Chocolate Castles

  • Not Your Mama’s Banana Pudding

    Randy has been asking me to make banana pudding for the last couple of weeks, but being the sensitive, giving person I am, I ended up making the desserts that are what I wanted. So..today was the day. We are going to dinner at a friends house tonight and I am taking the dessert. If… Read more

  • Dark Chocolate Cupcakes With Cherry Frosting

    Paula’s done it again. This recipe combines two great flavors.  Cherry & Chocolate Taken from her Jan/Feb, 2012 issue, these are truly decadent. 1 cup butter 6 (1 oz) squares semisweet chocolate, chopped 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1 1/4 cups sugar 4 large eggs 2 cups flour 1 teas baking powder 1 teas salt… Read more

  • Summer Overnight Biscuit, Sausage & Apple Casserole

    Because it is summer we tend to want foods that are “lighter” in texture, but still full flavored and filling. Sausage casseroles tend to be a little heavy for summer liking, but when I found this one, because of the chopped apple (I tend to think that anything that has fruit in it makes it… Read more

  • Lemon Bar Cheesecake

    Friday evening we are having some friends over for dinner. When I came across this recipe from Southern Living Feb issue, I knew it would be our dessert for tonight. I love saving the magazines and going back through them. It reminds me of different scriptures that you have read a million times in the… Read more

  • Here A Cheerio, There A Cheerio, Everywhere A Cheerio

    Cheerio Treats Melt In microwave: 3 tables butter 10 oz miniature marshmallows 1/2 cup peanut butter, creamy or crunchy Add: 5 cups plain cheerios 1 cup M&M’s Mix well and quickly. It cools before you realize and becomes unworkable. Press into long glass pyrex 9×13 (greased) pan. Cool and cut into squares. The kids drove… Read more

  • Every Thing You Ever Wanted to Know About Your Mom (but have been afraid to ask)

    This past week we have spent a couple of days with some of our adult kids in San Diego. There were times that in conversation, different things about myself were said that surprised our kids. When I mentioned that we were in my “homeland” of where I was born, my daughter in law and son… Read more