Danish Braid

Its daring bakers time again!
This time it was another new challenge… Danish Braid. The guidelines this time around required that we use the basic dough recipe and do the apple filling and/or a filling of our choice, but the filling had to be made from scratch. I made the apple filling for one large danish braids [...]

Cheesecake Pops

Its that time again… daring bakers time that is! This time it was cute little cheesecake bites! When I first saw what this month’s challenge , I was thrilled because I’ve never made anything like this and hubby LOVES cheesecake. The downside of this month’s challenge… I don’t particularly care for cheesecake much. Although, maybe [...]

Pineapple Salad

I’m very excited to be able to participate in this year’s wonderful blogging event, A Taste of Yellow hosted by winos and foodies. A Taste of Yellow is a blogging event supporting Livestrong Day, which is on May 13th this year. Livestrong Day, an event developed by the Lance Armstrong Foundation was created to to [...]

Perfect Party Cake

Its daring bakers time again! Quite honestly, I’m not sure how I manged to complete this month’s edition of Daring Bakers. All month I’d been planning to make this cake Easter weekend (also my mom’s birthday). It was going to be the perfect way to take care of this challenge. Unfortunately hubby’s grandfather got very [...]

Chocolate Dulce de Leche Cookies

This post is long over due, but as I mentioned in my last post… life has been a little hectic! I received 2 little jars of Dulce de Leche from Blake Makes earlier this month. I had lots of ideas of what I could make… cupcakes, muffins, cake, tarts, truffles… then I decided I’d make [...]

February Daring Bakers Challenge

I unfortunately did not have time to complete this month’s challenge… Julia Child’s French Bread. I’m disappointed that I didn’t have time to complete this challenge, but between working 10-12 hour days, Valentine’s Day, babysitting three kids under the age of 2.5 for a weekend, and the birth of our neice… well I didn’t have [...]