Homemade easy Pumpkin Spice Coffee Cake is the perfect fall breakfast treat. Using a doctored cake mix, with a ribbon of gooey brown sugar and pecan swirl throughout, finished with a simple maple syrup glaze. A quick, moist and delicious fall dessert. While I am a firm believer in making things from scratch, sometimes even…
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Amazing Apple Crumb Cake
Whether you call it a Crumb Cake or a Crumble Cake, this recipe for Apple Double Crumb Cake is beckoning and unabashedly the best! Using sweet-tart apples, sprinkled with cinnamon and nutmeg, layered between a buttery cake with two layers of brown sugar oat crumb streusel! What is it about fall that drives us all…
Delicious Antipasto Pasta Salad
An Antipasto Pasta Salad loaded with hunks of cheese, pepperoni, salami, black olives, peppers, artichoke hearts and more. Dressed in a nutty and tangy simple, balsamic vinaigrette. I’m always in search of great salads that I can bring to teacher luncheons, potlucks or barbecues, or honestly, make on Sunday and nosh on it all week…
Best Easy Chile Relleno Casserole (+ Gluten Free Option)
Easy Chile Relleno Casserole is delicious vegetarian dish made with whole roasted Hatch green chiles, stuffed with Monterey Jack cheese, topped with an egg, milk batter, then baked into fluffy perfection. Easily adapted to be gluten free. Whether you are looking for a breakfast, brunch, lunch or dinner recipe, this Easy Chile Relleno Casserole fills…
Lemon Shortbread Sandwich Cookies
Lemon Sandwich Cookies are a light, buttery, slice and bake cookie with a bright lemon flavor, they are tender, not overly sweet, with a delicious sweet-tart lemon frosting sandwiched between. These might possibly be my most favorite cookie. Post and pictures updated 5.13.20 Butter Shortbread Cookies with Lemon These cookies, without a doubt, are worth…
Best Easy Banana Bread Recipe (+ High Altitude & Gluten Free Option)
I have been searching for the Best Banana Bread Recipe! This one is quite possibly the best EVER! So EASY, moist and amazingly delicious! Freezes great too! Plus simple instructions for high altitude or gluten free options. A great banana bread should be easy to bake, with simple ingredients; it must be moist, have subtle…
Best Italian Pasta Salad with Sun Dried Tomatoes
Pasta salad is my favorite and this recipe for the Best Italian Pasta Salad is tops!! Loaded with fresh veggies like, artichoke hearts, sun dried tomatoes, spinach and dressed in a bright and simple balsamic vinaigrette! It’s perfect to bring to your next picnic or potluck or make or use as meal prep, add a…
Ingredient Substitution Chart
I hate it when I am in the middle of a recipe and suddenly realize, I am out of an ingredient, argh, now to find a substitution or alternative ingredient. I hope you find this Ingredient Substitution Chart handy. Print out this free printable and put inside a cupboard or pantry for easy referencing. Please…
Easiest Coffee Cake Ever!
Easiest Coffee Cake Ever! The crumb topping is made from the batter, use any combination of flours, replace egg and liquids with your choice, you seriously cannot mess up this cake! Make egg free, dairy free and gluten free. And wouldn’t it be nice to have a slam dunk gluten free recipe; just in case…
Cinnamon Swirl Bundt Cake
Sugar and spice and everything nice? It is when you make this simple Cinnamon Swirl Bundt Cake for your family or friends. A simple, moist, coffee cake recipe – hands on on time; 15 minutes, maybe! The hardest part about this cake is waiting for it to bake. We adore coffee cakes in this house,…
Glazed Raspberry Blueberry Scones
These glazed raspberry blueberry scones with a delicious butter lemon glaze are incredibly moist, packed with flavor, perfect for brunch, garden parties, bridal and baby showers, Mother’s Day, Sunday brunch, and so much more! What are Scones? A traditional English scone is lighter, more biscuit like; typically slathered with butter, jam, curd and clotted cream…
Favorite Easter Side Dishes
Today I’m bringing you a bouquet of our family’s Favorite Easter Side Dishes. These delicious recipes are tried and true and have earned their spot as favorites on our holiday menu. BEST EASTER SIDE DISHES Easter, the Crown Jewel of Springtime So much to love about Easter time — the earth bursting forth with new…
