Everyone loves festive 4th of July Desserts and Patriotic Fruit Pizza tops the list of our favorite way to celebrate the 4th! We love to gather with family and friends, eat, play, and end the day with a few of our favorite 4th of July desserts. This Patriotic Fruit Pizza is easy to put together… Read More
Desserts: Dessert bars
Perfected Peanut Butter Bars
Perfected Peanut Butter Bars are not your mother’s Peanut Butter Bar! Thick, chewy, creamy and the perfect blend of peanut butter and chocolate in a homemade bar cookie. Chocolate Peanut butter winning combos: Peanut butter, and chocolate. It’s a perfect marriage. They are better together, than alone. They compliment each other in most situations: ice… Read More
Sheet Pan Sour Cream Sugar Cookies
Sheet Pan Sour Cream Sugar Cookies are a busy baker’s dream! All of the goodness of a traditional sugar cookie in one big sheet pan. One bowl, one pan, and you’re in business. Throw on a little buttercream frosting and you can feed a crowd everyone’s favorite holiday cookie without the rolling, cutting out, and… Read More
Coconut Lime Bars
Every Christmas cookie lineup should include a good bar cookie. Coconut Lime Bars have a buttery crust, a thick layer of nutty-coconut goodness and are topped with a fresh lime glaze that sets this dessert apart from every other bar cookie you have ever eaten! My friend Laurie, who has contributed several recipes on this… Read More
Raspberry Coconut Bars
I’ve always loved the combination of raspberry and coconut. Raspberry and coconut on top of a buttery crust? Perfection. These Raspberry Coconut Bars will be the darling of your Christmas Cookie tray. They’ll add that bit of color- white and red to your tray that you’ll love. This cookie is chewy and sweet and a… Read More
Homemade Starbucks Cranberry Bliss Bars
Homemade Starbucks Cranberry Bliss Bars are the most heavenly blend of dried cranberries, orange, and white chocolate topped with a bit of cream cheese frosting! You can make this “better than copycat” version at home for your family and friends for the holidays. I first tried a Cranberry Bliss Bar at a cookie exchange last… Read More
Christmas Shortbread Toffee Cookies
It’s time. Christmas is a little over two weeks away. Time to get your baking game on. What’s better than toffee? How about a cookie that looks like toffee. If you’re a shortbread fan, you’re going to love this cookie. Instead of individual cookies, it’s made in a jelly rolls pan and then the pieces… Read More
Billion Dollar Bars aka Homemade Candy Bars
Do you Pinterest? Apparently everyone is Pinning these days. Last week, Bonnie Oscarson was named the new General Young Women President of the LDS (Mormon) church. The lead line of a news story I read about Sister Oscarson stated that she is on Pinterest. Of course, people weighed in on her activity online. Some of… Read More
ABK’s Butterscotch Hello Dolly! Bars
These bars have been around forever. We baked a variation of these and served them at our wedding reception back in 1982. I know, 1982? Yes, we had ovens back then. I believe these were one of Grant’s Grandmother’s favorites, so we added it to our dessert menu for the reception. We had all kinds… Read More
Peanut Butter Scotchies
How to make Mother sad: Mother sends package to Mexico to son on mission, in November, with Christmas gifts inside. December 25th. No package received. Mother sends package to son mid-December with home made treats, hoping it will get there close to Christmas/New Year. No package received. Mother sends package end of December for missionary… Read More
Chocolate Chip Cookie ‘n Oreo Brownie Bars
Remember last month when I joined the Secret Recipe Club?? So much fun. This month my assignment was to cook something from Katie’s blog: Betcha Can’t Eat Just One. Katie lives on the West Coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. She is a mom of three who teaches preschool and also runs a daycare… Read More
Laurie’s Lemon Bars
These two have been best friends for a long time. We are neighbors, belong to the same church andthey went to the same schools- elementary through high school.Now the one on the left is getting married. We love Lauren. She and Brookie have spent hours sitting at my kitchen counter laughing, talking and eating.Lauren’s parents… Read More
Cook’s Illustrated Chewy Brownies
Yesterday was the one month mark for Stephen’s mission. Hooray! He is doing well. Loves it so far. Want to see a pic? Elders: Lamb, Foster, Nieman, and Blair on a snowy day in Provo, headed to Puebla in April… I made these brownies the other day and mailed them off to Stephen. They are… Read More
Pan Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies
If you have known me for any length of time, you have probably had one of these. I originally posted Pan Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies back in September of ’08, when I first started blogging. I love sugar cookies. What makes a great sugar cookie? Soft, sweet, tender, great frosting. The giveaway. Do you have it?… Read More
Dorie Greenspan’s Chewy Chunky Blondies
While buying chocolate chips one day, I came across Bittersweet Chocolate Chips. I held onto them until I found a recipe made just for bittersweet chips. Saw this recipe on several blogs. It was a recipe assigned to a group that cooks/blogs their way through Dorie Greenspan’s “Baking From My Home to Yours”. Most Blondies… Read More
Oreo Brownies
Remember the Cranberry Salsa I made back in December? Loved that recipe. It came from this cute book- I purchased “Bliss” last month, and found this recipe for Oreo Brownies. Since Oreos are my fave store bought cookie, and I love brownies, I had to give this recipe a try. They were quick to put… Read More
Butterscotch Cashew Bars
Brookie, my adventurous 19 year old, who spent the summer in West Yellowstone working, left last night for China. She will volunteer for four months as an English student teacher. “Are you worried about her?” everyone asks. Not worried. Just hopeful and prayerful she will have a great experience and be safe! A year ago,… Read More
Peanut Butter Mississippi Mud Bars
Remember when Mrs. Fields stores started popping up in malls in the early 80’s? I was intrigued by her success, and in love with her cookies. Limiting myself to a cookie a day was difficult, since I was a pregnant and worked a block from the Crossroads Mall in Salt Lake at the time. Waddling… Read More
Nordy Bars from Nordstrom Cafe
This is the famous Nordy Bar recipe served at the Nordstrom Cafe back in the 80’s. The bars are a rich mix of chocolate, butterscotch, marshmallow and nuts. Simple and so delicious! Many moons ago, when we were living in Portland, and Grant was going to law school, I worked at PacifiCorp. We… Read More