Chocolate Cream Cheese Croissant

Here is a quick, easy and oh so yummy recipe perfect for breakfast, brunch or dessert.   Full of wonderful flavors of chocolate and coffee, ready to wake up your taste buds, this little croissant is sure to be a favorite. Our favorite chocolate-filled crescents made even better with the addition of cream cheese.  Sprinkle with a little powdered …

Chocolate Chip Pan Cookie

Original Nestle' Toll House recipe for Chocolate Chip Pan Cookie.  This recipe is more like a chocolate chip bread or brownie, and still has all the wonderful flavor of a toll has chocolate chip cookie.  Delicious.  Great for the holiday season, an easy, yummy dessert cookie that always goes quick. I made this recipe as directed.  These little cookies turned out so good …

Pumpkin-Banana Bread w/Cream Cheese Filling

This is a wonderfully moist bread that brings two old favorites together.  A tasty pumpkin-banana bread with a cream cheese filling perfect for breakfast or dessert. Are you ready for holiday baking?  I am!  Although I don't think my waistline is prepared for what comes next...at all!  I went to the grocery store today and …

Candy Corn Popcorn Balls

Trick or Treat smell my feet, give me something good to eat!  Happy Halloween everyone!  Do you remember singing that silly song as a kid? Walking up to someone's door, ringing the doorbell and then ...bellowing out a chorus of Trick or Treat. Halloween was such a fun time when I was a kid.  What a great …

Chocolate Chocolate Spice Cake

Hello all!  It is a perfect Autumn day in Texas.  Sunshine and clear blue skies with a cool, ever so welcome, calm breeze.   Today I celebrate life!  I woke up, I'm alive and feeling good.  Well ...okay, maybe a few aches and pains here and there ...but hey, who is complaining?  Not me!  I got up, …

Favorite Fall Desserts

From apples to pumpkins, to sweet potato pie, we love all the wonderful recipes of fall.  I never can decide on which to bake, let's face it folks, I love them all! Here are a few of my favorite dessert recipes to put you right in the mood for that cool, crisp autumn weather and the delicious flavors …

Chocolate Pudding Cookies

I can relate to the Cookie Monster on Sesame Street.  Some of you younger folks my be saying who?  But, I can!  There are days that I just want to eat and eat and eat cookies and nothing else.  Of course, that would not be good at all ...and it always got the Cookie Monster in trouble.  …

Maple-Pumpkin Bars

I WON THE LOTTERY!!! Happy Friday to all!  Okay, if you are wondering ...no, I didn't really win the lottery.  I would have to actually buy a lottery ticket, which doesn't happen very often.  No, just fooling around this morning to see who is really reading my post.  😉  I did however find a delicious dessert to share, …

Pecan Coffee Cake Crumble

Good morning all!  Happy Sunday to you!  I am enjoying a couple moments of quite "me" time.  My son and the animals are still fast asleep.  Getting up on a Sunday morning, being the first one up, and being able to steal away some time to enjoy a cup of decaf coffee and a scrumptious pecan cake ...ahhh ...heaven.  It truly …

A Tribute And Peach Cobbler For Selma

I am so saddened by the news today of a blogger friend's passing, Selma at Selma's Table.  I did not know Selma well, only through Fiesta Friday, but I could tell right away that she was a beautiful person.  A very warm and caring person who loved to live life.  When I would talk to Selma through our …