Usually I'm not a big fan of spring, but I've come around to it this year.
For one, we've been blessed with wonderful weather here in California. I love the rain, so I'm welcoming El Nino with open arms. But on the days when it isn't raining, it's perfectly sunny and not too warm, not too cool. If it could be like this forever, I'd never leave!
I think my change of heart
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Pineapple Upside Down Cheesecake Bars
Pineapple upside down cake is one of those cakes I often forget about.
For one, it isn't super popular - is it? I never see it on any restaurant menu, and even our local bakery doesn't sell it readily. And growing up, we had it about as often as we had liver and onions, which, if you couldn't guess, was never.
It wasn't until I was an adult that I finally experienced this
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Coconut Cream Pie Gooey Bars
I am obsessed with random facts.
I absolutely, positively love learning random things that have no use in my brain whatsoever. My personal favorite are facts that totally blow my mind, leaving me in a state of semi-paralysis while I ponder my existential crisis.
You know, just a normal Tuesday.
Like, okay - did you know Maine is the closest U.S. state to Africa?
Or
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Hummingbird Bundt Cake
Can you believe this was the first time I've tried Hummingbird Cake?!
I know. Me either.
In my defense - and probably in many of yours - I hadn't really known about Hummingbird Cake until recently. It's a Southern cake, so if you're from the South you're probably way ahead of me. Allow me to catch up!
Most people know about red velvet cake - aka, the most Southern cake
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Salted Cadbury Egg Blondies
Can I be real with you for a sec?
I've tried to like Cadbury Eggs - I really have. I buy them every year, thinking that this year will be different. That, and the adorable rabbit on the package. Seriously, they could put that rabbit on a pack of cigarettes and I'd buy them - and I don't even smoke.
But honestly? I don't much care for the chocolate. I know, I know - don't
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