Cocoa Bombs are very popular this winter! Many bakeries and specialty food stores offered a holiday version to give as gifts or to enjoy! Did you know you can make your own? We still have a few months of wintery weather here – and hot…
Don’t these look perfect to have to snack on during the holidays? Cute little brownie bites with milk chocolate morsels, swirled peppermint squares and mini marshmallows mixed in the batter and then used for the topping too! The recipe makes 24 brownie bites, baked in…
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/
Do you have leftover Halloween candy? Did you know you can use that candy to make fun and delicious cookies? Grab your favorite combinations of your Halloween candy – you might have to snack on one or two as you sort through all of it!…
Fall baking is the best! And edible Halloween decorations make creating party cupcakes so easy! These chocolate cupcakes are so flavorful because they use less flour and more cocoa. No mixer required for these. The Wilton black cat icing decorations are the perfect size to…
Halloween will be here soon! What kind of festive witchy treats do you plan to make? Time to grab some Halloween decorations and make some brightly colored frosting.
We have been making these Chocolate Party Cupcakes for years – a birthday and special occasion tradition at our house. Cathy Oesterling shared this recipe with me when we were working for University Extension together. It is so fun to use favorite traditional recipes for family gatherings. It creates memories and makes them extra special.
Easy to make! These cupcakes are made from a chocolate cake mix, with a cream cheese and chocolate chip filling added. So each bite of cupcake has a bit of chocolate, a bit of cream cheese and some tasty chocolate chips…YUM!
Pipe your favorite frosting, or the buttercream frosting in the recipe below, on top of the cupcakes once they are cool. Tint the frosting with bright colors, like lime green and neon orange. Top with Halloween decorations and fall colored sprinkles.
These little witches hats are from the Fancy Flours website. They offer so many creative baking decorations and cooking supplies for cakes, cookies and candy. So many ideas for your festive holiday baking, no matter what the season.
Have fun making spooky and festive Halloween treats!
Click on the link below for the recipes for the cupcake and frosting:
You can make your own witches hats. Here is one example that uses Oreo Thins, Hershey Kisses and Candy Corn. Click on the link below for directions.
Happy Halloween!!!!
Halloween is almost here! We had the “kids” here this weekend so I decided to make some fun spider treats. These Black Widow Peanut Butter Bars from the Half-Baked Harvest blog were so delectable and just so darn cute! So easy and so fun to…
When I was a little girl, I really thought that my Grandma Davitt, invented Scotcheroo cookies. I have the original recipe card that I wrote out and the title is “Grandma Davitt’s Rice Krispies Cookies.” Only when I was older did I find out that…
We are almost halfway through September! Time just goes by so quickly! Halloween – and even Christmas-decorations are on display at the stores. I decided to decorate some t-shirts for Berkley with fall and Halloween themes. All of these heat-transfer vinyl designs are available on Etsy and they were cut out on my Cricut machine.
This one is my favorite! It is the Pumpkin Crane, from the Crazy Crafty Lady Company.
Every little kid needs a spider shirt for Halloween. This pattern is from the Pretty Vectors Lab. (The black and white splotches on the shirt are just part of the Halloween frame, they are not part of the pattern.)
I remember when Pac-Man first came out! This Halloween Pumpkin Game design is from The Silly Beans shop.
I had never used the foil HTV before, I think the solid black vinyl might have looked better, but it was a fun experiment. Scarlett Rose Cuts offers this design on Etsy.
Ahhh….my boy holding his boy. How sweet is that? Little Berkley is so fun and inspires me to create some cute little t-shirts.
The Halloween theme backgrounds and frames are from the PhotoRoom app. This app allows you to easily erase the background and then you can be creative with a wide range of colors, frames, backgrounds and text.
Happy Fall and Happy Halloween!
I have made many zucchini recipes over the years – but I think this one is my all-time favorite! It is like zucchini bread, banana cake and chocolate chunk cookies all combined into one amazing dessert! With zucchini being in abundant supply this time of…
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Mary Beth shares her love of family, food, DIY projects and being outdoors.
