You won't believe it, but these are the BEST, FOOLPROOF NO-CHILL CUT-OUT SUGAR COOKIES EVER. Like, ever ever. No dough chilling required, made in minutes and yields the most perfect cut-out cookies with a sweet vanilla flavor. Plus, my royal icing glaze recipe is the best!
There is no other Christmas cookie more perfect than the sugar cookie.
Quintessential, classic,
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Christmas Crockpot Candy
Christmas Crockpot Candy is a classic holiday staple! This easy recipe will soon become your go-to for simple but delicious candies.
While I try to innovate and make new, exciting things all the time for the blog, sometimes I just gotta have a classic recipe on here. Although based on how simple this candy is, I struggle to call it a "recipe."
Yes, every food blogger has
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Perfect Pairings Ultimate Foodie Gift Guide
Hi, and welcome to my ULTIMATE Foodie Gift Guide!
I wanted to put out a gift guide featuring some of my favorite products, hot ticket items, and amazing cookbooks by my friends that would make excellent gifts for all the foodies on your list! Whether you're shopping for the fashiony foodie, the baker extraordinaire, the prodigal chef-in-training, or the grill master, there
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Perfect Mint Chocolate Brownies
These classic Mint Chocolate Brownies are a festive must-make for your holiday dessert trays! Layers of super fudgy brownies with a fluffy mint buttercream and a creamy chocolate ganache topping, they're as delicious as they are show-stopping!
I am all about easy, impressive desserts any time of year, but especially during the holidays.
Since I am kind of abnormal (well,
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Red Velvet Whoopie Pies
You don't have to be from the South to enjoy southern-style Red Velvet Whoopie Pies! My recipe makes it easy by doctoring up a cake mix for soft, chewy and irresistible whoopie pies in minutes!
So I have a bone to pick with California cuisine.
It's good, but not great. Our Mexican food is generally pretty bomb and authentic, depending on where you go of course. And I love
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Foolproof Microwave Southern Pralines
You guys will never believe how EASY these Foolproof Microwave Southern Pralines are! Made 100% in the microwave, they require NO special candy thermometer and are made in minutes yet taste like traditional, authentic Southern Pralines!
YOU GUYS. Sorry for screaming but also I'm not sorry because these pralines.
They are a GAME CHANGER. A life changer. Seriously
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Best Ever Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies
These truly are the BEST Peanut Butter Blossoms I've ever had! Super soft and chewy peanut butter cookies with addictive crispy outer edges and topped with a gooey Hershey Kiss in the middle!
Christmas baking has begun! Are you ready?!
Okay, so technically we have Thanksgiving, but I am in full Christmas mode. You can call me extra because I've even set up my Christmas
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Baklava Bites
Baklava Bites are a surefire, foolproof way to creating mouthwatering baklava in the comfort of your own home without pesky phyllo sheets! Made with a scratch-made honey syrup and two kinds of nuts, these sticky-sweet poppable bites are sure to bring smiles to everyone who eats them!
It was only about 13 or so years ago that I discovered baklava and Greek food in
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Super Easy Pecan Pie Bars
My Super Easy Pecan Pie Bars yield perfectly portioned and utterly delicious pecan pie in a portable bar form! You don't want to miss this easy, crowd-pleasing recipe!
How are we pretty much entering November yet?! Did we somehow skip a few months this year and no one noticed? Was I in a minor coma? It's INSANITY, people!
Except Thanksgiving still seems like a light year
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Rebel Favorites: October.
Happy October!
I hope you've all had a great month so far! I know I say this literally every month but I just cannot believe we're already pretty much into the holiday season. I don't know how it happened?! I remember being a kid and the year dragging so painfully slowly that Christmas seemed like a million years away. Now I blinked during my January birthday and suddenly
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