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.
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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.
Utica Greens Recipe
Utica Greens – a traditional Italian-American dish featuring escarole, hot cherry peppers and garlic – a delicious way to serve greens
Chocolate Pumpkin Trifle
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Here is a quick recipe for a Chocolate Pumpkin Trifle, decorated with chocolate candy.
Arugula & Sausage Pasta Skillet
One of the best things about summer is all the fresh and tasty vegetables that are available. Being able to eat vegetables right after they are picked is amazing. I belong to a CSA to make sure I get plenty of fresh local vegetables every week, and a few times this summer I have received leafy green arugula, which I used to make this Arugula & Sausage Pasta Skillet.
Arugula is a leafy green vegetable with a spicy peppery taste that stands out more than the greens I usually cook with like spinach. I have tried it in salads, but I especially like it cooked, and it goes perfectly with Italian flavors like spicy sausage and tomatoes.
Delicious Zucchini Recipes
This time of year it seems like everyone has plenty of zucchini! Zucchini plants seem to produce faster than most people can eat it. So to help I put together a collection of zucchini recipes from blogs around the internet, with many different ideas for what you can make with it.
There are many creative options beyond just sauteeing it in olive oil. You can make it into chips for a snack, serve it in a frittata for breakfast or turn it into cupcakes or cake for dessert. I even found a recipe for zucchini popsicles, which I have to try!Â
Zucchini Sausage Casserole
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This time of year I am inundated with zucchini! So I am always trying to come up with different ways to serve zucchini, like this Zucchini Sausage Casserole.
My family and I are members of a CSA, so we get a big box of seasonal vegetable from a local farm every week. I made this recipe by using a whole bunch of the vegetables we received, including zucchini, yellow summer squash, fennel, onions and green pepper. I thought sausage would combine well with the flavors, and it certainly did! I used hot Italian sausage because my family likes spicy foods, but sweet would work well too.