Being voted the best chocolate chip cookies is no joke. These are award-winning cookies many times over, and I'll tell you how to make them from scratch. Better than your favorite bakery, better than your friend's, and better than mom's chocolate chip cookies! These are truly the best in the world. ...
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Swiss Meringue Buttercream
Swiss meringue buttercream is a silky icing that uses egg whites, sugar and butter. It's not too sweet, and perfect for piping and frosting cakes and cupcakes. Here, you'll learn how to make this silky frosting, heating egg whites and sugar in a double boiler, then adding butter to the meringue. ...
Easy Halloween Chocolate Lollipops
Easy Halloween chocolate lollipops get sprinkled and garnished with sparkly, shiny and crunchy orange candy for a festive party treat and favor. I like treats. I love the ones that are simple to make, and even better to eat. These easy Halloween chocolate lollipops win for sure. You ...
Fluffy Vanilla Frosting • Tara Teaspoon
Fluffy Vanilla Frosting is a basic confectioners' sugar frosting that works for spreading, piping, decorating and delicious eating! • • • Fluffy Vanilla Frosting is just that, a light, simple frosting for cupcakes, cookies and cakes. Like the sweet stuff of childhood. This post may include ...
Pecan Crispies Cookies • Tara Teaspoon
Pecan Crispies are the perfect cookie jar treat. Buttery and crunchy with plenty of nuts–ready to be dunked in milk or coffee. You may be flooded with nostalgia when you make these buttery, nutty Pecan Crispies. Perfect for eating with hot drinks or dunking in ice cold milk, they came from ...
The Ultimate Golden Globes Party Guide
Throw a Golden Globes viewing party in style. The best nibbles, a red carpet entrance and printable ballots are easy to pull together. You say "Golden Globes" and all I hear is "party." I love any excuse to get people together, have fun, and of course, eat! I've pulled together ...
Fudgy Squash Brownies - Hide Your Veggies!
Fudgy Squash Brownies have it all. They are chocolatey and rich, packed with fiber, have a smooth texture, and are a classic chocolate dessert. You may be asking yourself, “What in the world are Squash Brownies?!” Well the name has everything to do with their main ingredient, squash! Yes, the ...
Pistachio Chocolate Bark (Palettes)
Chocolate bark gets a festive French makeover! If you wander around Paris and make your way through every chocolate shop you see (which is what every food-obsessed gal does, right?), you'll run across beautiful trays of little palettes. What you're looking at is essentially chocolate bark, made the ...
Candy Corn Twist Cupcakes
I know people who like candy corn. I try not to judge them, and just love them for who they are--but it's hard. For those of you in my camp who don't love the wonderfully iconic Halloween candy, but, like me, survive off of several sugar fixes a day, I created a solution in the form of a ...
