Category: Sweet Treats
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Cranberry Macadamia Oatmeal Cookies with White Chocolate
We used to have a hard and fast rule in the house about when the Christmas decorations went up and when the Christmas playlists started playing and all the rest :: no Christmas until the weekend after Thanksgiving. We kept everything tucked away in storage tubs and didn’t go hunting for a Christmas tree and […]
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Baked Cider Donuts
Fall has finally, finally arrived!! We’ve had a string of days where the temperatures have been hovering between the 50s and 60s and I’m pretty sure I caught sight of some leaves turning in the woods next to the house. It’s not the riot of color we’ve been hoping for, thanks to all the storms […]
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Strawberry Cupcakes with Lemon Buttercream Icing
I’ve been slacking. I keep promising myself I’m going to buckle down and learn how to properly frost cakes and cupcakes. I keep vowing I will learn to pipe icing into lovely rosettes and swirls, garnished with sprinkles and flowers and…you know the routine. Check out my Pinterest boards. They’re full of baking and decorating how-to’s […]
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Rustic Strawberry Shortcake
Craving the combination of fresh and ripe summer fruit, homemade whipped cream, and a sweet and savory biscuit to pile it on? Come on over – I’ve got the perfect mixture of spring and summer dessert for you right here in this Rustic Strawberry Shortcake! There’s something magical about the combination of fresh and ripe […]
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Red, White, + Blue Chocolate Layer Cake
I never was much of a baker. I could whip together a mean chocolate chip cookie when the mood struck and I do like an occasional sweet, but until lately, I never did a lot of baking. If I did bake, and didn’t send what I made with Scott to work, it would just sit […]
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Cookies + Cream Milkshake
When my doc talked to me about getting more calcium into my diet, this probably isn’t what he had in mind. However, I made this particular milkshake with my own homemade vanilla ice cream, which I’ll share soon, fresh milk, and…Oreos. Okay, two out of three good ingredients aren’t bad. I have a love/hate relationship […]
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Warm Berry Buckle + Ice Cream
Ages ago, before I brought this blog into existence, I toyed around with starting a cooking blog under the title “Bright Red Notebook.” Why the title? Because just about all of my recipes in progress live in the bright red Moleskine notebook I almost always have in my purse or backpack. It’s one of my […]