Lemon Pound Cake Recipe

Lemon Pound Cake was never my favorite growing up. There was just something about it that didn’t appeal to me.     But then, I reworked a favorite pound cake recipe of my family’s and now, I’m addicted to this Lemon Pound Cake. I mean addicted. The fresh burst of lemon flavor coupled with the [...]

Best Chocolate Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream Frosting Recipe

Chocolate cupcakes. You probably saw this one coming, didn’t you? I can be rather transparent. Especially since I’ve been talking about the best chocolate cake ever so much and all. But, for this recipe, you have Claire to thank.  

The Best Chocolate Cake Recipe {Ever}

The best chocolate cake recipe. Ever? There are plenty of claims for the best chocolate cake recipe. I get that. But with one bite of this chocolate cake with chocolate frosting, every single person around the table commented that this was the best chocolate cake they’d ever tasted.     So as for my house, [...]

Seared Scallops Recipe

One of my favorite dishes in the world is a plate of simple seared scallops.     Bright, buttery, delicate, and so tender, I always make sure to order them when we visit restaurants that serve fresh scallops. But you know, even then, sometimes they just don’t turn out exactly how I like them. While [...]

Simple Eggs Benedict Recipe

Eggs Benedict is absolutely without a doubt one of my most favorite breakfasts in the entire world. But sometimes, it just hasn’t been worth all the trouble to make it. Do you ever feel like that? Love something so much, but have to wake up in the mood to labor through making it for your [...]

Frosted Soft Sugar Cookie Recipe

  Today, my baby turns 11. How in the world did that happen? It just seems like yesterday we were putting his crib together and preparing for our bundle of joy to arrive, giving him his first bath in the hospital and marveling over our miracle, snuggling in the rocking chair and singing lullabies, reading [...]

Candy Bar Dip Recipe

Goodness gracious, is this stuff good.   My whole addiction with taking sweet dips to functions started with my Cookie Dough Dip that everyone just loves.  But you know, after you take that same dip to so many functions, you feel like you aren’t bringing your “A” game anymore. You need to up the ante [...]

Butter Cake with Salted Caramel Buttercream Frosting Recipe

  Southern Caramel Cake. It’s just hard to beat it. It is one of my family’s all-time favorite cakes – especially for holidays, birthdays and major celebrations. You can just count on it appearing to make those special occasions even more special. Memorable even. It’s odd to put that much significance on a cake, but [...]

Apple Walnut Salad Recipe

  Happy Labor Day! I hope you are kicking back, relaxing and having a wonderful day with your family. Not only has Labor Day weekend always signified the beginning of school, football games, and putting away of white shoes, it has always also been the weekend we celebrate my Mama. Her birthday always falls some [...]

Blue Velvet Cake and a Virtual Baby Shower for Picky-Palate!

  Baby showers are so fun, aren’t they? You ooh and aah over the cutest baby clothes in pastel shades, ogle over the new fangled baby gear and how much it has changed since your baby showers, and then play shower games that can get just a wee bit crazy when they involve guessing how [...]