recipes

  • THE loaded baked potato dip

    Y’all, this loaded baked potato dip is like crack. It’s utterly addicting and oh so popular. I made a batch for our tailgate over the weekend, and everyone who tried it swooned. Make it today, try it tomorrow, and then tell me how much you love it. If anyone proposes marriage after trying it, you…

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  • Monogrammed Rice Krispie treats

    I made these wedding color Rice Krispie treats in addition to the bride and groom ones. Leslie’s wedding colors are green, blue, and yellow, so I opted for green melts and royal blue melts. The yellow really wasn’t dark enough to show up against the color of the cereal. For the monograms: you can use…

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  • Bride and groom Rice Krispie treats

    One wedding tradition in the Pittsburgh area is a cookie table. Family and friends bake lots of cookies and treats to serve along with wedding cake (or wedding pie as Leslie and Adam are having). My mom and I were talking about what sort of cookies to make, and we wanted to make sure we…

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  • Recipes to master

    I am a lover and collector of cookbooks. The irony is not lost on me that I have literally boxes of cookbooks, but I don’t use them too often. Given that I’ve been baking and cooking since I was eight, you would think I would have mastered most of the cooking basics in these books….

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  • Easy cookie bars

    Easy cookie bars

    I saw this recipe the other night and decided to give it a try. While I love cookies, I also love the sheer laziness of cookie bars. All the taste and chewiness of cookies without the hassle of scooping dough. You also don’t have to soften butter or chill the dough. The base of the…

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  • Caramel Kiss shortbread cookies

    Shall we dive into the debate of car-mull vs. care-a-mell? Personally, I’m a car-mull kind of gal. I’ve been mulling over these caramel kiss shortbread cookies for months and finally whipped up a batch. My inspiration were shortbread cookies that a sweet, old, English lady at my church in high school used to make for…

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