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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Peeps Brownie Bombs
If you know me, you know that my biggest pet peeve has to be when people don't have their headlights on when it's rainy or foggy.
It seriously drives. me. bonkers.
And I always wish that a friendly police officer will drive by and pull the offenders over, giving them the biggest ticket imaginable. Or maybe send them to traffic jail for being a danger to society and an
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Reese’s Egg Brownie Bombs
I have a surprisingly low pain tolerance.
This is weird considering I have 20+ tattoos, some of which are in spots that no one should be tattooed because ouch (Here's looking at you, knee).
That, and I take shots like a pro. In fact, I have a weird thing where I love shots. Knowing I'll be somewhat protected from bubonic plague, leprosy, the flu, and whatever else they
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Strawberry Dole Whips
Well, I'm all finished with my cookbook.
*cue the violin music*
I'm kind of sad it's over. For the past two months, I've worked day in and day out on it, putting my heart and soul into every word, every recipe, every photograph. I really hope when it's all said & done that you guys love it!
And now that it's over (and as I prepare for editing with my publishing
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Chocolate Chip Crumb Cake with Vanilla Bean Glaze
I cannot believe that we're celebrating two major holidays in one month this year!
St. Patrick's Day one week and Easter two weeks later? Craziness.
I mean, who decides how the calendar plays out? Who decided it'd be a grand idea to put Easter two weeks after St. Patrick's Day? Did they not think about how you'd appropriately decorate your house for both holidays? Clearly
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One Hour Bailey’s Mousse
So I'm super embarrassed.
My room looks like a 12 year old's, minus the toys. Actually, replace 'toys' with 'clothes' and you've got my room. It literally looks like a train carrying the entire wardrobe from Torrid crashed into my bedroom and left all the remains everywhere. Utterly unacceptable.
The only problem? Well, problems. One, I've been sick for the past two
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