Perfect Mashed Potatoes. These potatoes come out perfectly creamy and buttery! These are sure to become your family favorite! How to Make Perfect Mashed Potatoes Mashed potatoes are a staple side dish in our home. They come together easily and pair so well with so many things! They can be served alongside some turkey or…
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Holiday Essentials: Food and Drink
Holidays can be a busy time! So to save a little bit of your precious time this season I have put together a list of the foods and drinks that are perfect for gracing the holiday table! All of these holiday recipes are sure to please! I am an official ambassador for Ibotta who provided…
Homemade Cranberry Sauce
Homemade Cranberry Sauce. This simple cranberry sauce recipe is bursting with fresh flavor. Sweetened and infused with flavor by using apple cider and orange juice this updated classic recipe is sure to be a new family favorite! How to make Cranberry sauce? Making a homemade cranberry sauce is fairy simple and easy. Fresh cranberries are…
Butter Pecan Shortbread Cookies
Butter Pecan Shortbread Cookies. These tender and buttery shortbread cookies are loaded up with toffee bits and pecans. These easy to make cookies will soon be a family favorite! These butter pecan shortbread cookies are loaded up with buttery goodness. Bits of sweet toffee. And crunchy bits of chopped pecans. These pecan cookies are so…
Leftover Ham Bone Soup
Leftover Ham Bone Soup! Save that ham bone to make a flavorful broth which is the base of this hearty ham and potato soup! Leftover Ham Bone Soup. Made with the actual leftover ham bone! We love picking up a ham for Christmas. And one of my favorite things about getting the ham, is having…
Christmas Mimosas
Christmas Mimosas! Celebrate Christmas in the morning with this mimosa that has a combination of orange juice and pomegranate juice! Christmas Mimosas. Have you ever seen a prettier cocktail? Possibly this Champagne Margarita, or this Bellini Margarita. Although, I think this Christmas Mimosa beats them out in the looks department. The taste is pretty spot…
Mint Brownie Bites
Mint Brownie Bites. Small bite sized brownies with a creamy mint filling. Topped with melted chocolate. Tastes like a Junior Mint! Mint brownie bites. Made with my all time favorite homemade brownie recipe. The one used in these French Silk Brownies, and the Strawberry Cheesecake Brownies. These brownies are made into a mini brownies, filled…
Sparkling White Sangria
Sparkling White Sangria. This festive white wine sangria drink is super easy to put together and definitely makes a statement. Loaded with cranberries, pears, and oranges this drink is perfect for celebrating the Holidays! Sparkling white sangria is possibly the prettiest drink I have ever had. Next to the Sparking Apple Cider Sangria. They are…
Brown Butter Toffee & Pretzel Chocolate Chip Cookies
These brown butter chocolate chip cookies are loaded with toffee bits and pretzels creating the perfect blend of sweet and salty to satisfy any craving! The dessert recipes continue with these Brown Butter Toffee & Pretzel Chocolate Chip Cookies. That is a mouthful isn’t it? But I wanted to make sure you know just how…
Gingerbread Men Cookies with White Fudge Icing
Gingerbread Men Cookies with White Fudge Icing. These little gingerbread men cookies are soft and crisp, perfectly sweet and spiced with cinnamon and ginger. The finishing touch is the white fudge icing on the back! A homemade take on a market favorite! Every year I wait for the magical day that a certain market gets…
Eggnog Waffles with Cinnamon Syrup
Light and fluffy waffles made with eggnog and drizzled with a homemade cinnamon syrup. Can you feel Christmas in the air yet? It’s basically surrounding us. Which is why these Eggnog Waffles with Cinnamon Syrup is an absolute MUST! In case you’re wondering..yes, these waffles are loaded up with actual eggnog! The trick to making…
Butter Rum Sheet Cake
Butter Rum Sheet Cake. This light and fluffy homemade yellow cake has rum baked in and is drenched in a butter rum sauce. Even though this cake is sized down it still has full sized flavor! It’s the start of the Christmas baking season. So I’m bringing you this Butter Rum Sheet Cake. I guess…
Eggnog Latte
