Chocolate Castles

  • Fresh Orange Apple Cake

    Today I had volunteered to bring an apple cake for a dear friends birthday celebration. This is one of her favorite cakes, especially the praline frosting. If she was at the house when I might be making the frosting, she would stand there with a spoon, eating the frosting right out of the bowl. So, Read more

  • Veggie Dinner With Squash Dish (Calabacita)

    How was everyone’s Thanksgiving? Hope that all of you had the blessing of gathering around the table with family and friends to make some wonderful new memories. We were blessed to have two of our kids and their families here. Isn’t it just so wonderful to be able to enjoy your adult children? I heard Read more

  • Chicken Supreme

    This is a recipe I posted back in 2009 when I first created chocolate castles. As I was looking through some of my old recipes which were in a file last night, I came across this one. It was such a great casserole that is so easy to prepare and had such a great flavor. Read more

  • Sugar Cookies (taken from Martha Stewart Cookie Cookbook)

    These sugar cookies are so very good and so very easy. Because they have a little brown sugar in them, the flavor has a little different twist. One of my dear friends tells me that these are now her very favorite cookie and to please keep them coming. 3 cups flour 1 teas baking soda Read more

  • Pumpkin Dream Cake

    This morning I received a text from one of my DIL’s asking me to make this cake for her! She began the text with “since you are my favorite MIL will you make me this cake?” To which I replied “I hope I’m your fav MIL since I’m your only MIL but yes I will Read more

  • Soul Shampoo

    TThis morning as I stepped into the shower, I happened to glance at once to the shampoo we had in the shower rack. At eye level, I noticed that of the two shampoos we had, both had words that caught my attention. On the VO5 bottle, the words, “refresh and renew” were on the label. Read more