Inside my recipe box
I make treats for my kids every Tuesday. The other four school days, I’m a stickler for healthy snacks. On Tuesdays, however a mid-day dessert is waiting when they come home from school. They always walk in the door asking, “What is Treat Tuesday?” and I always keep them guessing by challenging them to identify the treat by smell. The only downside of this tradition is I hear about it if I have a particularly busy Tuesday and don’t get around to making the treat. That rarely happens because I can’t stand the groaning! (OK, and I’m a sucker for their appreciation for TT’s, even into their teen years.) When you see a dessert recipe with a TT next to it, you know it was one of our Tuesday Treats!
It’s Valentine’s Week! I’m not sure if that is a thing but there are reasons to be excited… Are you past the age where it is appropriate to make a paper bag mailbox for your Valentines? There is chocolate! Not expecting a garden of roses …
So it might actually be Thursday, but I baked (and ate!) this delicious cake on Tuesday so that counts right?! A tribute to how crazy my day was, I hardly snapped a picture, but I still wanted to share the outcome because it was so, …
You read that correctly, Prune Cake. Remember the wonderful dried fruit basket I told you I received over Christmas? Well, this was the last fruit left and I had actually found a recipe that I have been wanting to try from The Pioneer Woman Cooks, …
The title of these cookies is spot on. If you love chocolate and you love your cookie a little on the gooey side, this is the recipe you need to make now. I love chocolate and I am particularly partial to dark, bittersweet chocolate and …