I love sheet cake! My mom has made the most amazing chocolate Texas sheet cake since I was a little girl licking the batter bowl (hmmm, I guess I still do that). Recently I heard about a peanut butter version of this childhood favorite. At first I thought, “sounds great!” Then I had an idea I just knew would taste great. Chocolate sheet cake with peanut butter icing! Chocolate peanut butter is one of my favorite flavor combinations so I decided to try it.
I am a salty sweet kind of girl, I love chocolate with pretzels and salty peanuts on my ice cream. So it isn’t a big surprise I’m in love with salted caramel! I like the sauce to be just drizzled over ice cream, or a piece of chocolate cake, or over cheesecake. I like it in cookies, or yummy fall coffee drinks, or in frosting on cupcakes. Yes, I love the combination so much I just had to learn to make salted caramel sauce and then used it in my cream cheese butter cream icing! I took some chocolate cupcakes with salted caramel icing to a pot luck and they were a hit 🙂 I even got the sweet compliment of being called the “cupcake queen.”
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With a surplus of apples recently, My family has been enjoying many comfort foods such as apple pie. Wanting to save some for later pies I made some apple pie filling in my crock pot and canned it. Oh, and I made one to enjoy now as well with the filling.
Now that fall is here I have been craving some yummy soup! One of my very favorites is broccoli cheese. Only made better by being served inside a fresh bread bowl with chunks of bread from the inside sitting around the plate to dip in my cheesy soup.
My homemade oreos are my little sister’s favorite thing I bake. She recently started a new job, is moving in her first house and many exciting new things are happening for her! I wanted to congratulate her and encourage her in all of her new endeavors. So I spent my Saturday night baking her favorite treat 🙂 homemade oreo cookies. Continue reading “Homemade Oreos”
This week I was a happy recipient of lots of fresh organic apples! I love baking with apples so I’ve been enjoying them and making old and new recipes. Yesterday I made a fresh batch of apple butter in the crockpot all day and canned it when I got home last night from church. I was encouraged to share the recipe on my blog, so here it is.
Happy National Banana Lover’s Day! Today the kids and I are celebrating with these fun banana pops 🙂
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So I have been making homemade fondant for five years now. I love using it and the things I can do with it on cakes. I have heard of chocolate fondant and thought, “yum”, but just the idea of trying to make it scared me for some reason. It sounded too gourmet maybe, or why add difficulty to something I’m pretty good at? Continue reading “Chocolate Fondant?! Yes, Please!”
My Crazy Blessed Life! 