Time for some chocolate love! 1. Chocolate Chip Cake – our favorite, throw-it-all-in-the-Bundt-pan, all-occasion cake. 2. Oreo Truffles – three ingredients and allergy-friendly for our crew. 3. Fudge Pie (you can even create a slice with pastels – includes a chalk art tutorial!) 4. Microwave Fudge – another three-ingredient, simple favorite. 5. Nana’s Famous Chocolate Pound Cake (with that fudge icing) Feel free to browse
10 Easter and Spring Desserts
Sharing my top ten favorites for this time of year. Easter and spring desserts for a bridal luncheon or baby shower, Mother’s Day. There’s so much to celebrate… Aunt Kathy’s Lime Cake – for every spring celebration! Grandma’s Glazed Strawberries and Bananas – so easy! Nana’s Coconut Cake – an Easter tradition. Sunflower Peeps Cake – fun for spring or summer. Frozen Fruit Salad and
Reindeer Mix a.k.a. White Christmas Snack
Always a holiday favorite is Reindeer Mix, a.k.a. White Christmas Snack. It’s an easy solution for parties, teacher or neighbor gifts or a nice little something to tuck in the mailbox for your mail carrier. It’s very simple. You might even have the ingredients on hand. Just melt the white chocolate bark and pour it over Crispix, marshmallows, pretzels and M&Ms. The M&Ms make it
Fast Food for Slow Sundays: Nana’s Famous Chocolate Pound Cake
Growing up, this cake was the one at family gatherings. Doesn’t that speak the loudest about a dessert? It’s a pound cake. A chocolate pound cake. The icing makes it a showcase (and it’s what us children wanted to sneak a bite of as we ran by – because it tastes just like fudge!) : Nana’s Famous Chocolate Pound Cake Cake: 2 sticks butter 1/2
Chocolate SunButter Rice Krispy Treats
A while back, there was a little bakery that sold peanut butter Rice Krispy treats. Now just that is a treat itself. Even at $1 a piece. The topper was – those krispy treats were topped with chocolate! So, the children and I set out to recreate this specialty with our favorite SunButter. We simply followed the directions in the recipe on the SunButter site,
SunButter No Bake Cookie Bites
Another peanut butter recipe from Southern Plate turned SunButter recipe for Hodgepodge! No bake with yummy ingredients. And yet another afternoon of cooking fun. Mixing and stirring! A great way to get oatmeal in these children. Anything with SunButter! Click over to Southern Plate for the recipe: Peanut Butter No Bake Cookie Bites and just wholesale replace that peanut butter with allergy-friendly SunButter. For all
Fudge Pie: A Pastels Tutorial Plus Recipe
Are you ready to whip up a fudge pie? Well, guess what? You can either stir up a pie on your paper or use our fudge pie recipe to bake one in your oven – or both! How about we start with a fudge pie pastels tutorial. Nana has fudge pie art lessons to go with this recipe: You ARE an ARTiST Clubhouse membership with
Frozen SunButter® Pie
SunButter®, whipped cream, jelly, milk, a box of instant vanilla pudding and graham cracker pie crust. Let the frozen whipped cream thaw well enough to spread a cup full in the bottom of a graham cracker pie crust. Put that in the freezer for about 10 minutes. Meanwhile you can mix up your 1/2 cup of SunButter… …with your milk, the small box of vanilla