Apple Gingerbread Upside Down Cake! If this doesn’t say Merry Christmas I don’t know what would! It tastes like Christmas morning smells. Warm, spicy, sweet, and perfectly homemade. A homemade ginger cake is layered atop fresh apple slices and a homemade caramel sauce. The result is a sticky sweet topping, a fluffy gingerbread cake, and…
Dessert recipes
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Pumpkin Cinnamon Duffins!
It’s a donut…It’s a muffin…It’s a Duffin! ย This delicious mix of muffins and donuts are a cinch to make and will make your whole family smile! I don’t say this about every recipe (okay…I say this about every recipe). ย But you really need to try these!ย These little things melt in your mouth. ย At…
Pumpkin Cheese Cake Bars
It’s fall which means only one thing to me…Pumpkin in everrrryyyyttthhhinggggg! ย ย First up is Pumpkin Cheese Cake Bars. ย Cheesecake with frosting on it….how can you go wrong? I brought a few of these Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars to work and my pal Dana went bonkers…no really, I thought she was going to chokeย sucking the…
Lemony Coconut Snack Cake
This snack cake is bursting with lemon and coconut! ย Sometimes you just don’t need a full size cake, but you NEED cake never the less! ย Did you know that you can bake most any muffin recipe in a 8 x 8 ย pan and turn it into a snack cake? ย Yup, it’s true! ย I…
Light Peach Ice Cream
Fresh and Light Peach Ice Cream – is there anything better than homemade ice cream on a hot summer day? This recipe is from an old Cooking Light magazine I had hanging around. ย It uses whole milk and half and half instead of heavy cream. ย No precooking makes it a breeze! There is a…
Double Chocolate Almond Biscotti
We love biscotti here and this is a fabulous way to get your chocolate cookie on! ย If you have never made Biscotti before you are in for a treat. ย Easier than traditional cookies and not overly sweet…my kinda of cookie! Biscotti – so impressive but easier to make than traditional cookies – there are tons…
Pecan Pie Snack Cake
When a big cake is just too much cake this Pecan Pie Snack Cake is the perfect size! Packed full of pecans, it has a great flavor and so easy to make! 5 Ingredients, one bowl and you have yourself a tasty little snack cake. ย Perfect for a small family or three back to…
Pineapple Bars with Coconut Drizzle
ย Pineapple Bars with Coconut Drizzle! ย A super easy to make recipe that has tons of flavor! I woke up early on a Saturday morning….like way too early! ย Of course Mr. Laughing Spatula was already up and out, ย putting gas in all the cars. ย You see, Mr. LS takes very good care of his girls. ย Every…
Old Fashioned Yellow Cake with Easy Chocolate Frosting
Who doesn’t remember Old Fashioned Yellow Cake with Chocolate Frosting! – Fresh easy ingredients baked up into a delicious and tender cake! ย Flour, eggs, sugar…just the basics. ย This cake is as easy as a box mix but tastes like Grandma made it! ย Nothing says I love you like cake! Scratch cake that is with fluffy…
French Toast Muffins
It’s a tasty tri-fecta! ย It’s a muffin, french toast and bread pudding all in one! ย It’s like French Toast and Bread Pudding had a baby…a really yummy baby! It’s a tasty tri-fecta! ย It’s a muffin, french toast and bread pudding all in one! ย It’s like French Toast and Bread Pudding had a baby…a really yummy…
Coconut Sheet Cake
This Coconut Sheet Cake has a tender white cake with fluffy coconut frosting! ย This reminds you of the stuff of your childhood! Holy Sheet Cake this is good!ย It’s an old time recipe thatย tastes like the cake that your Grandma used to make (not my Grandma,ย YOURย Grandma, ย mine couldn’t cook worth squat). It has 5…
Pumpkin Sheet Cake with Maple Frosting
Pumpkin Sheet Cake! ย This super delicious cake is great for a crowd and is super easy to make. ย Don’t wait until the holidays to make this fabulous cake! I love that sheet cakes are so popular again.ย Who has time to bake up a couple layers and decorate?ย I can almostย guarentee ย that you will…
Fresh and Light Apple Crisp
Apple Crisp!ย Fall mustย be in the air. I really hadn’t planned on blogging this, I mean why?ย Apple Crisp has been published a million times…but it is a dessert staple aroundย my houseย and I really do love it and it was just sitting there, waiting for the attention it deserves. A few questions you…
Caramel Banana Upside Down Bread
This Caramel Banana Upside Down Bread is so pretty but so easy to make! It’s aย bread…no it’s a cake!ย It taste like cake to me…like really, really good cake but it’s cooked in a loaf pan so it’s bread?ย I really don’t know and don’t care…I just love it! Caramel Banana Upside Down Bread Ingredients…
Raspberry Cordial
Nothing says summertime like fresh fruit…likeย fresh raspberries….like fresh raspberryย flavored booze!ย Like Whoa! ย I believe it qualifies as a serving of fruit as well…bonus point, sold!…cha-ching! (And yes, I’ve been sampling…what kinda cook doesn’t taste her own wares?) This takes about 2 minutes to throw together butย needs to sit forย about 1 week and can go as…