Eggnog Latte! Celebrate Christmas with this Eggnog latte made right at home. A super simple coffee drink that uses real eggnog instead of creamer. We are knee deep in the holiday season now. Right? Thanksgiving is in the rearview mirror. Most likely you’ve been going over your Christmas shopping list. Maybe you’re already done?? Props…
Homemade Peppermint Patties
Homemade Peppermint Patties! Never buy these again! So easy to make, only a handful of ingredients needed! Perfectly cool peppermint center encased in decadent dark chocolate. One of my favorite things about the holidays is the abundance of peppermint. And one of my favorite peppermint treats is Peppermint Patties. So it was only natural…
Pear & Pomegranate Salad with Orange Poppyseed Vinaigrette
Pear & Pomegranate Salad with Orange Poppyseed Vinaigrette. This salad is loaded up with juicy pear, tart pomegranate, pecans, feta, all on a bed of fresh baby spinach and drizzled with a citrus orange poppyseed vinaigrette. This beautiful salad will be the highlight of any meal! The colors are perfect for any Holiday spread too! …
Brown Sugar Bourbon Cookie Butter
Brown Sugar Bourbon Cookie Butter is made with shortbread cookies, vanilla bean, brown sugar and of course..bourbon!! Perfect for snacking on, using in recipes that call for cookie butter, giving as a gift, or just eating with a spoon! Brown Sugar Bourbon Cookie Butter? You heard that right! I may have a thing for using…
Boozy Pecan Praline Bars
Easy to make Boozy Pecan Praline Bars are the perfect sweet treat! Soft, crumbly shortbread with a chewy praline topping! Yikes, so Christmas is one day closer! Does Christmas feel like a deadline to you too? I feel like there’s so many things that I want to get done by that day. Things that I…
Eggnog Cookie Cups
Eggnog Cookie Cups! This sweet, creamy frosting is made with REAL Eggnog! Perfect quick and easy Christmas dessert! Oh my goodness. I cannot believe that it’s already almost Christmas! Which means I should probably consider wrapping presents soon. My laundry room is stacked floor to ceiling with Amazon boxes. I have too many kids to…
Eggnog Snickerdoodles with Rum Glaze
These super soft eggnog snickerdoodle cookies are made with REAL eggnog, loaded with extra nutmeg and rum extract, plus topped with a creamy, decadent eggnog rum glaze. The Christmas Cookie extravaganza continues. Today I have for you these uber soft, super tasty eggnog snickerdoodles. Loaded with real eggnog, rum extract, nutmeg, and cinnamon-y goodness….
Soft Molasses Cookies with Orange Sugar and Ginger Cream Cheese Frosting
A soft, chewy, spicy molasses cookie coated with orange sugar and turned into cookie sandwiches with a sweet and spicy ginger cream cheese frosting. These cookies. Molasses cookies to be exact. Oh. My. These are possibly the most perfect cookies ever made. By me anyway. Soft and chewy molasses cookies. A very popular cookie in…
Peppermint White Hot Chocolate
Peppermint White Hot Chocolate. This warm, comforting drink is EASY to make and perfect for Christmas time! I just want to cuddle up with a mug of this! Peppermint and chocolate were just meant to go together. Especially when it’s white chocolate. And it’s hot. And it’s in drink form. And topped with whipped cream(you…
100+ Favorite Christmas Cookies
The ultimate collection of Christmas Cookies! Your one stop shop for this season! Christmas is the season for cookies! So I have a collection of 100+ Christmas Cookies here just for you! I told you I’ve been having a cookie party at my house lately. Whether you’re baking cookies for yourself or for a Christmas…
Glazed Cranberry Orange Bread
Super moist Cranberry Orange Bread drizzled with an orange zest glaze, bursting with tart cranberries. Made using fresh orange juice and greek yogurt! This bread is always a hit!! This Glazed Cranberry Orange Bread is almost like a pound cake. It’s so tender and moist thanks to the combination of cooking with oil and Greek…
Warm Vanilla Tres Leches Drink
A warm inviting vanilla tres leches drink made by combining three milks, topped with whipped cream and a cherry! A perfect warm drink to enjoy on a cold day that doesn’t include coffee. Cool weather makes me want all things warm and comforting. Which is where this Warm Vanilla Tres Leches drink comes in. …