Category Archives: Fruit
The White Lime Experience
This month’s Mystery Box Ingredient was white chocolate. “Well,” I thought, “surely I can make something with that.” And then I thought “stop calling yourself Shirley.” (Fun fact – I have a bowling shirt with the name Shirley embroidered on it. Just ‘cuz.) One of my favorite combos is white chocolate and lime because the […]
Banana “Ice Cream”
So guess what I had for breakfast this morning… Banana “Ice Cream.” Yeah. That’s right. It’s a recipe that was a few days in the making because I’d frozen the bananas a few days ago, and have been threatening to make this ever since. I got home from playing tennis too late last night to […]
Orange Cupcakesicles
This idea came about thanks to Sweetest Kitchen’s Mystery Box Cupcake Challenge where July’s ingredient was Tea. I got so excited thinking of all the fun tea flavors I could use to come up with something new, wondrous, and magical, when it struck me that I wanted to create a flavor combo as an homage […]
Jello Cookies
I was looking for a kid-friendly recipe for a barbecue around the 4th, and considered doing red, white, and blue layered Jello when I came across this recipe. They seemed simple enough to make, and I thought it was a pretty cool idea to use the Jello for the flavoring in the cookies. (You could […]
Key Lime Bars
A coworker was having a Summer Solstice party so I racked my brain for a summery treat to bring. Everyone loves chocolate, of course, but I wanted to do something different. I’d heard tell of tequila being at this party and I instantly thought of margaritas, which led me to think “Lime!” I’d found this recipe […]
Applesauce Spice Bars
My mom said these are the best things I have ever made, but then again she’s only been here one weekend in the past few months so she missed the chocolate salty balls and the sour cream muffins. Not that she’s incorrect, these were pretty insane. As my coworker said “they’re heaven with caramel on […]
Mini Angel Food Cakes
I had a dinner party a little bit ago, and the menu was packed with awesome southern-themed food. I made BBQ chicken, southwestern stuffed peppers, mac and cheese, biscuits, and roasted asparagus. To top that off, I figured I would need a light dessert, and my sister recommended angel food cake. It was a good […]
Lemon Glazed Cookies
My company had a beach volleyball day and bbq recently, and I wanted to bring something light and summery. I had just made the Perfectly Chocolate Cake, so I was going for something like the opposite of that. These lemon-glazed cookies came to mind. The last time I made them was for the 4th of […]
Apricot Rugelach
For the second installment of the 2010 Tax Season Cookie Rollout, I decided to make what I recently discovered was my dad’s favorite cookie – apricot rugelach. I had no idea. Seriously, the man loves chocolate so I would have said Oreos. (They’re coming, Dad.) Turns out my grandma used to make these kind, and […]
Top of the mornin’, blueberry
Blueberry muffins. Is there anything better? Part dessert, part breakfast food, and chock full of fresh berries (if you’re doing it right!). I’ve made these for my coworkers before, during blueberry season. How could I not? I can’t eat all those berries by myself, though I try. Sometimes I switch it up with chocolate chips, […]
