Recipes

These Apricot Coconut Cookie Bars have a buttery shortbread base with a sweet apricot and coconut top layer that’s enriched with sweetened condensed milk.

These Turtle Brownies are inspired by Turtles which are a very popular Holiday treat at our house. Santa always remembers to put some of those delicious chocolate, pecan and caramel clusters in my stocking every year. I have been looking for a really fudgy, chewy brownie for a while to use as a base for …

Coconut Cream Cake. A light tender homemade sponge cake gets filled with multiple layers of rich coconut cream filling before being covered completely in vanilla whipped cream and toasted coconut.

Graham Crumble Cherry Bars. An unusual but delicious graham cracker crumb crumble cookie bar with a filling of sweet cherry compote.

Orange Date Crumble Bars. A delicious citrus twist on traditional date crumbles or “Matrimonial Bars”. The buttery oatmeal and coconut crumble is what makes this recipe the best.

Triple Ginger Gingerbread Cake. With 3 different ginger ingredients, this could be the gingeriest gingerbread ever!

Cafe Mocha Cutout Cookies Olivia has been in the kitchen baking cookies again and since she will be 15 in just a few weeks, her tastes seem to be a little more adult. This recipe would make a good alternative to gingerbread for making decorated Christmas Cookies but make a scrumptious coffee break treat at …

Decorated Christmas Gingerbread Cookies Originally published on December 19, 2007. One of the Christmas activities our kids always look forward to every year (they’ve been hounding us for a week already) is making their gingerbread cookies. They try to make each one differently than the others and earmark one or two to be received by …

Almond Roca Cookie Bars Here’s a great, easy-to-make cookie bar recipe with the delicious flavor of Almond Roca candy. Caramely, nutty and chocolatey, what more could you want in a great cookie bar?Mix together: 1 1/2 cups graham wafer crumbs2 tbsp sugar1/3 cup melted butter Press into the bottom of a light;y greased and parchment …

  Even if you are not a baker, I’ll bet you will have no trouble putting together this easy and pretty quick to prepare Pina Colada Upside Down Cake. The fresh pineapple makes all the difference in a simple recipe like this, although you can use canned in a pinch. I buy a fresh golden …