The cinnamon roll you want on Christmas morning or any morning. From scratch, sweet and comforting, these Chocolate Chip Walnut Cinnamon Rolls are perfect. Make them the night before to make your morning even easier. The holiday season can be tough for anyone. It's 4 weeks of crazy with a bunch of family and wrapping paper involved. So, after a week that has seemed like a ...
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Easy Rocky Road Candy
Easy Rocky Road Candy is a quick, fun gift from the kitchen that can be made in a flash! Perfect to make with your kids and as a gift for teachers and friends! I'm always astonished to find myself at the beginning of October thinking about the impending holiday season. It always sneaks up on me. You would think that after nearly 40 years on this Earth I wouldn't be ...
Peanut Butter Marbled Fudge
This time of year is rough on me. I struggle with it emotionally and physically. I'm talking of course about being surrounded by sweets 24/7. I'm struggling to physically get my butt into my pants and I'm struggling emotionally trying to convince myself to not eat all of the delicious sweets that I have surrounded myself with. I'm okay with it for now. January will be here ...
Easy Chocolate Zucchini Cake
It became abundantly clear on our recent vacation with my in-laws just how perilously close our children are to the teenage years. Even though our annual pilgrimage to the lake was full of the usual childish giddiness of vacation, each activity was punctuated by a solid dose of 9-year old sass. Our daughter ( now often heard referred to as “your daughter”) was the worst ...
Quick and Easy Chocolate Halloween Bark
If you are looking for a no bake Halloween treat that is sweet, salty and loaded with candy then this Halloween bark is the recipe for you. This bark is perfect for sharing on Halloween night, or maybe you will want to whip up a batch as a way to use your leftover Halloween candy. You will love the mix of candy bars, peanuts, pretzels and chocolate that this homemade ...
Chocolate Mousse with Whiskey Cream
Minor holidays that once were merely a reason for my husband and I to go out to a nice dinner or buy each other a sweet card are now filled with dread for me. Holidays like Valentine’s Day are now a gaping black hole where I just throw my hard earned money so that my children don’t feel left out at school. Why do parents feel the need to send their kids balloon-a-grams, a dozen ...
Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls
An easy no-bake Christmas gift like Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls is worth its weight in gold. Make a double batch and hand out to all of your kids' teachers and neighbors! The kids are finally out of school and the final days before Christmas are upon us. The presents are piled under the tree, the twinkle lights are shining, Melvin the Elf is planning his escape, and the ...
Hot Cocoa Mix and Peppermint Marshmallows
Hot cocoa mix and Peppermint marshmallows is a wonderful make ahead gift for those special people in your life. And don't let the marshmallows freak you out, they are much easier to make than you would imagine. My kids have some extraordinary teachers. They are kind-hearted, patient and have managed to make Kindergarten the most fun place to be for my babies. Honestly, my ...
Chocolate Covered Popcorn Balls
I can remember just about every Halloween outfit I ever wore as a child, mostly because I dressed as the same thing every year. My Mom and I would pull out every scarf and gaudy piece of jewelry we could find (and there was a plethora of that in the 80’s) and we would both walk around as Gypsys for a few hours on Halloween night. We pulled out all the stops, blue eye shadow and ...
From Scratch Chocolate Meringue Pie
Speaking of enjoyable, this Chocolate Meringue Pie is one of my favorite ways to blow a diet. It's so rich and creamy and the ingredients to make one is almost always in my house. It's pretty darn inexpensive, too. Sugar, flour, cocoa, eggs, milk, butter, vanilla and a pie crust and you've got yourself an impressive dessert that everyone will love. If you can get your hands on ...
Quick Chocolate Donuts with a Fresh Strawberry Glaze
I love donuts. I consider the donut to be the 8th wonder of the world. Yeast donuts or cake donuts will make any morning infinitely better. Either simply glazed or stuffed with jam, donuts are a wonderful morning treat. There are two problems with donuts. 1 - The light, fluffy yeast type ( a la Krispy Kreme) take a while to make. You can't just wake up in the morning and throw ...
Aunt Linda’s Blackbottom Cupcakes
Aunt Linda's Blackbottom Cupcakes are a chocolate confection that dreams are made of. A chocolate outside with a cream cheese middle, Aunt Linda's Blackbottom Cupcakes are the prefect treat for holidays and everyday! So, back in the day. Waayyyy back in the day, my great grandmother, Mama Driver, held all of the family holiday gatherings at her house. It was this tiny little ...
Southern Fudge Pie
As my kids have reminded me time and time again, Christmas is nearly here. It's so close they can smell it. The presents, the lights, the Chocolate! Nothing is more looked forward to in our house than chocolate. We all crave it on pretty much a daily basis. Which means that we don't always have a whole lot of chocolate laying around. We have usually eaten it all. Not ...
Chocolate Cracker Cookies
Because I have two 4 year olds, I am always on the look out for recipes that they would be able to help me with easily. Sometimes it's easier said and done, but I ran across this one in a Taste of Home Magazine and added an extra ingredient so all three of us had a job to do. I wasn't sure how the crackers would do with the chocolate, but they are surprisingly very good. It ...
Classic Beef Chili
It's cold and wet and dreary way down here in Georgia. Weather like this just makes me want to put on my sweatpants and curl up on the couch with a good book. And I would if my sweatpants were clean and my kids could entertain themselves for an hour or two. I guess laundry is high on the list of things to do today. At least the dryer will keep the house warm. Cold, wet, and ...