It's the perfect time of the year to try out new cookie recipes, I recently made and shared the recipe for brown sugar spice cookies. More recently I made vanilla cookies, I made this easy vanilla cookie recipe last year too, I just forgot to share them! These cookies are really simple to make and they taste great, these taste like sugar cookies with a stronger vanilla flavor ...
Desserts
Blueberry Biscuits
The weather is finally getting so nice...ok as I type this it's storming so bad that the lights are flickering and I'm crossing my fingers that we don't lose power, but you know...still better than being freezing cold, right? At this point I'll take any sign of Spring we can get. We've had so much fun this past week spending most of our time playing outside, so much in fact ...
Simple Strawberry Pie
In my mind every season is pie season. Maybe it's because I can whip up a pie crust in a couple minutes, seriously have you checked out my 4 ingredient flaky pie crust recipe yet? It means pies are easily my go-to recipe. One of my favorite pies to make is a simple strawberry pie. It's easy to make, delicious, and beautiful, that's a win win win (whoa three wins!) in my book. ...
Strawberry Banana Smoothies
A couple weeks ago we had gorgeous weather, it was 40 degrees. In Wisconsin that’s basically t-shirt weather. Who am I kidding? I saw a guy wearing a sleeveless shirt yesterday when the temperature was less than 20 degrees, we're all kind of numb to the cold at this point of the year. So of course, we had to have frozen strawberry banana smoothies for lunch, since it was so ...
Carrot Cake Sandwich Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
'Tis the season where it's completely acceptable to sneak carrots in your families desserts, right? We all need some bunny food as we prepare for visits from the Easter bunny. This treat is a refreshing dessert to eat in between stealing Easter candy from your children's Easter basket stash. (I might be crossing my fingers that Aliceana gets a few chocolate bunnies to share ...
Banana Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting
Today I'm sharing one of my all-time favorite family recipes. Banana Bars with cream cheese frosting. I can't count how many times I've eaten this at family gatherings or at my Aunt's house when I would spend the night. My weekly sleepovers at my Aunt's house are most likely the reason why I love to bake. She's always been amazing at baking cookies, but now she's into baking ...
Easy Frosted Cupcakes with Kool-Aid
The first time I made cupcakes with Cherry flavored Kool-Aid frosting I was in college and we had all the guys over to play video games all night long. Playing video games for that long takes stamina so I had to make some delightfully sweet cupcakes. Even if our kitchen was the size of a shoebox and I had to use the dining room table (a small bistro patio set) for most of the ...
Quick and easy triple chocolate parfaits
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #TreatYourselfToSummer #CollectiveBias Phew! We had a long weekend, my cousin had basketball tournaments all weekend long and we were there to cheer her on and endured a whole lot of icky spring weather to get to the stands. It was worth it she won the championship ...
Girl Boss Book Par-Tea! (fun brunch ideas)
We hosted a ridiculously fun Girl Boss book party...I'm sorry, did I say party? I clearly meant par-tea, because bad puns are better when used in excess. Our Girl Boss Book par-tea was held to celebrate some pretty amazing books penned by girl bosses that have dominated in their field. Originally I wanted to work with a hot pink color palette, but weirdly enough, hot pink tea ...
Double Chocolate Strawberry Muffins
AJ is on the road for 4 days out of the week, so when he finally gets home I love to surprise him with new treats. This last week I had fresh strawberries in the house, so I decided to make muffins. Instead of making my standard strawberry muffin recipe I decided to take it up a notch and make double chocolate strawberry muffins. It was perfect, because AJ is completely ...
Movie night nostalgia and yogurt parfaits
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #anepicmovienight #spiderverse #CollectiveBias Mondays are well...Mondays, which is why our family likes to break up the mundane by settling down with a movie night. This week our movie of choice is Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Aliceana has been begging to watch ...