Make these sweet Easter bunny cupcakes, and the adorable baby chick cupcakes for your spring festivities. You can bake your own cupcakes, and make your own frosting, or use store bought! I'll teach you the tricks below. There are no complicated directions or hard-to-find ingredients; ...
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15 Stunning Summer Desserts for a Crowd
Favorite party cake recipes, refreshing icebox desserts and delicious flavors of ice cream. Make one of these beautiful summer treats for your next showstopper dessert. Find the perfect ending to a meal with these fun dessert recipes. These insanely easy summer desserts for a crowd range from ...
Spice Cake With Creamy Caramel Icing
Spice cake with creamy caramel icing is light and flavorful. The cooked caramel frosting is smooth and delicious like brown sugar fudge. Take it from me you won't want to miss this combination. Spice cake with caramel! It's one of the best things in life. This two-layer, easy-to-make ...
Mini Ice Cream Pops
Mini ice cream pops are as easy as can be. If you can scoop ice cream, you can make these treats. Add sprinkles and you have a playful summer dessert for a crowd. • • • Ice cream pops that I don't have to put in a special mold? I'm in! These little bites are also totally customizable. Use ...
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 ...
Whoopie Pies for Halloween
Whoopie Pies for Halloween are the most delicious chocolate cake cookies with silky, buttery filling, decorated with holiday sprinkles. I love cake. Cake and meringue buttercream. My reason for making whoopie pies is that I can then hold that piece of delicious cake right in my hand! No fork needed. ...
Floating Ghost Cupcakes • Tara Teaspoon
Floating ghost cupcakes will make all the ghouls come out to the Halloween party. These cute fondant treats are easy to make, even the little witches and storm troopers can help. These darling ghost cupcakes have a storied history, but we'll get to that later! First off I just have to talk ...
101 Ways To Love Bacon
Oh, bacon! How do I love thee? Let me count the ways! No really, let's count them. Just when you thought you couldn't love bacon any more than you already do, here are 101 ways to enjoy this delicious meaty treat. HINT: It's not just for breakfast anymore. Bacon is meat candy. Admit it, ...
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 ...
Super Easy Super Bowl Party Ideas
I'll be honest, when it comes to the Super Bowl, I'm really in it for three things: The food, the people, did I mention the food? It's probably not surprising that I love setting the scene for the perfect gathering where everyone can eat, talk, laugh, eat some more, and, oh yeah, watch the big game ...
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 some ...
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 main ...
Peanut Butter Bites
Peanut Butter Bites candy are like peanut butter caramel chews. Easy to make candy that is great to make with the kids, and fun for gift giving. I grew up making candy with my mom, especially around Christmas. But there would be times we'd make taffy or honey candy to pull at other times of the ...
Ginger Spice Button Cookies
These little button cookies are like mini bites of gingerbread bedazzled with jewels. The crystal sugar gives them a sweet little crunch. Tiny ginger cookies like these are perfect for gifting in a little bag. If you don't eat them all before they get out the door, that is. Happy ...
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 ...
Vanilla Bean Salted Caramels + Video
Vanilla Salted Caramels are a classic candy, perfect for gift giving, and sneaking from the cupboard! Salted caramel started as a food trend. Something fancy chefs devised in restaurant kitchens. It made its way into fine chocolate shops, magazines, cookbooks, regular awesome restaurants and now, ...
Chocolate Skeleton Cookies • With Video!
Chocolate skeleton cookies are nothing but good old bones! Sweet icing bones and dark chocolate cookies, that is. Nothing says Halloween like a Gingerbread Man. Oh…wait…using a gingerbread man cookie cutter—that’s where I was going with this. Change that little shape into a creepy skeleton and ...
Crazy For Candy Cupcakes
These are impressive bombs. You put them on the table and BOOM! Everyone is instantly impressed. With piles of delicious buttercream, and loads of Halloween candy, you can't go wrong. Make them ahead too! This meringue buttercream holds really well. *One little hint: if you're not a huge frosting ...
Marshmallow Ghost Cookies
Marshmallow Ghost Cookies put all kinds of deliciousness together. Chocolate cookies with a sugary, fluffy topping! Sometimes, after eating a lot of Halloween candy, I think I look like this. Chubby and sugary. I might look like that. But it was worth it if I got to eat a few of these ...