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.
First world problems: our liquor cabinet is overflowing at the moment, and we have an impending move looming on the horizon. My job is to purge all unnecessary items from the house -- and while the hubs would argue that whiskey is COMPLETELY necessary and should be...
This recipe and post is hosted by Razzoo’s. They invited several of the media to dinner and shared their secrets for recipes. All opinions are my own. It’s 5:30 am and my alarm goes off. I shove off the puppy who is hovering right in my face so I can find my way to...
Yay! Get your wallets and your stretchy pants ready, those cute Girl Scouts will be rolling wagons through your neighborhood for the next couple of months. You know you want to buy from all of those budding sales stars, so here’s your excuse to stock up. This recipe...
I don't know about you, but pumpkin pie and Thanksgiving go hand in hand for me. I'm almost superstitious about it, on par with having to eat black-eyed peas and pork on New Year's Day. I feel like the holidays are off to a terrible start if my pumpkin pie isn't on...
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...
The Dallas icepocolypse forced us to stay inside for an entire 3 day weekend - and then some. One of my besties joked that it took an act of God to finally get me to stay home and unpack. That's no joke. She knows me too well. But unpack we did, and my kitchen and all...
Since it didn’t come up on your Facebook friend reminders, you probably didn’t know that it was Johnny Appleseed’s birthday last week. Thankfully I have a 5 year old who keeps me apprised of these momentous occasions, and their requisite school celebrations where I...
"Eat More Ice Cream." She wanted us all to wear bright colors. Not the usual black at her funeral. That would be too sad and un-Cindy like. Cindy wanted us to celebrate LIFE, not sorrow about our loss. Cindy threw herself a huge (and I mean huge) party in her final...
The Princess Cupcake was a hold-out for tball this season. She was not down with the idea of playing in the Texas heat claiming that the “sun would get in her eyes” even with her cap on. Inspired by NY Yankee Andy Pettitte, at the last possible second she shunned her...
