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Watercolor Sugar Cookies for Your Galentines

These Watercolor Sugar Cookies are dedicated to my sassy, beautiful, and bright sisters, my true galentines: Rose, Anna, and Barb. Don’t get grossed out!

Tic Tac Love for Valentine’s Day

Tic Tac Love, that’s what I’ve got for you this Valentine’s Day. I was looking for both an easy way to celebrate the boys’

Double Chocolate Naked Cake

Double the trouble with this showstopper! Today, I am unveiling this chocolate naked cake extraordinaire and also many more romantic, fantastic, and beautiful desserts from some of my favorite friend bloggers around the country.

Get Naked For Valentine’s Day

Get naked this Valentines Day! Ahem, not that, silly, I’m talking about a naked cake where you keep your cake exposed in between layers of sinfully delicious cream cheese frosting.

Smooches & Hugs This V-Day with our Easy XO Cupcakes

A kiss, a hug – it’s in the air! These XO cupcakes carry their little fondant love letters so easily, and they are so simple to make.

Christmas

Gingerbread Rice Krispies

Yes. You read the title right. Gingerbread. Rice Krispies. The ingredients alone are almost too much: chopped gingersnaps, white chocolate chips, molasses, and mini marshmallows plus a few magical dashes of spices like ginger and cloves.

Christmas

Santa Hat Strawberries

Ho Ho Ho! Calling the Santa Squad…These easy Santa Hat Strawberry treats will have your little ones promising to be on the “Nice”

Graffiti-n-Gingerbread Dudes

We’ve had our fun with gingerbread guys and gals, but it’s time to get down and dirty with these rad, graffitied-out gingerbread dudes.

Hand Pies with Gratitude (and Caramel!)

When I was a kid, I used to love a good candied apple on a stick. The adult version that I’ve come up with is much simpler where I dip an apple slice into a cup of melted caramel.

Thanksgiving Rice Krispie Pie with Pumpkin

Happy Thanksgiving!! These Rice Krispies with Pumpkin Spice are such a huge hit on the holiday table, and no better place to stuff your face than the Thanksgiving table.

Meet The Queen of Pumpkin Cakes

Let’s talk about the regal pumpkin’s DNA. The big question is: is it a fruit or a vegetable? It’s both! Botanically a fruit, but culinary wise, a vegetable.

Pumpkin Chocolate Mini Bundts with Silky Chai Sauce

These Pumpkin Chocolate Bundts remind me of my older sisters. All three of ’em. We’re an incredibly tight-knit bunch, despite the fact we live on opposite corners of California (with one outlier in Arizona).

Thanksgiving

Gratitude & Turkeys: Cupcakes Two Ways

Same yummy cupcake, two different toppings. And darn cute ones if I do say so myself. Half pumpkin and half chocolate, the cupcake itself is so freakin’