Are you ready to start Holiday Baking? I always like to make our traditional Sugar Cookies, Crackle Cookies and Peanut Blossoms, but it is also fun to try new recipes. You can use stamps to create these beautiful cookies. These cookies are sweetened with brown…
The holiday season is here! What a special time! Time to celebrate with family and friends – and of course – eat! An important part of the holiday meals is to continue to make traditional foods that we have every year! Thanksgiving meal at our…
Pumpkin Cranberry Muffins are a perfect treat during the holiday season! The delicate pumpkin flavor is enhanced by the tart, juicy cranberries and rich warm fall spices.
Whisk your dry ingredients in a bowl – the ground cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice not only make the muffins taste delicious – they smell delicious as your muffins are baking. I used the food processor to coarsely chop the cranberries.
Toss the cranberries in the flour mixture to coat, and whisk up the wet ingredients. Combine the two mixtures and gently stir just until blended.
Use an ice cream scoop, or spoon, to fill the muffin cups…looking good already!
Mix up the streusel and sprinkle over the muffins. Lightly press the streusel into the muffins. I topped the muffins with a few extra chopped pecans and coarse sugar (of course).
When you open your oven door to take these out, the wonderful aroma of pumpkin and spices will fill your kitchen!
These will brighten up your breakfast or brunch! Or your mid-afternoon snack! No butter needed for these muffins!
Moist, colorful pumpkin muffins filled with cranberries – and then topped with crunchy cinnamon pecan streusel are a wonderful choice to add to your list of muffins to make during the holiday season! Enjoy!
For the recipe and directions, click on the link below:
https://letsdishrecipes.com/pumpkin-cranberry-streusel-muffins/
This is my favorite cake of all time! I usually only make it on Thanksgiving, Christmas and when my daughter requests it for her birthday. Why??? Because I would eat the whole thing (if no one was watching). The tartness of the cranberries in the…
When the boys decided that they wanted doughnuts for breakfast last weekend, I was ready! I had printed a recipe for Baked Apple Cider Doughnuts from Sally’s Baking Addiction website and wanted to try them. They did not disappoint! Don’t you just want to try…
I love a good brownie! Really I love almost anything that combines sugar and chocolate! This weekend it was so beautiful out! I cleaned out the flower beds and then planted about 200 bulbs – so I HAD to reward myself! And what better way than by making a pan of chocolate brownies? This recipe is named “Seriously Fudgy Homemade Brownies” and they certainly lived up to that name.
Do you love the crackly top on brownies? Sally from Sally’s Baking Blogs says that the secret is in the sugar. In this recipe, you melt the butter and 2 ounces of chopped chocolate, then quickly whisk in the sugar while it’s still warm. Whisking the sugar into warm butter helps the sugar migrate to the top of the batter as the brownies bake thus creating that signature shiny and crackly top we all love! Perfection!
Don’t these just look so fudgy and rich? They have cocoa powder, a chopped up semi-sweet chocolate bar and chocolate chips! Triple chocolate treat! So delicious!
Tower of chocolate brownies!!!! What a wonderful reward to give to yourself after a hard day….or after a great day! Happy Fall!
For the recipe, directions and more photos, click on the link below:
https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/seriously-fudgy-homemade-brownies/
I know strawberries are really not in season right now, but my husband brought home about 2 quarts of strawberries this weekend – and there is only so much strawberry shortcake you can eat! So for our Sunday breakfast, I did search for strawberry muffins…
Soup is such a good comfort food! Using your Instant Pot, you can make hearty, delicious soups in about half the time as cooking them on the stove. This was a new recipe for me -it is loaded with sweet butternut squash – but it…
Who doesn’t love a Snickerdoodle? Even chocolate lovers enjoy a crispy cinnamon and sugar Snickerdoodle! That makes them the perfect gift to share – especially in the fall!
Bake a batch of Snickerdoodles and then grab some fall bags and tags and then you will have the perfect gift from your kitchen! Plus you get the added bonus of having all those wonderful nostalgic aromas in your kitchen!
For the recipe and additional gift ideas, click on the link below:
These gift bags are from the Fancy Flours online store.
Autumn is the time for warm, comforting foods and fried apples are the ultimate autumn comfort food! This is another recipe I loved growing up and still love! These are sweet, simple and delicious! Choose your favorite tart apple to make fried apples. I prefer…
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