The inspiration for this recipe started with a school class breakfast for my daughter. She wanted to bring in muffins and happens to loves dark chocolate and cranberries. These two flavors work really well together in this muffin recipe. While I like cranberries once in awhile I am always a fan of dark chocolate.… Read More Cranberry and Dark Chocolate Chip Muffins
Alright, you’ll probably start to notice that a lot of recipes I like and keep baking have cinnamon in them. Cinnamon is a big flavor hit in my house. My husband likes vanilla, I love dark chocolate and my kids like anything sweet. However, all of us love cinnamon! I really don’t think I liked… Read More Cinnamon Chip Cookies You’ll Love
I thought with Mother’s Day coming up it might be fun to make a colorful flower cake. While I love chocolate and think chocolate roses are pretty, I decided on vanilla for this one so I could use different colors. I made several pink roses and then mostly drop flowers to decorate the cake. I… Read More Colorful Drop Flower Cake – With Roses
My first experience making any type of yeast bread at home was with a bread machine. Once I had been doing that for awhile I started only kneading dough in the bread machine and then baking the bread in loaf pans in the oven after the knead cycle was complete. I did this for a… Read More Julia Child – White Sandwich Bread (with a twist of cinnamon)
Here’s a fun little recipe that is easy to pull together and tastes great! I only started using puff pastry recently but I love how easy and convenient it is to use. It is fun to make savory or sweet treats with the flaky layers without having to go through all of the time and… Read More Puff Pastry Bites with Raspberries and Cream
Did you know that you only need 3 ingredients to make whipped cream? Once it is sweetened and has vanilla added it is actually called Chantilly cream but I’ve found most people still call it whipped cream or sweetened whipped cream. I used to always buy the sweetened whipped cream in a can not knowing… Read More Homemade Whipped Cream
I have been working on different scone recipes for awhile and the experimenting has finally paid off. My inspiration for these particular scones comes from those yummy cinnamon crunch scones at Panera. I wanted to be able to make a scrumptious cinnamon scone right at home. Unfortunately, my first try were not all that impressive.… Read More The Best Cinnamon Chip Scones
One of the breads I see at most supermarkets here in Ireland are Hot Cross Buns. For Easter this year I decided to make my own. As I started researching recipes I kept coming across mixed peel. This is something I was not all that familiar with. As I looked it up I found it… Read More Mixed Peel Recipe
This weekend will be St. Patrick’s Day! Never did I think I’d be living in Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day. Since arriving I’ve been thinking about different recipes to try and create while I’m here. I knew I would want to try something with Irish Cream. I settled on the idea of making a Shamrock… Read More Shamrock Irish Cream Cake
Fondant is a fun way to make decorative and beautiful cake creations. I only make and use it fresh though. It is much much better homemade. You will find that the more you work with it the better you will become at decorating with it. It opens up a whole new area of cake decorating.… Read More Fondant Recipe