor store. These…
Fun with Chalkboard Paint
I have been obsessed with chalkboard paint lately. It’s such an inexpensive and fun way to enhance a space or project and even make it more useful. I can make things cute AND useful!? Win-win! I’ve painted all kinds of things around my house. I’ve added chalkboard labels to plastic storage bins for organizing my…
Spiced Carrot Bundt Cake with Cream Cheese Glaze
Yum, yum, yum. This carrot cake is moist and hearty with carrots and bursting with spices. I love carrot cake but often avoid it because it is commonly made chock full of nuts and raisins which I don’t care for as they make the cake “chunky”. But you can add a cup of raisins and/or…
Chalkboard Painted Cabinets
This absolutely GENIUS idea came about as I was planning an Old Timey themed party for The Boy’s BIG 30th birthday. I wanted a gentleman’s club meets speakeasy type of feel and had already collected my top hats and mustache costume props and now I needed to decorate the house. I thought it would be…
Banana Coconut Cream Pie
This recipe for cream pie is one of the quickest and easiest ways to make a delicious, silky pie with little more than a mixing bowl and a whisk! This was a go to recipe from my childhood and it still holds up today![jumptorecipe] Make your own pie crust with this recipe: Quick and Easy…
What the Jelly? The Difference between Jam, Jelly and Preserves
Your recipe (or your hungry belly) is calling for peanut butter’s BFF…jelly. So you find yourself in the grocery store staring at a floor to ceiling isle of fruit in a jar that stretches on for days. The jelly selection has grown considerably since the good old days of “grape” and “strawberry” and now it…
Peanut Butter + Jelly Cupcakes
These peanut butter & jelly cupcakes are a huge hit with adults and kids alike and the best part is that you don’t have to cut off the crusts! 😀 Peanut butter and jelly sammiches may be one of the greatest foods on earth. Even as an adult I still crave a pb+j quite often. (I…
Guinness Stout Chocolate Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
The Irish love their Guinness and who can blame them, it’s delicious. Guinness has a strong flavor and thick, creamy texture that is just perfect for baking! I’ve been wanting to try cooking something up with this hearty brew and with St. Paddy’s Day just around the corner I thought I would try one of…
Game Day Crockpot Spicy Chili Queso Dip
Just because I don’t care so much about the “Big Game” doesn’t mean that I can’t enjoy the best parts of football…the tasty tailgate foods and brews! One of my favorite dishes is this muy sabroso Queso Dip. Every year come Super Bowl I start craving this dish. It’s gooey, spicy, chunky and cheesy. With only…
Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
It tastes like hot chocolate mix smells! That is what a friend of mine said about this frosting, and she couldn’t have described it more perfectly. Yum! This classic chocolate buttercream frosting is perfect for frosting cakes, cupcakes, brownies and would make a great frosting for cookie sandwiches! It is one of my go to recipes!…
Pumpkin Spice Bundt Cake with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Today I gift to you my award winning Pumpkin Spice Bundt Cake recipe. Okay, so maybe the award was just winning my office holiday dessert contest 3 years in a row, but still, it is one delicious bundt and one of my favorite desserts ever! Something to be thankful for indeed! 😉…
Creepy Crawlies Cupcakes
Just as fall is my favorite season, Halloween just might be my favorite holiday. I can’t get enough of the fall flavors, creepy crawlies, spooky decor, horror movies, funky costumes, caramel apples, jack-o-lanterns, and gooey goodies. While my taste buds have since graduated from the over-sugary flavors of most trick-or-treat candy, there is no shortage…
Peanut Butter Frosting
Peanut butter lovers get ready to drool your face off. This is one of my all time favorite frostings. It is sooo yummy and hard to not eat it right out of the mixing bowl with a spoon! =9 Try it on these PB+J Cupcakes (as pictured above)! Peanut Butter Frosting Save Print Author:…
Maple Bacon Breakfast Cupcakes
Maple Bacon Cupcakes…your mouth is watering already isn’t it? These yummy cupcakes are just like eating a pancake with maple syrup and bacon! They turned out more savory than sweet and were denser like a muffin or a biscuit. They are totally breakfast cupcakes and you won’t even feel bad about having dessert first. Bacon…
Old-Timey Buttermilk Pancakes
Sometimes there is nothing better than a simple pancake. These pancakes fit the bill! They are delicious and buttery, not too fluffy or too thick, just perfect. I will never buy a boxed pancake mix again and I promise you won’t either if you give them a try. They are too easy not to! These…
Lovely Lemon Cupcakes with Lemon Buttercream Frosting
These refreshingly tart lemon cupcakes are awesome with an icy glass of fresh squeezed lemonade for a cool way to chase away the summer heat. ?☀️ Here in Phoenix we really know a thing or two about the heat. “Dog days of summer” doesn’t even begin to cut it when the temps start creeping towards 120…
Homemade Cream Cheese Frosting
This frosting is a family favorite from my mom’s kitchen! Heck, it is probably my favorite frosting EVER! It is delicious swirled on cupcakes, blossoming from bundt cakes or on covered in sprinkles on sugar cookies (in fact, it the ONLY frosting I put on my most awesome ever sour cream sugar cookies)! 5.0 from…
