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Dessert Recipes

Caramel Apple Salad

Caramel Apple Salad

The title of this recipe kind of creeps me out. I don’t like salads. Okay, actually I like pasta salad. And I like this salad. I am not sure if you can classify this sweet, delicious treat a salad, but for all intents and purposes, …

OMG Brownies

OMG Brownies

Do you ever just have an urge to bake? Just to dig through your cupboards and find SOMETHING you can pop in the oven? I had that urge recently. And what resulted were these gooey, dark chocolate brownies. Oh yeah, and they had a caramel …

Baileys Hazelnut Dark Chocolate Fudge

Baileys Hazelnut Dark Chocolate Fudge

I went through a peanut butter fudge phase when I was in college. I looked online for a “simple fudge recipe” and found one that I probably made every other week during my senior year. While I was looking through the recipes, I came across …

Old Cookbooks + Apple Krunch

Old Cookbooks + Apple Krunch

When I was younger and still lived at home I tried having a “Sunday Baking Day”. I probably only actually baked 2 Sundays each month, but that’s pretty good if you ask me. I was really lucky that my mom liked cooking. We had a …

Guest Post: Caitlin’s Snickerdoodle Bread

Guest Post: Caitlin’s Snickerdoodle Bread

Caitlin is one of my fellow food-obsessed friends at the office and she’s been known to bring in some treats that make even a Monday morning tolerable. This Snickerdoodle Bread is probably my FAVORITE and I am so glad she shared this recipe! Be sure …