Thursday, July 16th, 2009

On the fabulous message board that I frequent, we tried our first ever baking exchange.  It’s basically like Secret Santa (we used the website elfster.com) but with yummy baked goods!

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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

My husband turned 30 on June 17 and this past weekend we had our entire family & group of friends over our house for cake, presents, and rice krispie treats.  Yes, I said rice krispie treats!  Nothing brings me back to my childhood like RK treats and I knew I wante dto make some for the party but I knew I had to dress them up.  I decided to go with my hbs favorite flavors of peanut butter and choclate and dip the RK treats!

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Sunday, March 16th, 2008

In honor of St. Patty’s Day tomorrow, I decided to try my hand at what I spotted on Bakerella’s blog… Cake Balls. These little puppies are bite size pieces of ecstasy! I decided to go with a chocolate cake mix and chocolate frosting… then dip them in vanilla chocolate (the green ones) and mint chocolate (the white ones). Oh yum-yum! The outside is a hard candy shell and when you bite into them, it’s like a fudgey brownie consistency.

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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

So I stumbled upon this recipe yesterday for Kandy Kakes… not just any Kandy Kakes, the delicious PB & Chocolate ones! Ya can’t get these little squares (or circles!) of goodness up here in RI… only when we go home to MD and spend some time at the shore are we able to scoop up enough boxes to last us through the winter… or at least the 6+ hour ride home!

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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

So I stumbled upon this recipe yesterday for Kandy Kakes… not just any Kandy Kakes, the delicious PB & Chocolate ones! Ya can’t get these little squares (or circles!) of goodness up here in RI… only when we go home to MD and spend some time at the shore are we able to scoop up enough boxes to last us through the winter… or at least the 6+ hour ride home!

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