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Classic {One Bowl} Banana Bread Recipe
Easy, Tried-and-True, Banana Bread Recipe This simple, one-bowl banana bread recipe is the definition of comfort food for me. It's slightly sweet (not cloying), supremely moist and tender, and flavored with the simplicity of butter and bananas. The best part? Making the batter is as simple as throwing all the ingredients in a bowl and turning on the mixer.I grew up with my mom ...
Simple Homemade Whole Wheat Bread Recipe
Honey Whole Wheat Sandwich Bread Just like my favorite homemade white bread recipe, two loaves of this simple homemade whole wheat bread will be ready to eat in about 3 hours, with only about 20-minutes of hands-on effort. Thanks to a touch of olive oil and milk, this bread has an exceptionally soft and tender crumb - not heavy, dry, or overly dense like some whole wheat loaves can ...
Simple Homemade White Bread Recipe
Have-it-on-hand-at-all-times Homemade Sandwich Bread. Guess what? You could be eating a thick slice of buttery homemade bread in about 3 hours. Even better, only about 20 minutes of that time is hands-on. This homemade white bread recipe has been a staple in my house for over 20 years because it's quick, simple, fail-proof, and deliciously satisfying like only homemade bread can ...
Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Buttercream & Caramel Rum Sauce
Carrot Cake Layer Cake, Bundt Cake, or Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Buttercream and Salted Caramel Rum Sauce This one tested and perfected Carrot Cake Recipe is all you need to bake up a delicious Carrot Cake Layer Cake, Bundt Cake, or Cupcakes - all slathered with Cream Cheese Buttercream & Salted Caramel Rum Sauce.Years (and years) ago, my husband and I were at a restaurant where I ...
Skillet Cookie with Chocolate Chips and Oatmeal
Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Skillet Cookie Skillet cookies are meant to be eaten warm from the oven, ice cream melting on top, set in the center of the table so everyone can dig in. No plates, no slicing, no serving. Just pass out forks and dive on in.Skillet cookies are meant to be shared. It's kinda their entire point. They are the kind of cookie for which words like plates and serving sizes ...
Chocolate Blackout Cake
The Chocolate Cake to Top All Chocolate Cakes If you are the kind of person who believes there is no such thing as too much chocolate, Chocolate Blackout Cake has got your number. Three sinfully fudgy Devil's Food Cakes are layered with rich Chocolate Pastry Cream and then covered with a thick layer of Chocolate Ganache.Hey there chocolate lover. This cake is total seduction.The ...
Caramel Rum Sauce
Decadent Rum Spiked Caramel Sauce This caramel rum sauce would make shoe leather taste like a gourmet treat. It really is that good.Honestly, I generally make a double batch of this caramel sauce and keep it in the jar in the refrigerator, ready to pour over anything that strikes my fancy at any time. Like Banana Crumb Cake, or Best Ever Carrot Cake with Caramel Rum Sauce, for ...
Black Forest Cake
German Black Forest Gateau Every bite of this Black Forest Cake is loaded with creamy chocolate and juicy cherries. Three deep, dark, rich and chocolaty Devil's Food cakes are doused with cherry liquor, layered with sweetened vanilla whipped cream and tart Morello cherries, and topped with dark chocolate ganache.If you're a chocolate and cherry lover, get ready to swoon.This is a ...
German Chocolate Cake
Rich German Chocolate Cake with Caramel, Pecan, and Coconut Filling and Milk Chocolate Ganache This German Chocolate Cake is all about rich chocolate fudge cake, warm caramel filling with toasted pecans and sweet coconut, and milk chocolate ganache.Fun fact. German Chocolate cake is not actually German. The cake is a totally American invention. Here's the story.In the 1850's an ...
Devil’s Food Cake
Perfect Dark Chocolate Devil's Food Cake This sinfully dark chocolate Devil's Food Cake is so obscenely rich and fudgy that it elevates chocolate cake to a whole new level of decadence.Being bad never felt so good.This is the only chocolate cake recipe you'll ever need.It's so rich and fudgy that it blurs the line between chocolate cake and brownies. It produces layers of ...
Cream Cheese Buttercream
Perfect Cream Cheese Buttercream Cream Cheese Buttercream is a gorgeous creamy blend of cream cheese and butter, sweetened with confectioners sugar, and flavored with vanilla and a touch of sour cream. Cream Cheese Buttercream is one of those magical confections that is as delicious as it is simple and easy to make. You basically put all the ingredients into a bowl, whip them ...
Pecan Sand Tarts
Three Delicious Ways to Make Pecan Sand Tarts {Pecan Shortbread Cookies} Pecan Sand Tarts are 6-ingredient, not too sweet, buttery, 2-bite cookies that are blissfully addicting. As in, I-can't-stop-eating-these-but-I-don't-care-because-every-single-bite-is-worth-it kind of addicting. Here are three delicious ways to make these simple little cookies.Oh, lawdy. I have eaten way to many of ...
Coconut Maple Panna Cotta {No Refined Sugar}
No-Sugar Coconut Maple Panna Cotta with Chocolate Almond Date Clusters. Panna Cotta is an Italian dessert that's simply some combination of milk and cream thickened with gelatin. The name means "cooked cream", and that's pretty much exactly what it is. As is the case with many simple things, the magic of Panna Cotta is in its minimalism. With only a handful of ingredients you can create a ...
Cheesy Sloppy Joe Hand Pies {No Sugar}
Cheesy Sloppy Joe Hand Pies. Saucy, spicy, sweet, and salty Sloppy Joe filling and sharp cheddar cheese are tucked inside pockets of tender sour cream pastry that’s so buttery and flaky you might be tempted to compare it to a croissant.Sloppy Joe sandwiches are one of those things most of us associate with being a kid. We either ate them as kids or make them for our kids, but they ...
10 Favorite Christmas Cookie Recipes
'Tis the Season to Bake Cookies. My Grandma called cookies "the original comfort food", and she meant it. There were always cookies at her house - especially at Christmas time, when she would bake countless dozens, pack them into little tins, and distribute them to practically everyone she knew. If she wasn't going to see you until weeks after Christmas, she'd just put your tin in the freezer and ...
Frosted Brown Butter Citrus Shortbread Cookies
Brown Butter Citrus Shortbread Cookies frosted with White and Dark Chocolate Fondants. These are, without a doubt, the BEST tasting decorated cut-out cookies I've ever eaten. Brown butter citrus shortbread is delicious all on it's own - buttery, not overly sweet, and laced with the subtle flavors of orange, lemon, and lime. Dark and white chocolate fondants are easy to work with, gorgeously ...