English Toffee Cake Brownies just sounds very posh, doesn’t it? Let me tell you, they are fantastic. And simple. So incredibly simple to make. So you made traditional brownies and now you are thinking to yourself, “what...
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Easy, Simple and Fantastic Chocolate Cake Recipe
This is perhaps the easiest chocolate cake recipe you can make. You mix a few ingredients, pour into a casserole dish and bake. It's left in the baking dish to maintain moistness and a soft, airy texture. The simple icing...
Grandma’s Devil’s Food Cake Recipe
This devil's food cake recipe is everything angel food cake is not. Full of chocolate, fat and loads of flavor. It's so sinful to eat you'll feel the need to pray for forgiveness. It's really one of the most amazing...
Easy and Flavorful Cut Out Sugar Cookies
Easy and flavorful cut out sugar cookies don't seem to be synonymous today. Often they taste like raw flour or are a bland flat cardboard disk covered in sugary decorations. Ever get a love decorated sugar cookies served to...
Classic Chocolate Lovers Swiss Roll
This Classic Chocolate Lovers Swiss Roll looks elegant, extravagant and decadent. It tastes even better than it looks. Yet it's so easy to make! Whereas swiss roll cakes looks very intimidating at first, don't worry. If you...
Kitchenaid Artisan Mini to the Rescue
A few weeks ago, I posted about how I received my dream mixer as a gift and quickly found out I couldn't use it because of physical limitations. I have to admit, it was a very low day for me. I cried quite a bit and felt...
Easy Baked Potato Recipe
Crispy crust baked potato with a pillowy soft center is what this gal dreams of at night. In fact, it's what I had for dinner tonight and there is something satisfying about hearing that knife crunch as it pierces the jacket...
How to Shape Dough for a Bread Loaf
Learning how to shape dough for a bread loaf can be daunting. I've had a lot of sadly shaped loaves over the years. Mostly because I never learned how to properly shape loaves. It's not a difficult task once you've practiced...
Strawberry Cake Recipe
This strawberry cake recipe is wonderful if you love strawberries. There is something horrible about artificial strawberry cakes. Between the taste of red dye and the attempt to mimic one of the best fruits on earth, it's...
Your New Favorite Baked Macaroni and Cheese Recipe
Everyone has a favorite baked macaroni and cheese. This one in particular is divine. Rich, full of flavor and gone in a blink of an eye. People have asked me for years for this recipe and are often surprised at its...
Quick and Easy Cheese Sauce for the Beginner
If you want to learn to make a quick and easy cheese sauce, then this is the tutorial for you. If you noticed, we first learned how to make a roux, then country gravy, and finally white sauce. The next step would to be...
Easy Chocolate Spiced Swiss Roll
A chocolate spiced swiss roll is a pleasurable cake to both look at and eat. You feel naughty but will be nice eating this cake that is lighter in fat and calories. I always love when cakes taste like they have 10,000...