As a kid, we always went to this local pumpkin farm whenever it was open for the season.
It was a family owned farm, but it was pretty obvious it was owned by a family who really didn't care too much about appearances, nor pumpkins.
The pumpkins to pick from were mildly attractive at best and they charged like $100/pound per pumpkin so my parents never let us get any from
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Chocolate Cookie Cups with Peanut Butter Cheesecake Frosting and National Dessert Month with California Milk and Tieks!
Happy Monday, everyone!
Did you know that October is National Dessert Month? That pretty much makes October the best month ever, in my opinion... and it's like they coordinated it perfectly with Halloween and the excess of candy coming my way. I cannot wait!!
As you know, as a baker I'm constantly working with a variety of products. But the one product I use the
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Bloody Eyeball Cupcakes
These are dedicated to my brother, Alex, who has an absolutely crippling fear of eyeballs.
I'm such a great older sister.
It may be hard to believe, but as I kid I really wanted to fit in. When a classmate came to school one day wearing a training bra, I was so green with envy that the next day I wore a swimsuit top and told everyone I was wearing a training bra. No, not
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The BEST Chewy Pumpkin Chip Cookies
Can you believe there was a time when I disliked pumpkin?
I know. It's like I was abducted by aliens or under some terrible influence of pumpkin-hating hallucinogens or something. Thank goodness I found my way down the appropriate pumpkin-loving path because had I not, I would have never discovered the joy that are these cookies.
A couple weeks ago, a reader named Holly
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Caramel Apple Magic Bars
Caramel apples are one of my favorite things evereverever.
But ya see, I have this *thing* with biting into apples. Maybe it was because when I was a kid, I had this loose tooth and my cousin so brightly suggested I bite down hard into an apple to somehow dislodge said tooth. After trying and trying and biting and biting, we eventually just yanked the damn tooth out -- but
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Copycat Cosmic Brownies
While in the grocery store check-out lane, I spotted some Grape Tic-Tacs.
Ever since I can remember, I was a grape fan for most things. I liked grape suckers. I loved grape juice. Grape popsicles were my jam, as was grape jam. So grape Tic Tacs? No brainer; that was in my cart faster than you can say "duh."
And they were inhaled even faster. I have this thing with mints.
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Maple Caramel Bacon Crack
So can we talk about these new Bayer commercials?
Have you seen them?
Basically, it shows regular people doing ordinary things when they're greeted by the most morbid of notes explaining they're going to have a heart attack tonight or tomorrow. One is of a woman having lunch with her woman friends when the receipt comes. On the bottom, instead of applying that BOGO coupon
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Pizza {A Food Fanatic Post!}
Haaaaaaiii guys.
So some of you may not know, but I'm now a regular contributor at the awesomesauce website, Food Fanatic!
Food Fanatic is FANTASTIC for food-lovers (like you!) and curates original, delicious and easy recipes from around the web and from some of your favorite bloggers into one convenient site. Bookmark it - I promise it'll be a new fave!
Anywho, over
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Candy Corn Magic Bars
A couple days ago, I got my breakfast ready and headed to the couch to catch up on some of my favorite guilty pleasure shows: Real Housewives of Orange County: Secrets Revealed; MasterChef; Hotel Hell; and America's Next Top Model.
I typically watch these (with the exception of MasterChef) when no one is home because the judging and disapproving looks I get from my parents
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Pumpkin Snack Cake
If you're looking for an easy and impressive pumpkin cake recipe, look no further! This is quite possibly one of my new favorite recipes for its ease in preparation and how it's positively packed with pumpkiny goodness!
So as you guys know, I was in NYC for a week and was pretty MIA on my blog. I apologize for that - I was plenty absorbed in the city lights, pretzel
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