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!
Have you carved your pumpkin yet? As Halloween approaches, pumpkin bread is in order. This bread tips closer to the side of dessert with the wonderful addition of mini chocolate chips. Cinnamon and cloves round out the spiciness and the pumpkin keeps this bread really …
I decided to stray from my “pumpkin fest” for this highly additive snack. It is hard to beat homemade caramel corn and this is easy to make. The peanut butter comes in the form of Reece’s Pieces, which are a fabulous Halloween colored candy and …
I don’t think there is anything better than pumpkin and chocolate. Think of a dense fudgey brownie with a piece of pumpkin pie. Mix it up and you have these wonderful pumpkin-chocolate brownies. You start with a rich, chocolatey brownie batter. Next is the pumpkin …
PUMPKIN! It is finally time to make anything and everything pumpkin. I’m not the only one jumping on the orange bandwagon. There are pumpkin lattes at Starbucks (although my new favorite latte is the graham one), there were more than 6 aisles of pumpkin goodies …