No need to wait all year for the seasonal drinks when you can have these Gingerbread Latte Cupcakes all year round if you wanted to! Perfectly spiced gingerbread molasses cupcakes with a hint of coffee, topped with a brown sugar buttercream and a chocolate-covered espresso bean. Your orders ready!
People ask me where I get my recipe ideas from, and the truth is:
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Perfect Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
These Perfect Chocolate Crinkle Cookies are the BEST I've tried! Perfectly crisp and crinkly on the outside with a soft, almost fudge-like interior. A Christmastime staple!
So, confession time: I never had crinkle cookies until I was an adult!
Clearly, my childhood had some severe issues.
There's a local cookie shop and I'm lowkey obsessed with their cookies,
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Sticky Paws (Williams Sonoma Copycat)
Just like the holiday offering at Williams Sonoma, these Copycat Sticky Paws taste even better than the original! Easy, quick, and so delicious - they're perfect for gifting!
So I have a confession to make: I never visit Williams Sonoma.
It's located smack-dab in the middle of all those obnoxious kiosks in the mall - you know, the ones where they try to shove skincare
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Gingerbread Blondies with Cream Cheese Icing
These Gingerbread Blondies are soft, chewy and perfectly spiced and topped with a luscious cream cheese frosting! A fun and easier alternative to cut-out gingerbread men!
I am SO weird with ginger. I'm usually not a picky eater, but I am SO picky about this darned spice.
For starters, I loathe fresh ginger. It gives me the heebie-jeebies and it tastes like soap to me.
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No-Bake Nutella Squares
These No-Bake Nutella Squares are a fun, EASY dessert to try any time of year, and they taste just like the award-winning chocolate dessert on-board the Ruby Princess cruise ships!
So I'm having cruise-ship withdrawals.
Majorly.
And they now infiltrate my dreams. MY DREAMS! I lived in my last house for almost 10 years and I didn't ever have dreams about that house -
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Eggnog Crinkle Cookies
Calling all eggnog lovers! These Eggnog Crinkle Cookies are for serious 'nog lovers: Gooey, soft and buttery with a delicious nutmeg & rum flavor!
So today is a super special day! Why?
It's my friend Kayle's virtual baby shower!
Kayle and I have known each other for a minute now - since 2012 or so, around the time I started making blog friends. She blogs over at
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Easy Homemade Ferrero Rocher Truffles
If you love those golden orbs known as Ferrero Rocher, you'll FLIP for these Easy Homemade Ferrero Rocher Truffles! Packed with flavor and only a few ingredients, they taste even BETTER than the real deal!
It should be no surprise that holiday baking is my all-time fave.
There's something so magical and fun about holiday flavors and making bite-size candies and treats to
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Perfect Southern Pecan Pralines
Even if you've never been to the South, you have GOT to try this recipe for my Perfect Southern Pecan Pralines! A cross between cookies and candy, this unique, melt-in-your-mouth treat is studded with pecans with a wonderful buttery flavor. Totally irresistible!
I have only been to the South a couple of times, but each time I have gone, I have actively sought out pecan
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Best Ever Peanut Butter Buckeye Truffles
These truly are the BEST EVER Buckeye Truffles! All of my friends and neighbors raved over these bite-size morsels of deliciousness and dubbed them "to die for!"
I have to admit, I really enjoyed these truffles.
So much so that I got rid of them all after taking my first bite because I knew eating them would be a downward slippery slope. Actually, less slippery slope,
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Fig & Vanilla Bean Crumb Cake
This buttery, moist Fig & Vanilla Bean Crumb Cake will become your new favorite! With a sweet, sticky fig flavor and flecks of warm vanilla beans, it's sure to please everyone!
Hey everyone! Happy Tuesday :)
I'm here to formally apologize to fruit, because I don't bake with you nearly as much as I should. And with my apology, comes my amends to bake with fruit more
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