Strawberry Thumb Prints

 

Sugar Cookies

 

Orange Pound Cake

 

Cinnamon Bites

 

Mama’s Homemade Peach Cobbler

 

Beef & Cheese Manicotti

 

Blueberry Muffins

 

American Dessert Pizza

 

This was the perfect festive idea for a treat to take to work. They loved it! 

Hardee's Copycat Biscuits Take 1

 

My husband and I love Hardee's (Carls Jr) biscuits, they are the best in town from any fast-food place. I found a recipe online and I had to try it. Unfortunately, I once again had an ingredient fumble. It called for self-rising flour, and I used All Purpose Flour. I think that is why they are so dense. Besides being golden brown, they are not good. 

Lemon Pound Cake

 

This delicious Lemon Pound Cake has a Lemon Glaze icing. It is so scrumptious. A wonderful dessert paired with a hot cup of tea if you ask me, but I will eat it any way I can! I found this recipe at  AllRecipes.com 

Chocolate Buttercream frosted White Cupcakes

 

Had an overabundance of chocolate buttercream frosting from making my daughter's birthday cake. Unfortunately, the cake didn't taste too good since I didn't use the bittersweet chocolate, so I needed a cake do over, I decided to make cupcakes. These cupcakes with the chocolate buttercream are to die for. So tasty! I also wanted to practice frosting with another icing tip to try and make these flower shapes on my cupcakes. I am pleased with the outcome and the flavor.

Chocolate Vanilla Swirl Birthday Cake

 

Hello friends and followers! 

It was my daughter's 29th birthday this week and she requested a Chocolate-Vanilla Swirl Birthday Cake. And specified NO BOX CAKE MIXES. So off I went to hop on the computer to research. I found a recipe and it did mention not to over mix the recipe something about making it dense. My texture was that of a pound cake, so maybe I overmixed? Besides the texture of the cake, my chocolate side of the cake was not the best. She did say bittersweet chocolate and not to substitute that it would change the flavor, but I couldn't find anything in the store that said it was bittersweet. So, I grabbed Nestle Semi-sweet chips and melted them in a double boiler and added it to the cake mix. Who doesn't like chocolate chips?  I set aside to become the chocolate cake side of the cake batter. Number one, the density of the cake, they said it was like a brownie, in my opinion a pound cake fits the description better, and the taste was not so good, possibly the chips were not the right chocolate. The icing was basically sweetened chocolate butter...lol! How can you fail butter in any flavor? The icing tasted better than ever, and the decorated cake was a hit!  Even the inside looked good. 

Practice makes perfection, I must try this again with the right chocolate for the chocolate side of the cake. I will try to give an update when I do. ;) These adorable white flowers are wafers, I wouldn't eat them myself, but they were pretty and made my terrible icing skills look amazing! 

Lemon Cake Mix Cookies

A lady at work I call her “the cookie lady” even though more than one can bake some delicious cookies. This particular gal had the power to change my favorite cookie from chocolate chip to these delicious lemon cookies with white chips. Mmmmm, so good! I had to find the recipe for myself and in my search I found something called cake mix cookies. It’s a lemon cake mix, 2 eggs, 1 stick of butter and white chips, bake at 375 for 8 to 10 minutes you will not be disappointed. I rolled mine in powdered sugar and added a 1/4 tsp of lemon extract, and lemon juice in my batter for added extra lemon flavoring. Nothing like fresh baked cookies right out of the oven with a glass of milk.