Chocolate Castles

  • Pumpkin Pecan Cobbler

    Pumpkins Pumpkins everywhere! Isn’t it grand? In fact, if I’m not careful, I will be able to trick or treat as a pumpkin without putting on a costume. Fall is just the best time of the year. Moods change from wanting to find the nearest pool to wanting to bake. Actually, that is not a… Read more

  • Pumpkin Cheesecake Brownies

    Originally posted on Chocolate Castles: Pumpkin Layer: 1/2 cup butter 1 cup brown sugar 1 egg 1 1/2 teas vanilla 1 cup flour 1 tsp baking powder 1 teas cinnamon 1/2 teas pumpkin pie spice 1/4 teas salt 3/4 cup pumpkin 1/2 cup nuts (optional) Mix all ingredients and spoon into a 8×8 buttered pan.… Read more

  • Chocolate Chip Cookie Brittle

    Something else to get addicted to, as if I didn’t have enough already. Thank you Patti for sharing with us and for introducing me to something else that I will now have to keep locked up, after making it. This will be so great to have on hand for all the company that will be… Read more

  • Jalapeno Pepper Jelly

    This morning it was such fun to go to a friends house with 3 other friends to make jelly. It reminded me of stories from women who use to meet with ladies to sew or make jelly or batches of cookies. We had a blast. Some chopped while others measured sugar or vinegar to pour… Read more

  • Spinach Salad & Prosciutto Dressing

    A precious friend sent me a wonderful cookbook from the Richardson Womens Club called Texas Blossoms…Food, Flowers & Friendship! It has been such a delight to not only see new recipes but read about different parts of Texas and the flowers which grow and stories of recipes origins! This salad sounded so good, it will… Read more

  • Cornbread-Stuffed Zucchini

    It feels so wonderful to sit in the sun room and look through recipe magazines. This morning i found a picture of gardenias that i am dying to attempt to paint.  Hopefully they will end up looking like gardenias and not weeds, but that is another story! Flipping through pages of a Southern Living, this… Read more