Candies

I’m a sucker for chocolate, especially around the holidays. Nothing makes me happier than seeing homemade chocolates on a holiday treat tray, no matter where I go. One of the easiest but tastiest holiday treats is definitely bark. Traditional almond bark, peppermint bark, mint chocolate bark, if it is bark, …

If you’ve spent a lot of time around the Christmas dessert table, like I have, you may have noticed these pretty church windows. I’ve seen them at many  a holiday gathering from work to family functions, but never realized exactly what was in them or how they were made. Now …

One ingredient that I love to work with when making sweet treats is marshmallows. Without marshmallows, we wouldn’t have some of our favorites like Rice Krispie bars, rocky road anything, or classic s’mores. Can you even imagine? If you love marshmallows as much as I do, here are 25 marshmallow …

I love no-bake recipes which only require a few ingredients. Sometimes I just don’t have the time to spend in the kitchen for anything more complicated. These Peanut Butter Cookie Balls made by Kari Stroschein are surprisingly easy and can be made with only three ingredients!  According to Kari, every time she makes …

Mini Eggs. Need I say more? Sometimes you just need to create a dessert to highlight something special.  Like how I made the Baked Kahlua Pineapple Flutter– it was really all about the Kahlua.  Or the Bittersweet Chocolate Oatmeal Bars– we all know the oatmeal was used merely to envelop …

Oh, yes- you’re going to love me for this recipe. You’re welcome, you’re welcome, you’re welcome. Have you ever walked through O’Hare airport in Chicago and been swept off your feet by the smell of roasting nuts?  And not just any kind of roasting nut, but nuts coated in a …

Making fudge is highly annoying but immensely rewarding.  (Kind of like I imagine what it would be like to have kids.) Who doesn’t like fudge?  (Crickets should be chirping, highlighting the silence associated with no one speaking up about not liking fudge.) And since we all like fudge, why not make it …

This cake doesn’t even need an introduction, because: a) it’s entirely obvious it’s the most colossally incredible cake you will ever come across, and b) by making you read silly things like words I am wasting the precious time you could be using to START BAKING THIS MASTERPIECE.  (Yes, I …

Wow. Gooey and chewy and sweet on the inside.  Crunchy dark chocolate coating on the outside.  (I know you’re sold.  You could stop reading now and just skip to the recipe, based on that succinctly wooing description, I know.) Another wow: this is the easiest recipe you’ll make since the …

I’m so excited by these cupcakes.  And I think you are, too, judging by how your pulse quickened a bit after reading the title of this post.  Look at the picture.  See that gooey Rolo tucked into the best chocolate cake batter ever?  See it in all its tempting glory?  …