I realize it’s Cinco de Mayo and I don’t have anything festive for you for it.  Unless you have consumed at least 6 or more shots of Don Julio don’t put hot sauce on these peanut butter bars. About six years ago I worked with a woman who gave me a recipe for the peanut…

I actually have one more baking mix left but I decided to go ahead and begin my self-imposed scratch baking lessons a couple of weekends ago.  I started with these rolls and some scratch pizza dough.  I can’t even describe how much I adore the smell of yeast dough rising in a kitchen that is…

I must have been in Kindergarten or First Grade when a Girl Scout representative came to our classroom.  She was dressed from head to toe in the tan and green regalia.  Buttons, bows, patches she had it all going on.  She gave us a little speech about the program and then invited any girl who…

 We liked and ate up this cake.  Although, as Ben put it, it’s “just a cake.”  He said, “I mean, it’s a really good cake, but it’s just a cake.” Then I said, “But its got HERSHEY’S KISSES Dark Chocolates filled with Mint Truffle and green mint buttercream.”  And he said, “I know, those things…

If you have never had or heard of a Buckeye then you have really missed out.  Your life is not quite complete.  I have never actually made them.  But I have eaten them plenty of times in my life.  I believe I even have a faint memory of my mother making them without the chocolate…

I realize this is not an original idea.  But, what I was going for with this cake was a great cake consistency using a mix.  I Googled “how to make a box cake mix denser”.  The search gave me quite a few different ideas and I incorporated every single one of them.  I don’t know…