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Snickerdoodles with Egg Nog Ganache Frosting

December 10, 2017 4 Comments

An easy recipe for Snickerdoodles with Egg Nog Ganache Frosting using store-bought Snickerdoodle mix and an easy to make 3 ingredient frosting.

Filed Under: Christmas, dessert, recipes Tagged With: baking, cookies, recipe

Cranberry Caramel Pecan Cheesecake Bites

November 5, 2016 6 Comments

Cranberry Caramel Pecan Mini Cheesecakes This post contains affiliate links. You all remember those delightfully delicious and ridiculously easy Oreo Cheesecake Bites, right? Well, I’ve given them a sophisticated and delectable upgrade. Cranberry Caramel Pecan Cheesecake Bites. You heard that right, people. These are just as easy but a whole other flavor profile, and at […]

Filed Under: Autumn, baking, dessert, Desserts, recipes

S’mores Ice Cream Pie – an easy summer dessert

August 18, 2015 5 Comments

This post is brought to you by Ginny’s. There truly is a national day for everything, and today happens to be National Ice Cream Pie Day.  (Yes, that’s a thing.)  It’s been incredibly hot here in Southern California and an easy ice cream pie is a great dessert for hot weather.  Sweet and refreshing, you […]

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35 decadent, diet-busting desserts.

July 15, 2015 1 Comment

Yes, yes, I know. It’s summer time… Everyone is thinking swimsuit season and light meals. But don’t you ever want to just chuck it all? To say, “pfft. Screw it. I’ll start my diet tomorrow?” I do. I don’t do it very often, but the next time I decide to dig in to sweet, sweet […]

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Easy Dessert Recipe: Oreo Cheesecake Bites

March 4, 2014 64 Comments

Yesterday I shared a dessert I took to an Oscars Party on Sunday night: my easy recipe for Samoa Brownie Bites, a brownie dessert inspired by those evil Samoa Girl Scout Cookies.   I also brought my Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies and these little gems: bite sized Oreo Cheesecake Bites. These mini cheesecakes are just […]

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Samoa Brownie Bites: Inspired by Samoa Girl Scout Cookies

March 3, 2014 2 Comments

I hate Girl Scout Cookie time.    I have no willpower.  Those sweet girls with their little beanies and sashes, and their boxes of Thin Mints!  I can’t take it!  They make me do bad things like come up with desserts that remind me of my all time favorite, the Samoa Girl Scout Cookies.  (That […]

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How to make a heart shaped cake. (without a heart shaped pan…)

January 24, 2014 Leave a Comment

OK, once I saw it, I wanted to give myself a “could’ve had a V-8” smack to the forehead… but I never knew how to make a heart shaped cake without a heart shaped cake pan.  Not that I have a heart shaped cake pan, mind you, and not that I even make a whole […]

Filed Under: dessert, Desserts, Holidays, recipes, Valentine's Day

Red Velvet Whoopie Pies for Valentine’s Day

January 22, 2014 Leave a Comment

I don’t believe I’ve ever had a Whoopie Pie.  (Raising 4 boys, Whoopie Cushions I know… Whoopie Pies, not so much.)  I know that is shocking to some of you, but I think it may be more of an East Coast thing.  Growing up in California, I had never even heard of them until a […]

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Sweet Marie bars for Valentine’s Day.

January 20, 2014 Leave a Comment

Have you ever heard of a Sweet Marie bar…?   Rice Krispy Treats?  Those I know.   Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups?  Yes, please!  But Sweet Marie bars?  Never heard of them.  Then I saw this: Laura from Pink Cake Plate describes these as when Rice Krispy Treats and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups collide.  I was probably […]

Filed Under: dessert, Desserts, Holidays, recipes, Valentine's Day

3 ingredient Pumpkin Cinnamon Cupcakes from Mom Endeavors.

September 11, 2013 1 Comment

OK.  I love cinnamon.  I love pumpkin.  You know what I love most of all?  Easy.  Don’t these Pumpkin Cinnamon Cupcakes from Mom Endeavors look decadent?  Yep!  You know what else? There are only three ingredients! Click HERE for the reeeeediculously easy recipe!  You can also find Mom Endeavors on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and […]

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