A party without cake is really just a meeting. – Julia Child
And really, who likes meetings? Let’s keep it sweet by loading up on cookie recipes, birthday cakes and baked goods for special occasions including Girl Scout Cookies, No-Bake Chocolate Bourbon Balls (yum!) and amazing Southern tea cakes.
Are you looking for a fast and easy Easter cupcake idea? All you need to make these cute chicks are the basics: a little food coloring, canned frosting, yellow cupcakes, coconut, some edible eyeballs, and M&M's. It's a quick one, that you can do on the fly at...
I’d never tried PBFit before and was offered a free sample to test. All opinions are my own, but the recipe is yours to share.Y’all, these are so good that The Beast barked at them for a solid 2 minutes because he wanted a bite. Or 12. Or the whole pan.It’s a good...
Super simple candy corn snack mix that is quintessentially fall! Only two ingredients! Just blend together, set on the counter and watch it disappear.
This post is hosted by Jackson Morgan Southern Cream Liqueur. All opinions are my own.I’m trying to eat more fruit, because, duh, it’s healthy for you. Experts say you should have two servings of fruit per day – which weirdly, is hard for me to remember to do. My plan...
I love baking with booze. Even better, how about a no-bake boozy ball that’s perfect for the holidays? Actually, it’s perfect for whenever really. I created this recipe recently for a cookie exchange and I liked them so much, I made them again for a client party. You...
My mother-in-law, God rest her soul, must've been horrified when she figured out her son was in love with a Yankee. She tried her best to Southernize me -- with marginal success. After 24 years as a Southern resident, I think I'm fully entrenched, (Big Daddy would...
In our house, Mardi Gras is a holiday. It has a dedicated storage bin in the attic solely dedicated to it alone. We’ve even been known to decorate a tree for it. We may be too old and lazy to drag ourselves down to St Charles Street to claim optimal...
I seriously don’t understand why we have so much Halloween candy left over. I am beginning to think Big Daddy hid it from the trick-or-treaters. Just like I hid it from him in the garage before Halloween. 😉 Now we have mounds of it. See? We can’t have all that candy...
UPDATE: Holy cow - This recipe won a blue ribbon at the State Fair of Texas! One of my absolute favorite desserts is Bananas Foster. I could just take a bath in it I love it so much. That’s funny, because I’m only mildly interested in bananas by themselves, but I do...
8:24 a.m. Yank covers off Princess Cupcake. Departure time in 16 minutes. 8:26 a.m. Have forceably inserted soccer socks and shorts onto Princess Cupcake while she is still horizontal in bed with eyes firmly closed. 8:27 a.m. Princess Cupcake sits upright with big...
In my day job, I’m a marketing consultant helping companies make their mark. Sometimes that means I get to do fun things like have t-shirts made for my client’s 10th Anniversary Crawfish Boil. Aren't they cute? Because it is not in my nature to arrive at a party...
My roommate in grad school used to call me the Cookie Monster so… I might know a thing or two about addictive cookies. I caution you. What I’m about to share with you is dangerous. Dangerously good tasting and dangerously bad for your waistline. Dangerous in that if...
In Kindergarten at our school, there's something universally dreaded among the parents and it's called "book cooking." Maybe "dreaded" isn't the right word. It is definitely a day that we non-teachers are stretching out of our comfort zone. Each family is given a book...
It's Mardi Gras season, Cher. Get your beads on because it's time for bacchanalia, red solo cups full of hurricanes, and a big fat King Cake. Let's NOT forget the King Cake. I consider myself somewhat of an expert in King Cake. Having two graduate degrees from LSU in...
