• Triple Chip Pudding Cookies

    Triple Chip Pudding Cookies

    I’m a fan huge fan of chocolate chip cookies, even store bought ones although they certainly aren’t my first choice. So how do you improve on a basic chocolate chip cookie? Include 3 kinds of chocolate chips and make them thick and chewy by adding pudding mix. Well, I just found a recipe that knew […]


  • Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bars

    Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bars

    This may surprise you but I find making cookies tricky. Not putting them together but baking them. Bake too long by only a little, and they’re over done. Bake too short, by not very much, and they are under done. Bar cookies, on the other hand, are much easier to decide when they’re done. And […]


  • Blackberry Muffins

    Blackberry Muffins

    This is my third blackberry recipe attempting to make the most out of some wild blackberries I was given by a friend. I know this is going to sound like I’m exaggerating, but these WILD blackberries are as sweet as candy, no tartness whatsoever. I’m convinced, and you will be too, great ingredients, makes for […]


  • Lemon Blackberry Pound Cake

    Lemon Blackberry Pound Cake

    Generally speaking, I really like quick bread recipes. They’re quick, don’t require an electric mixer and often only require one mixing bowl. You can’t beat that for simplicity. Combine those characteristics with your favorite ingredients like lemons and blackberries and you know you have a winner. Give this recipe a try and see if you […]


  • Cinnamon Sugar Zucchini Coffee Cake

    Cinnamon Sugar Zucchini Coffee Cake

    Anyone who knows me, also knows how much I like coffee cakes and are my absolute favorite pastry, bar none. I also enjoy baking things with “not your usual” ingredients. So, when I saw this recipe for a zucchini coffee cake, I knew right away it was my next baking project. How did it turn […]