Baking

  • Baking,  Blogger Meet-Up,  Cooking,  Food,  Recipes

    Sunday Brunch

    Sunday I hosted a brunch at my apartment with some lovely other bloggers: Melissa, Emily & Alicia. My sister also joined, too. It was tons of fun and we had a lot of delicious food! I made mini yogurt cups with filo dough crust that I received in my swag bag at Healthy Living Summit ages ago. I finally got around to making something with them and they came out great and they were SUPER easy to make. Mini Berries & Cream Yogurt Cups Ingredients 1 container of organic low-fat yogurt (I used Wallaby berries & cream) 12 mini filo shells fresh fruit for topping Instructions 1. Mix yogurt so…

  • Baking,  Holidays

    Favorite Christmas Songs

    Hope everyone is almost ready for the holidays! Mom and I just finished baking christmas cookies and now I’m watching the Grinch. I figured I would share with you a few of my favorite Christmas songs! Last Christmas, covered by Jimmy Eat World Wonderful Christmas Time by Paul McCartney Christmas (Baby Please Come Home), cover by Death Cab for Cutie Carol of the Bells by Trans Siberian Orchestra AND because it’s not Christmas without breaking out the *NSYNC Christmas album… Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays by *NSYNC —- Speaking of Holidays, I signed up for participate in the Home for Holidays Virtual 10K! I ran a total of 8.0 miles…

  • Baking

    Office Holiday Bake Off

    Yesterday was our office Holiday Party! It was held as a luncheon at the Pump Station this year! The food was quite delicious (lots of veggies!), potatos, salad and a vegetarian pasta primavera. But after the luncheon was my favorite part of the party. The bake off! This is the first year we’ve officially had a bake off at our holiday party, and I was excited so I made two desserts to enter into the contest. Chocolate Heath Bar Truffles (adapted from Bon Appetit Magazine’s Butterfinger Truffles, I just switched out butterfingers for crushed heath bar) and a Brownie Tarte with Nutella Ganache. Both were ridiculously easy to make! I…

  • Baking,  Food,  Product Reviews

    What I’m Thankful For

    I decided to take a vacation day today so I could relax and get some baking and cooking done before Thanksgiving! One of my goodies is a batch of pumpkin blondies . 🙂 They were super easy to make! (But the recipe called them chocolate brownies. I disagree since they aren’t very chocolately and they are not chocolate in color, so I’m calling them blondies!) Also, as part of the Foodbuzz Tastemaker Program, I was sent some coupons for free Duncan Hines products for review. (As always, the product was free but the opinions are my own.) I couldn’t say no to that. I happened to pick up the chocolate…

  • Baking,  Cooking,  Food,  Recipes

    Fall Recipe Roundup

    I don’t have that many recipes…I’m usually terrible at coming up with them and most of the time they are smoothies. But anyway, I do have some fall recipes that I love and I’m working on creating more dishes for my small recipe page! Here are my favorite fall recipes so far! Pumpkin Pie Steel-Cut Oats Mom’s Vegetarian Chili Apple Cranberry Bread Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting (my favorite) Happy Fall!