Here is an easy cookie recipe that the chocolate lovers in your life (aka you and anyone you choose to share with) would love to receive, just in time for Valentine’s Day. We have made two batches of these in the last week, and my taste-testers have told me that I can make them…
Food Gifts
Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins + muffin facts you need in your life
Did you know that the blueberry muffin is the official state muffin of Minnesota? I lived there for two years, and did not know that. It appears that our love affair with the small cake aka muffin as we know it, is first recorded in 1703 spelled Moofin (“I would like a MOOFIN with my…
Peanut Butter + Chocolate Chunk Brownies
Some days are chocolate days. I personally find that I function at a much higher level with enough coffee and chocolate to fuel a small army. We have two options each day, happy mommy or not as happy as she could be mommy. That’s right, you know the one I always choose. Since chocolate and…
Favorite Recipes 2013
Wishing you a wonderful, blessed & abundant year in 2014 friends! I had so much fun putting together the Best DIY roundup for 2013 and seeing how far we have come around our house. And I couldn’t forget about what we whipped up in the kitchen so here is a group of my favorite things…
10 Minute Peppermint Hot Cocoa Mix In A Jar + A grocery cart race too
I’m sure you finished your shopping weeks ago. And your aren’t frazzled. Your gifts are probably all wrapped. And you may even have a turkey thawing already in your refrigerator. You probably have your Christmas dinner menu all planned out. You’re so organized like that, I really am aspiring to have my stuff together one…
Chewy Gingersnap Cookies
I have to admit, I would love to be a roll-the-gingerbread-dough-out kind of baker. But, I am more of a just-hurry-up-and-make-the-cookies-as-fast-as-you-can-because-they taste-so-good kind of person. Sure, there is a time and place for a more time consuming recipe. But when there are stockings to fill, gifts to still wrap, and care packages to be delivered …
Cinnamon Roll Quick Bread
Cinnamon Roll Bread has become one of my favorite quick bread recipes around casa twelveOeight. It makes a great bread to serve for a coffee play-date with friends, as well as a wonderful addition to our Christmas morning breakfast. I think I may whip up a few extra batches this year to wrap up and…
Halloween Monster Munch Recipe | Donna from A Little While
Trick-or-treat! If I were to make a treat for all of the cute little Trick-or-Treaters out there, this would be it. Monster Munch… It’s so festive! I love how the white chocolate kinda looks like mummy wrappings. It’s also yum-tastic! Perfect for this year’s Halloween Party, don’t you think? Here is my recipe for…Monster Munch (slightly adapted from…
Apple Cider Donut Recipe
You are going to love me… Actually, you will love Donna, who is a fan-freaking-tastic cook and continues to blow me away with her talent. So you can love her, and thank me, perfect! Check out how Donna makes Apple Cider Donuts, just like the ones she remembers from California ranch country. Thank you…
Pioneer Woman’s Sweet Watermelon Salsa
Last week my hubby came across this Pioneer Woman recipe, and wehave made and subsequently devoured three batches of it now. Watermelon, peppers, red onion, cilantro, lime juice…As we worked on it together, it struck me that gettinga minimum of 5 servings of fruits and vegetables every daycan be incorporated into our diets this easily….