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These Bakery-Style Eggnog Scones are flaky, buttery, and loaded with eggnog flavor! Topped with a sweet eggnog glaze, they're perfect for Christmas morning! Best served warm, with a cup of coffee or tea!

Breakfast, Christmas, Holiday, Scones

Bakery-Style Eggnog Scones

These festive Cranberry Orange Muffins feature fresh cranberries, fresh orange juice, and a touch of orange zest! Frozen cranberries can be used, but I don't suggest using dried cranberries. Bust out your muffin pan and treat yourself to a batch today!

Breakfast, Muffins

Bakery-Style Cranberry Orange Muffins

Bust out your muffins tins, because today I'm teaching you how to make the best apple crumb muffins! These apple muffins are moist, richly spiced, and loaded with tender apples! Plus, plenty of buttery crumb topping!

Apple Recipes, Breakfast, Muffins

The Best Apple Crumb Muffins

Rustic Cranberry Hand Pies feature a flaky crust and a delicious orange cranberry filling! And their petite handheld size makes them perfect for sharing this holiday season! It's just not Christmas in our house without these on the table!

Breakfast, Christmas, Holiday, Pie, Thanksgiving

Cranberry Hand Pies

January 20, 2021

Lemon Cake for a Crowd

My lemon cake for a crowd is moist, fluffy, and loaded with fresh lemon flavor! Topped with silky smooth lemon cream cheese frosting, dollops of lemon curd, and fresh lemon slices, this is one of my most popular lemon desserts. Bonus: this lemon sheet cake is so easy and feeds a crowd!

My lemon cake for a crowd is moist, fluffy, and loaded with fresh lemon flavor! Topped with silky smooth lemon cream cheese frosting, dollops of lemon curd, and fresh lemon slices, this is one of my most popular lemon desserts. Bonus: this lemon sheet cake is so easy and feeds a crowd!

Lemon Sheet Cake

Anyone else DREAMING about the days when we can safely entertain again? I love love love having friends and family over for brunch, picnics, and dinner parties. And I’m praying one day soon we’ll all be in need of recipes that can easily serve a crowd!

My lemon cake for a crowd is moist, fluffy, and loaded with fresh lemon flavor! Topped with silky smooth lemon cream cheese frosting, dollops of lemon curd, and fresh lemon slices, this is one of my most popular lemon desserts. Bonus: this lemon sheet cake is so easy and feeds a crowd! …

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Make this for Dinner

These Crazy Good Classic Stuffed Shells are creamy, gooey, carb-y comfort food at it's best! This family loved recipe features perfectly cooked shells, flavorful tomato sauce, and the most delicious ricotta filling! Sure to become one of your favorite pasta dishes!

Crazy Good Classic Stuffed Shells

My Best Ever Baked Ziti Recipe serves a crowd and is sure to receive rave reviews! Today I'm spilling my secrets on how to master this classic pasta dish and make it better than you ever have before. Including how to achieve perfectly cooked noodles, make delicious homemade sauce, get golden brown gooey cheese pockets, and so much more.

Best Ever Baked Ziti Recipe

Cheesy Bacon and Green Bean Casserole is creamy, crunchy, and so delicious! Always a huge hit at Thanksgiving celebrations, parties, and pot lucks! If you've been looking for a new green bean casserole recipe, this is it!

Cheesy Bacon Green Bean Casserole

The Best Homemade Lasagna Recipe is cheesy, meaty, saucy, and SO delicious!!! And while this recipe requires a bit of work, it can be made ahead of time and stored in the fridge for up to 24 hours before baking. A hearty recipe that's perfect for feeding large groups! #lasagna #lasagnarecipe

The Best Homemade Lasagna Recipe

Preheat your oven to 350, because we're making Baked Rigatoni Fra Diavolo with Sausage and Zucchini for dinner tonight! Featuring a spicy tomato sauce loaded with fresh herbs, Italian sausage, tender zucchini, and tons of gooey cheese! This is Summer comfort food at its best!

