Made this for the hub's birthday yesterday -- super good!


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Mike loves clementines (or 'tines, as we call them), and I was going to take him a bushel last time I went to Raleigh, but I opted to make a big cheesecake with them instead ( Read more... )

Anyone ever heard of Milnot Cheesecake? I hadn't either. It was apparently all the rage back in my Great Grandma Thelma's day, however. It was a cool, lightly lemony dream of a dessert. The no-bake mousse-textured "cheesecake" on a graham cracker crust was served chilled straight from the fridge ( Read more... )

I just posted a round-up of the top 11 recipes of 2011 on Willow Bird Baking and I wanted to share them here. You all have been so supportive of all my bloggage and I really cannot thank you enough!

Below the cut you'll find the Top-11 links and one recipe that I'm reposting: the #1 favorite recipe of the year!


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There are no words for how delicious this dessert is. Buttery toffee sauce cascades over smooshy, date-filled sticky toffee pudding on top of a creamy cheesecake. The crust is a mixture of graham cracker and gingersnap crumbs. The cake may not be the prettiest thing in the world (it's awfully brown), but it is certainly one of the best things I've ( Read more... )

Oh, dear. Make these cookies as soon as you can -- they are incredible! They're literally one of the best things I've ever made. I dreamed them up after seeing cookies stuffed with other fun things: candy, oreos, caramel. 'Tis the season for my favorite gourd, so I knew I had to stuff a cookie with some pumpkin ( Read more... )

I posted Pumpkin Spice Pull-Apart Bread with Butter Rum Glaze awhile ago and lots of folks around the interwebz have already made and loved it (side note: I LOVE it when that happens! Totally makes my day). But several of them said something to the effect of, "It took 3 hours to make and about 20 minutes to devour." Those time-consuming recipes ( Read more... )

These cake pops are no ordinary cake pops. They're amaretto pound cake pops, and apart from that, they're stuffed with a creamy strawberry cheesecake center and mounted on pretzel sticks! To say that they're delicious is an understatement ( Read more... )

I'm not a coffee drinker, but I lovvvve coffee in desserts, especially when combined with chocolate. It creates this rich depth of flavor that I'm wild about ( Read more... )

It's my birth month, and as such, birthdays have been on my mind lately. Today I wrote about perhaps the most boring kid birthday ever -- the cross stitching party my mom convinced me my friends would love. I think I'd enjoy a cross stitching party now, but it turns out it's not that big of a hit with 5th graders. Live and learn ( Read more... )