One of the best things about fall is apples! We have two apple trees in our yard and love to pick the apples and turn them into tasty treats. Last year we had more apples than we could use, but this year we have a smaller harvest.
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Apple Spice Cupcakes with Caramel Sauce
Apple Spice Cupcakes with Caramel Sauce – These tasty cupcakes are apple flavored topped with cream cheese cinnamon frosting & drizzled with gooey caramel sauce
No-bake Oreo Cheesecake Cups with Cherries Recipe
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A few weeks ago my husband and I were out for dinner, and the restaurant had Oreo Cheesecake on the menu. We were too full for dessert, but I decided I had to make Oreo Cheesecake for the family. Since it has been so hot I didn’t want to run the oven, and decided to create No Bake Oreo Cheesecake Cups for the family to enjoy.
Lemon Blueberry Shortbread Cookies
These Lemon Blueberry Shortbread cookies are tasty shortbread treats with a hint of fruit.
To get the fruity taste I made a basic shortbread recipe and added some dried blueberries to the dough.
Double Chocolate Mint Cupcakes for St. Patrick’s Day
My 16 year old daughter, Eleanor, is obsessed with making cupcakes and cakes lately! For Christmas she got a cake decorating kit and lessons, and she has been making sweets constantly ever since. Last week she made these Double Chocolate Mint cupcakes, which are perfect for St. Patrick’s Day. The are chocolate cupcakes filled with chocolate mousse and topped with mint flavored whipped cream frosting, and they tasted amazing.
Valentine’s Day Sugar Cookies
These Valentine’s sugar cookies are an easy dessert for the holiday!
I made the cookies by using two sizes of heart shaped cookie cutters, and cutting out a heart shaped window in half the cookies.
Chocolate Raspberry Ho Ho Trifle
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This Chocolate Raspberry Ho Ho Trifle is easy to make and looks and tastes amazing!
Sometimes you just want to make a festive dessert without a ton of effort! This trifle is very visually appealing, but it takes only a few minutes to make.
Ho Hos are a snack that is a guilty pleasure for me. I don’t eat them often, but they were my Dad’s favorite, so they always remind me of him. And something about the layers of chocolate and cream just make them special. Of course a trifle is just a layers of cake and cream, so it seemed like a perfect fit for these snacks.
Mini Chocolate Cheesecake with Raspberries
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It is the time of year when everyone is trying to lose weight and eat more healthy foods! But it is so hard to resist tasty desserts, which is why I made these Mini Chocolate Cheesecake. These bite sized desserts are pretty and delicious – and at the same time they are low calorie, because they were made with Splenda, not with sugar.
Too Much Sugar
Most Americans eat far too much sugar, so using a sugar substitute makes a lot of sense.
The 22 teaspoons of sugar eaten daily by the average American is more than triple the recommended amount for women, and more than double the recommended amount for men. Small, easy changes like using sugar substitutes can really add up over time, while still allowing you to enjoy delicious desserts like these Mini Chocolate Cheesecake!
Red Velvet Cookies
Make these Holiday Red Velvet Cookies – they are drizzled with white chocolate and sprinkled with peppermint candy! Easy to make using a cake mix as a base. – Better than the box dessert
Gingersnap Cookie Recipe – Christmas Cookies
Gingersnaps are one of my favorite cookie recipes. They keep well and have a distinct molasses and ginger taste, perfect for the Holiday season. This recipe is a family recipe that was handed down from my Great Aunt Tina. I don’t remember ever meeting my Great Aunt Tina, but that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy her cookie recipe!
Chemistry Cookies
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The Creative Cookie Exchange blog theme for this month is decorated cookies. Originally I was thinking of making holiday cookies, but then I saw these adorable Chemistry cookie cutters, and I just decided to forget the holidays and go for a science theme.
These Chemistry Cookies are a simple shortbread cutout cookie made to look like Erlenmeyer flasks, beakers and atoms. I teach high school chemistry at a local homeschool co-op, so I love these perfect chemical treats. After all a lot of cooking is just chemistry in action.
White Chocolate Pumpkin Bars
Pumpkin and chocolate are one of my favorite flavor combinations, and to make these White Chocolate Pumpkin Bars I used white chocolate instead of dark chocolate for a totally different taste!
These take a little effort to prepare, because you have to make two separate batters and swirl them together for layers of white chocolate and pumpkin. But the result is worth the effort! The white chocolate layer is more cake like, and the pumpkin layer is more dense and chewy, for a great combination of tastes and textures.