Baking

Blueberry Sour Cream Muffins with Streusel Topping

When you combine the sweet, juicy burst of blueberry in every bite, an ultra moist muffin, and the buttery, crunch of crumble, you get Blueberry Sour Cream Muffins with Streusel Topping. The absolutely perfect way to start your morning!

three blueberry sour cream muffins on a wire rack

These muffins come together in minutes. The sour cream in the batter makes them perfectly moist with a tender crumb and adds just the right amount of flavor depth to showcase the juicy, fresh blueberries. The delicate, sweet and salty buttery crunch of the streusel is a burst of flavor and texture in every mouthful.

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Homemade Cherry Pie Filling

Homemade Cherry Pie Filling is so easy and delicious and bursting with cherry flavor, you will wonder why you didn’t make it before!

There really and truly isn’t a comparison with Homemade Cherry Pie Filling and what comes out of a can.

Homemade Cherry Pie Filling is literally bursting with cherry flavor. It’s so easy and delicious and so much better then store bought, you will want to never buy premade again! The results are just sweet enough to satisfy with a smidge of tart, but overwhelming cherry flavor. A hint of vanilla and almond really enhance the cherries.

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Chocolate Almond Croissant Puffs

Crisp, buttery layers of puff pastry surround melty, dark chocolate and creamy, toasted almond essence. These 4 ingredient Chocolate Almond Croissant Puffs are ridiculously easy to assemble, bakery impressive to look at, and decadent to eat!

They are the perfect treat for dessert, brunch, lunch, and everything in between including the coffee or tea addition that you have been missing!

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Butter Pecan Cookies Recipe

Toasted pecans magically marry with a tender-crisp, buttery, not too sweet, almost shortbread-like consistency to make this Butter Pecan Cookies Recipe. Is there any more superlatives I can throw at this cookie?!? Topped with candied pecans, these cookies are a sweet, salty, buttery bite of delight!

metal cookie sheet of butter pecan cookies

I’m truly an honest believer that quality ingredients can make a recipe. This is the perfect example of that. The list isn’t extensive or complicated, but the results truly are extraordinary.

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Easy Pumpkin Muffins with Pecan Streusel

This ultra-moist, intensely pumpkin muffin is perfectly spiced and topped with a buttery, nutty, crispy-crumble in every bite. Easy Pumpkin Muffins with Pecan Streusel are pure muffin perfection! And YES! This muffin magic happens in about 30 minutes.

I won’t bore you with my long-lasting love affair with all things pumpkin and pumpkin spice, I’ll simply say that I’m definitely qualified, with a vast experience, to say that this is the BEST PUMPKIN MUFFIN I have every had. Period.

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Apple Cinnamon Swirl Loaf

Is this Apple Cinnamon Swirl Loaf a cake, a bread, for breakfast, dessert, or shall we just all agree that it’s delicious?

With a crackly, cinnamon brown sugar crust baked along the bottom, sides, and top, this Apple Cinnamon Swirl Loaf is a show stopper right from the beginning. Tender, bright apple tidbits wrapped in cinnamon and brown sugar are then swirled into an ultra moist, buttermilk batter and baked to golden, fragrant cinnamon perfection!

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Grilled Triple Berry Crisp in a Cast Iron Skillet

Grilled Triple Berry Crisp in a Cast Iron Skillet combines the juiciest, fresh berries of the season with all the added flavor and enjoyment of firing up the barbecue grill. A golden, buttery crumble with a pinch of cinnamon tops these bubbling berries.

I am a serious fan of the backyard barbecue. Lounging on the patio with a glass of wine or iced sun-tea while the grill does it’s thing and the kids run around the backyard is my idea of heaven. If I can sit on my patio while the whole meal cooks on the grill, that is even better yet!

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German Chocolate Sheet Cake Recipe

This German Chocolate Sheet Cake recipe is a thin, fudgy, ultra-moist slice of decadent heaven topped with the buttery, nutty, toasty crunch of pecans and coconut in a crazy-easy, crackly warm glaze.

a piece of german chocolate sheet cake on a whiteplate

Based on a classic Buttermilk Texas Chocolate Sheet Cake that’s been a proven winner since the 50’s, this jelly-roll pan sized cake is perfect for every birthday or potluck. And did I mention it’s topped with a drizzly glaze that soaks delightfully into the cake crumb and is loaded with toasted coconut and crunchy pecans?

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Easy Carrot Sheet Cake Recipe from Scratch

This is THE BEST, easy Carrot Sheet Cake recipe from scratch! Perfectly moist? Delicate crumb? Sweet, carrot flavor? Ultra-creamy and smooth cream cheese frosting? Crunchy, candied pecans? Yes, yes, and YES to all of that!

This is my favorite recipe for carrot cake. It is 100% made from scratch, ridiculously easy to make, incredibly versatile, and utterly delicious. AND…it might be the OLDEST recipe in my personal recipe book.

My copy of this recipe came out of an old, long-forgotten church cookbook and is still on a faded-to-yellow scrap of paper in my dads handwriting…from when I was eleven! It has been requested and made dozens of time, has a perfected cream cheese frosting, and an easy candied pecan that adds a toasty, sweet crunch.

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Guinness Dark Chocolate Cupcakes with Irish Cream Cream Cheese Frosting

Inspired by the Irish, this should NOT be a once a year treat! Insanely moist, these Guinness infused Dark-Chocolate Cupcakes are topped with a luscious Irish Cream, Cream Cheese Frosting.

This incredibly easy, but totally scratch-made cake is inspired by one of my favorites. Hershey’s used to have a Black Magic Cake on the back of their can and it’s been proven over and over as a classic for a reason. The buttermilk and Guinness make this cake so moist and so full of flavor, that this cake is guaranteed to be the one everyone wants the recipe for. Don’t get me wrong, the Irish Cream in the cream cheese frosting, kind of like in my Irish Cream Bread Pudding, doesn’t hurt either!

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