The holidays are approaching, and I LOVE making and giving gifts from my kitchen! I’ve been working on a whole bunch of giftables, and will be posting lists (with recipes) of all those delicious things soon, so that you can also get your kitchen gifting on! This week’s recipe is one of those giftables: Marshmallow…
Super-Easy Cream Cheese Icing When You Don’t Have Any Cream Cheese
Cream Cheese Icing is a MUST when making carrot cake, and a HIGHLY RECOMMEND when making pumpkin cake. Last week I baked a pumpkin cake, and went to make the cream cheese icing; however, after looking in the fridge, I realized…there was no cream cheese! Egads! What to do? Well, this was a case for…THE…
Maple-Glazed Roast Pumpkin: Veggies are Yum!
It’s pumpkin time! Actually, it’s fall, and October is past and I didn’t have a chance to carve a pumpkin for Halloween. So, I served my Halloween pumpkin up for dinner! With maple syrup, because I’m Canadian like that. Ever eaten oven-baked sweet potatoes? That have been baking on a low heat for a long…
Drunken Cupcakes with Bailey’s Irish Cream: An Easy Showstopper Dessert!
It’s no secret that I love chocolate, and these cupcakes are a grown-up’s version of chocolate cupcakes, all fluffy cake, pillowy buttercream with a hint of something stronger, and then the actual secret sauce…a shot of Bailey’s Irish Cream. That’s right, these are Drunken Cupcakes! Just pure deliciousness with a kick of something to open…
Better-Than-Store-Bought Cranberry Sauce
I love homemade cranberry sauce! Growing up, my father was the one who made the cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving holidays, using only cranberries, sugar and water. My mother doesn’t like cranberry seeds in her sauce, so he has always been careful to sieve them out of the finished product. Love is in the little things…