Jack-O’-Lantern Rice Krispie Treats

Posted by Tracy | Filed under desserts & sweets

Happy Halloween! For my last post for this year’s #GreatHallowTweet bloghop, I give you these jack-o’-lantern Rice Krispie treats. Since I went a little crazy earlier this week making my own candy corn, I decided that a quick and easy Halloween treat was in order for today. Since you likely have most, if not all, [...]

Tags: greathallowtweet, marshmallow

Read more | Comments (19) | October 31, 2010

Thumbprint Cookies

Posted by Tracy | Filed under desserts & sweets

Ever since I became addicted to canning this year and started making all of my own jams and jellies, I’ve fallen in love with desserts that make use of preserves. I guess I never realized how many types of jam desserts there are – pies, tarts, fillings for cakes, and of course cookies, to name [...]

Tags: 12weeksofchristmascookies, cookie

Read more | Comments (30) | October 29, 2010

Daring Baker Challenge: Baked Pumpkin Doughnuts

Posted by Tracy | Filed under desserts & sweets

The October 2010 Daring Bakers challenge was hosted by Lori of Butter Me Up. Lori chose to challenge DBers to make doughnuts. She used several sources for her recipes including Alton Brown, Nancy Silverton, Kate Neumann and Epicurious. When I saw that this month’s Daring Baker challenge was doughnuts, I was absolutely thrilled! After falling [...]

Tags: daring baker, doughnut, pumpkin

Read more | Comments (26) | October 27, 2010

Candy Corn

Posted by Tracy | Filed under desserts & sweets

In case you haven’t noticed on my sidebar, the #GreatHallowTweet is back! That’s right, today through Halloween day, Renee of Flamingo Musings is once again our ghoulish host. The list on my sidebar is the list of all of the bloggers who are participating, so you can “hop” from one blog to the next to [...]

Tags: candy, greathallowtweet

Read more | Comments (53) | October 26, 2010

Nanny’s Victoria Sponge (A Review of Perfect One-Dish Dinners)

Posted by Tracy | Filed under desserts & sweets

Perfect One-Dish Dinners is Pam Anderson’s latest cookbook, and it is quickly becoming one of my go-to cookbooks for entertaining. I first met Pam at the Big Summer Potluck, where I was absolutely thrilled to hear her sessions on writing recipes – after all, who better to glean tips and advice from than a former [...]

Tags: cake, reviews & giveaways

Read more | Comments (27) | October 25, 2010

Muddy Buddy Cookies

Posted by Tracy | Filed under desserts & sweets

Whether you call them muddy buddies or puppy chow (according to Wikipedia a newer name is Chewbacca chew, for all the Star Wars fans out there), this fun snack is the same – cereal (usually Chex or a similar type of rice or corn cereal) coated with a mixture of melted chocolate, butter, vanilla, and peanut butter, and [...]

Tags: 12weeksofchristmascookies, cookie, sunbutter

Read more | Comments (50) | October 22, 2010

Spicy Apple Salsa

Posted by Tracy | Filed under canning

I was a little bummed that this month’s Tigress Can Jam theme wasn’t apples, since I’ve been canning them like crazy – namely my apple maple butter, which is my dad’s personal favorite. Alas, the theme was chili peppers, although any fruit of the plant family capsicum was eligible for use in our recipes. I [...]

Tags: apple, canning, tigresscanjam

Read more | Comments (20) | October 20, 2010