Baked Rigatoni Fra Diavolo with Sausage and Zucchini

It's beginning to feel a lot like Summer, and you know what that means, right? It's PASTA SALAD SEASON! And this Pesto Orzo Pasta Salad with Zucchini, Goat Cheese, and Tomatoes is sure to be on heavy rotation all Summer long! This mayo-free pasta salad is vegetarian friendly and perfect for picnics, potlucks, and barbecues! #pestopastasalad #pesto #orzo #orzopastasalad

Pesto Orzo Pasta Salad with Zucchini, Goat Cheese, and Tomatoes

Travel

Scottsdale Four Seasons Girls Trip

Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North

A few months ago I traveled to Scottsdale for my bachelorette party and it was AMAZING! My bridesmaids rented an adorable house and for 4 days we swam, drank margaritas, ate too many chips, and danced our hearts out. It was one of those trips that went by WAY too fast! And I was grateful…

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More Recipes

This EASY Chocolate Peppermint Fudge Recipe is rich, creamy, and topped with crunchy crushed candy canes! If you love the combination of chocolate and peppermint, you're going to love this fudge! And it makes a great holiday gift for friends and family!

Easy Chocolate Peppermint Fudge

Santa's Favorite Peanut Butter M&M Cookies are thick, soft, and chewy! These GIANT bakery-style holiday cookies are loaded with peanut butter, M&Ms, and gooey milk chocolate chips! A crowd-pleasing cookie recipe that's loved equally by kiddos and adults!

Santa’s Favorite Peanut Butter M&M Cookies

These EASY Candied Pecans are sweet, crunchy, and borderline addictive! Made with simple ingredients, these candied nuts are delicious on salads, ice cream, yogurt, casseroles, or just by the handful! Store in an airtight container and they'll last up to two weeks!

Candied Pecans

Bust out your cookie sheet, because these thin crispy chocolate chip cookies are a must bake! These cookies bake up golden brown and smell like heaven! Super thin and delightful crisp, these are one of our favorite chocolate chip cookie recipes!

Thin Crispy Chocolate Chip Cookies

We're butter pecan fanatics, so it only seems fitting that one of our favorite "splurge" breakfast treats are Butter Pecan Cinnamon Buns! They're just like classic cinnamon rolls, but with a TONS of crunchy, gooey, chopped pecans on top. Perfect for Thanksgiving or Christmas morning!

Butter Pecan Cinnamon Buns

Monster cookies are loaded with creamy peanut butter, chewy oats, colorful m&ms, and gooey chocolate chips! They bake up super thick, with chewy edges and incredibly soft centers. A must try for all of my fellow cookie monsters out there!

Peanut Butter Monster Cookies

The only thing better than apple pie is cute little apple hand pies!!! Featuring apple shaped homemade pie crust and gooey apple pie filling, these individual apple pies bake up in about 15 minutes! The perfect apple hand pies to for share with loved ones this holiday season.

Cute Little Apple Hand Pies

Bakery-Style Cranberry Orange Scones

Chewy Butterscotch Oatmeal Cookies AKA Oatmeal Scotchies

Coffee lovers will go crazy for these Espresso Chocolate Chunk Brownies! They're thick, fudgy, and loaded with rich chocolate espresso flavor. One of our favorite brownie recipes and always a crowd-pleaser!

Espresso Chocolate Chunk Brownies

Whiskey lovers will go crazy for these Rye Whiskey Chocolate Chip Cookies! Made with a unique combination of rye flour and all purpose flour, they bake up soft, chewy, and ultra thick! Brown butter, rye whiskey, and plenty of chocolate make these grown up chocolate chip cookies totally irresistible!

Rye Whiskey Chocolate Chip Cookies

These Soft and Chewy Brown Butter Oatmeal Raisin Cookies are loaded with oats, raisins, and plenty of warm spices! Browning the butter adds TONS of flavor and once you try it, you'll never go back to another method! A great recipe to make anytime of year, but especially popular in our house during the holiday season!

Brown Butter Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

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Meet Ashley

Hey! I’m Ashley, a creative spirit with a major sweet tooth. Most days you can find me in my happy place: the kitchen. If I’m not there, I’m probably snapping photos of food, planning a party… or dreaming about my next trip to Paris (AKA my favorite place in the entire world). I’m a story teller, recipe developer, and photographer who firmly believes that a homemade life is a happy life. Learn More.

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