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The New Red Cup

02.08.2012

It isn’t news that I love my Starbucks 2 pump white mochas… But I REALLY loved it this morning when I was handed this: How cute is the new Red Cup?! It says: all my LOVE new LOVE brotherly LOVE sweet LOVE first LOVE motherly LOVE true LOVE LOVE birds LOVE forever LOVE you LOVE [...]

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Baby Shower Dessert & Candy Bar

07.27.2011

I always have loved the idea of a candy bar at weddings, but it simply wasn’t in the cards for my own wedding. Now I’m thinking I may attempt it for a baby shower. Smaller scale seems so much more do-able I’m thinking of a few of these ideas in addition to candy in apothecary jars: [...]

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Scalloped Sweet Potato Stacks

05.02.2011

We tried this delicious recipe on Easter morning and I just had to share. This is a great all around recipe and serves up nicely being that you cook it in muffin pans and it makes them into individual portions (though I dare you to only eat one!). The recipe was found in Southern Living’s [...]

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Baking Bonanza: Zucchini Carrot Muffins & Biscotti

04.17.2011

I have started being a part of our church’s “Hospitality Team” that brings snack to Sunday morning services. The first time I brought snack, my friend Ashleigh came over for quite a few hours to help bake on Saturday, and then on Sunday morning to prep fruit and take some platters to church. Well this [...]

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Cake Balls!

03.23.2011

Have you seen Cake Pops around blogland, or even now in Starbucks?  I first tasted these yummy treats at our dear friends’ engagement party last April and ever since have wanted to make them myself. They look yummy… I thought it may be faster and easier since I don’t have candy making supplies to do [...]

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It Isn’t All Roses

12.26.2010

I want you all to know – I really am not Betty Crocker or Martha Stewart. Shock, I know. I will pause now while you come to terms with that…… Okay, so I had to let you know the real scoop. Sometimes I suck. Sometimes my recipes bomb. Sometimes I sew things shut that I [...]

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Baking 101: 5 Tips for successful holiday baking

12.03.2010

In case you haven’t realized it yet, I love baking. LOVE. I could eat baked goods all day long if I could keep a decent figure. But let me start out admitting that I am in no way a trained baker.  I just have some tricks I’ve learned along the way that I thought I’d pass [...]

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So Thankful

12.01.2010

You may be thinking this post is a little late, but we’ve been busy around here!  Brian’s birthday was last Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, so I was getting prepared for that in addition to having house guests for the Thanksgiving weekend. I was busy baking, wrapping, cleaning, taking people to the airport, and trying [...]

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Pizza, Pizza! Tips and tricks for homemade pizza

11.24.2010

From all these recent food posts, you’d think I actually cooked.  Luckily, my husband is the chef in the family (I bake).  My only specialty and contribution for dinner is pizza – it’s my way of giving him a break and still eating a yummy meal. I also like to think that I’m Italian since I studied [...]

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Best Banana Bread

11.19.2010

I made banana bread last night because I was tired of looking at 2 overripe bananas in the fridge (I’d been saving them for a while for just this occassion).  The best part: my mom was still here to try it and she asked for the recipe because it was “Probably the best banana bread [...]

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Bakery Twine that will wrap around for miles

11.17.2010

There are trumpets in my head, choirs singing praises for this 500 mile spool of bakery twine that just arrived! Okay, so really it’s only 3400 yards, but still that is plenty.  I’m going to have to start selling it I have so much. I even bought the brown professional bakery boxes for Christmas treats! [...]

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Good things: family visit and baked goods

11.15.2010

I won’t be with my family this Thanksgiving, so my mom, brother and brother’s girlfriend came to visit this weekend for a little QT. Though the time went quickly, it was a nice low-key visit. And, since my mom stays one week when she comes, I usually have the benefit of what seems like a [...]

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Sweet Potato Cupcakes

11.07.2010

We had a potluck today for church and I brought my go-to selection that always gets rave reviews. They are a little easier every time I make them, but being that we didn’t have any sugar due to an ant invasion, and were out of other ingredients, Brian had to run to the store for me.  Normally [...]

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What is it about the Red Cup?

11.03.2010

Each year this is what makes the holiday season really begin for me… And in it - a 2 pump nonfat white mocha. Delicious. What’s your drink of choice?

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