Category Archives: Desserts

Let’s call it what it is… “cake”. A recipe for Espresso coffee cake “muffins”

We can call these espresso coffee cake muffins, but let’s be honest, these muffins are just a delicate buttermilk cake with a crumbly brown sugar & cinnamon frosting spiked with a little coffee to make us feel like it’s okay to eat cake for breakfast. Although they tasted just as good for lunch and dinner. A better name might be coffee cake anytime cupcakes.

If I were your best friend… Lavender honey berry fools

Oprah and Dr. Phil both agree, you have to be your own best friend, so it got me thinking ... this is good advice.  If I were your best friend you could count on me.  For no reason at all, I might bring you flowers or  a berry fool, teach you how to make a ...

A Christmas bucket list… Salted butterscotch everything!

The holidays are sneaky like dogs who steal food off your counter, you turn your back for a second and in the twinkling of an eye ... the butter and the holidays have disappeared before you really got to do everything you really wanted to.   Ohhhh but not this year, I've got my eye on ...

Pumpkin spice churros

Too much of a good thing can be ... Think about it,  what is your answer?  Too much of a good thing can be__________? What category do you fall into? Too much of a good thing can be  _____________? ... a sure sign that something bad is going to happen. ... scary, nothing ever goes right for me - watch ...

Pumpkin is the new chocolate …

Everything tastes better in a Bundt pan and this tasty treat is no exception. The texture is so creamy and light, but loaded with sweet- pumpkin-spice-goodness. A little maple cream cheese frosting never hurt anyone and I needed it to make the walnuts stick to the top like little ruby gemstones.