This homemade Bakery Style Buttery Almond Filled Pastry Braid is easy to make and makes a delicious breakfast treat. Buttery Almond Braid I love breakfast pastries, especially if they are made with almonds. I am forever searching for a pastry that tastes like my childhood favorites, bear claws. This buttery almond braid comes pretty close…
This banana cake with whipped cream cheese frosting is moist and delicious. It’s easy to make and looks like it came from your favorite bakery. Banana Cake with Whipped Cream Cheese Frosting Move over banana bread, make way for a moist, delicious homemade banana cake with whipped cream cheese frosting. This banana cake is easy…
Good morning! I hope that you had a great weekend and enjoyed some Spring like weather. We had a little bit of Spring like weather, and the crocus are popping from the ground but for the most part it is still feeling cold, rainy and bleak to me. Easter and Mother’s Day are fast approaching…
Good morning! Happy Pi Day! No not pie, pi which is celebrated on 3/14 every year with this year being extra special because today is 3/14/15 which are the first five digits of Pi. Banana Cream Pie Pi is the symbol used in geometry to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to…
Good morning! How are you and how are your Christmas preparations coming along? I do not want to alarms you but Christmas is a mere 7 days away! Can you believe it? It seems like we wait all year and then it just sneaks up on us! Have you been wrapping presents and baking cookies…
Good morning! Just ten more days until Christmas, honestly, I am like a kid bursting with excitement. My brother, sisters, parents, husbands, boyfriends, nieces and nephew will be celebrating together along with 6 dogs and 1 cat. I am sure that at times it will be a little crazy but I know we are going…
Good morning! Whew, I am tired and the holidays have not even started yet. I returned late last night from a fabulous weekend in Knoxville, TN where my husband and I visited with friends and attended the University of Tennessee versus the University of Missouri(my husbands alma mater) football game. I have never been to…
This moist and delicious Pumpkin Carrot Cake combines two of the best cakes cakes into one. Filled with Fall spices and topped with cream cheese frosting it is perfect for Thanksgiving.  Pumpkin and carrot cake are two of the best cakes in my opinion. In fact it is hard to chose between the two to pick…
Raspberry Filled White Almond Cake Frosted with Whipped Vanilla Bean Butter Cream is easy and delicious to make. This recipe starts with a box mix! This past week I made, if I do say so myself, the most scrumptious cake to celebrate my husbands birthday. Believe it or not, it was not chocolate or carrot…
Good morning! I hope that you are having a fabulous week so far. I am having a great week but I have a big weekend planned so I am counting the days until Friday. Typically, I do not eat breakfast but on a cool day I feel like I need something to get me going….
If you have follow me for a bit than you know I love cookbooks and I love to bake. Recently I was sent a copy of Teeny’s Tour of Pie: Mastering the Art of Pie in 67 Recipes written by Teeny Lamothe, owner of Teeny Pies in Washington, D.C., to review and to also to…
Good morning! How was your 4th of July weekend? Mine was FABULOUS! My husband had been out of town for work for the entire week and it was so nice to have him at home, not to mention an extra set of hands to handle the growing pack of pups we have amassed. We went…
