Coconut, Pumpkin, and Chocolate Chips!

I’ve been trying to use up some ingredients in my pantry.  I found some pumpkin and coconut and thought, “there has to be something I can do with both of these”.  It turns out – there is!  I found this great recipe for pumpkin coconut muffins.  The sugar on top was my idea (and ended up […]

Perfect Chocolate Cake Recipe

As a chocoholic, I have great appreciation for a really gooood chocolate cake.  It’s so easy to make a boring, dry chocolate cake.  So, I’m always on the hunt for a great recipe. I like to take a base recipe and then adjust some of the ingredients to suit my tastes.  My chocolate cake needs to […]

Super Chewy Donuts

super extra chewy donut

One of the things I missed most about Maryland was the FOOD!  I had some fierce super chewy donut cravings.  Don’t get me wrong – Texas definitely delivered when it came to good food as well.  It’s just a different kind of food I missed.  Above all, the crabs!  Second to that is the delicious […]

Craving Glazed Coconut Cake

    I’ve been craving anything coconut lately.  It’s odd because I don’t remember EVER craving that before.  Anyway, I made this A.MAZ.ING. coconut cake and wanted to share just incase you need your coconut fix too.  It fed any craving I had and then some.  It’s so delicious! There are three main parts… (1) […]

Hot Cocoa Cake

class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;” My little girl LOVES Oswald from Nick Jr.  Henry, the penguin Oswald’s friend  and talks about his hot cocoa quite often.  He likes it with,”Two marshmallows.  No more.  No less.” How I created this cake:  I used an 8 cup batter bowl from Pampered Chef.  It’s the one people use to make […]

Bear Cake

So I wanted to make a bear cake for a certain special someone in my house.  He’s as sweet as can be so it had to be a great cake for my handsome little stinker.  After some thought, I came up with this… It’s as easy as pie to assemble and turned out looking like an […]