This time of year has a tendency to pass by in the blink of an eye. From dinner parties to tree trimmings, homes are all abuzz with the sights, sounds, and smells of the holiday season. As they say, “it’s the most wonderful time of the year” and this year’s holiday season has proved to…
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Chocolate and Coconut Cookie Bars
Do you want to know what’s strange to me? Pregnancy cravings. People always talk about them but you never realize their full effect until you’re eight months pregnant and you’re standing in the checkout line with a bag full of chocolate glazed doughnuts in your hand. Before I was pregnant, I always preferred salty snacks…
Chocolate Chip Cookies with Cherries and Pecans
Today I decided to take down the fall decor in preparation for putting up the Christmas decor after this weekend. Once all of the decor was packaged and placed in the storage closet, I looked at my husband and asked, “All of the pumpkins are gone. Do you know what that means?” He looked at…
Chocolate and White Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookies
There’s something to be said about friendships. There are those friends who you could go years without talking to and then pick back up right where you left off. There are those friends who will always be there for you — no matter the issue, distance, or circumstance. There are those friends who you can’t…
5 Ingredient Nutella Cookies
What has really been interesting to me during this whole pregnancy has been the changes that my body has gone through. With an athletic body (yes, I was a tomboy growing up and, to this day, I love to play sports), watching my body transform to create a nice and cozy home for baby Nugget…
Chocolate and Peanut Butter Chip Soft and Chewy Cookies
One of the most satisfying things that I can do for myself is to prepare flavorful recipes for others. Nothing brings me more joy than to spend time in the kitchen preparing savory dishes that will fill bellies and sinful desserts that will satisfy a sweet tooth. The aroma that blankets my home from spending…
Snowflake Sugar Cookies
I woke up this morning to snow falling from the sky and I immediately had a craving for sugar cookies. I know…I can’t explain it either. To make more sense of it, I decided to make sugar cookies…in snowflake form, of course. My craving for snow has been a little out of control lately. We…