Halloween Candy Cheesecake. Willowbird baking Challenge #5, the final challenge. Cheesecake. Or my version of what to do with your kids leftover Halloween candy. Leftover Halloween candy? Is that like leftover wine? This halloween candy cheesecake provides the best of two worlds - cheesecake and, well, halloween candy. I use the mini halloween chocolate candies...
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Homemade Honey Vanilla Marshmallows
Homemade marshmallows are absolutely amazing and a lot easier to make than one would think. These honey vanilla marshmallows have so much more flavor than store bought, they melt in your mouth and are perfect for snacking on, making smore's, or topping a mug of hot chocolate. Marshmallows are traditionally made with corn syrup, I...
Apple Cider Cupcakes with Persimmon Swiss Meringue Buttercream
Apple Cider Cupcakes filled with Fuyu Persimmon curd and Fuyu Persimmon Buttercream. Yum. Apple Cider. Persimmons. An unusual combination of flavors that really work so well together. I couldn't have picked a more hectic week to do a more involved than normal cupcake. Pretty much everything we had going on with life, kids and work...
Inside Out Chocolate Cherry Sachertorte Cookies
Inside Out Chocolate Cherry Sachertorte cookies for Julie of Willowbird Baking's challenge series. This is challenge number three and the theme today is filled cookies recipes. Willowbird Baking's Challenge #2 is for filled cookie. Think of a cookie that has a surprise middle or something that isn't a usual filling, say an oreo like these...
Pumpkin Butter And Ginger Poached Pear Danish Braid Pastry
Pumpkin Butter And Brown Sugar Ginger Poached Pear Danish Braid Pastry . This recipe is for Julie from WillowBird Baking's Challenge #2. A braid pastry. Or as I call it, "Autumn" on a plate. I had recently made a batch of pumpkin butter with leftover roasted sugar pie pumpkin puree I had made for a...
Candy Corn M&M, Roasted Macadamia Nut and Sea Salt Blondies
Candy Corn M&M, Roasted Macadamia Nut and Sea Salt Blondies I am in awe of really good food photography, you know the pics that you stare at that you want whatever is on the plate at your house on your table ready for you to shove in your mouth that very second because whatever is...
Roasted Pumpkin, White Bean and Goat Cheese Taquitos with Roasted Tomatillo, Jalapeno and Avocado salsa
Pumpkin taquitos are amazing with white bean and goat cheese served with a killer roasted tomatillo, jalapeno and avocado salsa. Yup. Another recipe with pumpkin. This will continue until I run out of pumpkin. Which may be never since my husband just informed me that since I love pumpkin so much he added a "squash"...
Boozy Brown Butter Cupcakes with Pumpkin Buttercream
Boozy Brown Butter Cupcakes with Pumpkin Buttercream. Ridiculous name, ridiculously tasty. That's my 4 year old's new favorite word. She calls everyone " ridiculous" these days. Pretty funny if you ask me. Cracks me up when kids use big words, even more so when they use them in the correct context. Since its full blown...
Gluten Free Pumpkin Waffles
Gluten Free Pumpkin Waffles are delicious and crispy waffles with fall flavors and spices. Perfect way to ease into pumpkin season with this sweet breakfast treat. I saw this on Pinterest a couple weeks ago and was dying laughing, because its true!! September 1st hits and regardless that most of the country is still in...
Homemade Gluten Free All purpose flour blend
This gluten free all purpose flour blend is a great alternative to regular all purpose flour used in a variety of recipes. Easy to mix up and you can substitute it cup for cup for regular all purpose flour in any recipe. It seems more and more people are turning to a gluten free lifestyle...
Grilled Veggie Chicken Tortilla Soup
Grilled Veggie Chicken Tortilla Soup is a delicious variation of my favorite soup. I absolutely love chicken tortilla soup. In fact, I "judge" any good Mexican restaurant on how good their chicken tortilla soup is. And when I find a place that has a good one, I try to tweak my own recipe to try...
Simple Roast Chicken
Simple Roast Chicken. So good. So simple. Everyone should know how to roast a whole chicken. Or salt and pepper chicken as my kids call it. I love to roast a whole chicken. In fact, I roast one almost weekly. That's how much I love it. So many people are scared to cook a whole...
Chocolate Peanut Butter Hi-Hat Cupcakes
There is just really something fun with Hi-Hat cupcakes. The idea of a chocolate dipped cupcake with a mountain of frosting underneath sounds ridiculous and overly decadent at the same time. My kind of cupcake! Since the majority of my cupcakes go with the hubs to work, his co-workers are starting to find which ones...
Best Ever Chocolate Cupcake Recipe
I figured I should start transferring my recipes from my old blog over here to their new home and what better way to start that off than with my favorite, my own best ever chocolate cupcakes recipe. This was a couple years in the making, always trying and adapting recipes searching for that perfect recipe....