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Easy Banana Whoopie Pies with Nutella Filling Looking for something fun and delicious to do with those brown, overripe bananas? Banana bread with chocolate chips was always my go to, until I discovered these Easy Banana Whoopie Pies with Nutella Filling. The process is super easy and produces a moist, cakey cookie …
Zesty Lemon Ricotta Cookies (Nordstrom Copycat) Who doesn’t love a treat from a fancy department store? I came across Nordstrom lemon ricotta cookies when doing research and discovered they were similar to my own recipe. With a zesty lemon flavor, light cake-like texture, and a tangy lemon glaze, these cookies …
Easy French Summer Recipe: Salade Niçoise with Tuna Salade Nicoise with Tuna is a classic French salad and the perfect summer dish: light, versatile, and full of flavor. Best of all, it doesn’t involve turning on the oven or any significant cooking time on a …
Easy Peanut Butter Mousse Pie with Chocolate Ganache Peanut butter mousse pie with chocolate ganache is a simple but delicious dessert that you can pull together in no time. With a crushed Oreo cookie crust, a light and fluffy peanut butter mousse filling, and a …
Easy One Pan Caprese Chicken Easy 30 Minute One Pan Caprese Chicken is the perfect easy dinner recipe. Is it accessible enough for a beginner? This is a great recipe for beginners. There are very few ingredients and no special techniques. Is it quick enough to make on busy …
Restaurant Quality Shrimp Scampi at Home Seafood is my favorite food. I’m not sure I have ever eaten a seafood dish I didn’t like. As a kid, I would eat some fairly terrible seafood TV dinner on Friday night and I could not wait! In …
St. Patrick’s Day or Any Day: Chocolate Whoopie Pies I’m starting to feel guilty posting so many dessert recipes but I have really been churning out some great things that I want to share. These chocolate whoopie pies with Baileys buttercream were something I threw …
Dreaming of Lemon Olive Oil Ricotta Cake I think about cake a lot. Not necessarily eating it. Baking it. I love to think up new styles and flavors and imagine what works well together. The other night I was in bed stress watching a DVRed …
Grandma’s Irish Soda Bread? Nope. I wish I could say this Irish soda bread recipe was handed down to me from my grandmothers, but they didn’t cook. Only one of my two grandmothers was Irish and that one really never cooked anything. I think she …
An Old-Fashioned Treat: Stamped Spice Cookies Ever since I was a little girl, I have been trying to transform my life into the setting of a 19th century novel. It is not surprising then, that I enjoy baking “old-fashioned” treats and desserts suitable for a …
