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This Almond Raspberry Cake with White Chocolate Amaretto Buttercream Frosting is a total showstopper! Featuring four layers of light and fluffy almond cake, raspberry filling, and creamy white chocolate amaretto cream, this cake is decadently sweet! A must try if you love raspberry almond desserts!

Cakes, Chocolate

White Chocolate Almond Raspberry Cake

This Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Cheesecake is ultra creamy and the perfect marriage of chocolate and peanut butter! Featuring an oreo crust, creamy peanut butter cheesecake filling, and topped with with peanut butter chocolate ganache and peanut butter cups, it's a true showstopper! And any leftovers freeze great!

Cakes, cheesecake, Chocolate, Peanut Butter

Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Cheesecake

This Classic Italian Tiramisu for a Crowd is always a hit! Made with a creamy mascarpone mixture, coffee soaked ladyfingers, and a dusting of dark cocoa powder, this is heaven in a baking dish! No raw eggs in this recipe!

Cakes, Chocolate

Italian Tiramisu for a Crowd

The Best Brooklyn Blackout Cupcakes are insanely moist, filled with chocolate pudding, and topped with fudgy chocolate frosting and chocolate cake crumbs! Just like Brooklyn Blackout Cake... but in cupcake form! These require a little advance planning, but are sure to be a showstopper at your next event!

Cakes, Chocolate, Cupcakes

The Best Brooklyn Blackout Cupcakes

March 1, 2021

Best Easy Homemade French Toast

Today I’m teaching you how to make the BEST Easy French Toast! And you won’t believe how quick and easy it is! Topped with maple syrup, this French toast recipe is sure to become one of your favorite breakfasts!

Today I'm teaching you how to make the BEST Easy French Toast! And you won't believe how quick and easy it is! Topped with maple syrup, this French toast recipe is sure to become one of your favorite breakfasts!

French Toast Recipe

When it comes to french toast, I find people either love it… or hate it. I rarely meet someone with medium-level passion on the subject. And I think the reason behind this is simple.

The folks who love french toast have experienced the euphoric pleasure of enjoying REALLY good french toast. The kind that’s thick and golden brown and crispy in all the right places. While the haters have probably only experienced sad and soggy sandwich bread slices that no amount of maple syrup can save.

Today I'm teaching you how to make the BEST Easy French Toast! And you won't believe how quick and easy it is! Topped with maple syrup, this French toast recipe is sure to become one of your favorite breakfasts!

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Make this for Dinner

Nothing screams cozy like a giant bowl of Italian Chicken Tortellini Soup! Loaded with tender cheese tortellini, shredded chicken, fresh baby spinach, carrots, and celery... all in a super flavorful chicken broth! Serve this family favorite with extra parmesan cheese and crusty bread.

Italian Chicken Tortellini Soup

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

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

These Bakery-Style Chocolate Chip Cookies are super thick, rich in peanut butter flavor, and loaded with gooey chocolate chips! Press extra chocolate chips on top and sprinkle with sea salt for an impressive presentation! A great recipe for anyone who loves the combination of chocolate and peanut butter!

Bakery-Style Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chocolate lovers will go crazy for this decadent Homemade Chocolate Martini Recipe! Made with a homemade chocolate syrup instead of chocolate liqueur, they're not too sweet and won't give you a stomach ache after one sip! Garnish the martini glasses with cocoa powder, chocolate curls, or a sprig of fresh mint!

Homemade Chocolate Martini Recipe

My Double Chocolate Madeleines are fluffy, cakey, and perfect for dunking in tea or coffee! A sweet treat that's sure to please the chocolate lovers in your life! So bust out your madeleine pan and let's get baking!

Double Chocolate Madeleines

If you love chocolate cake, you have to try this sinfully delicious recipe for Devil's Food Cake! It's an old-fashioned recipe that's intensely rich, moist yet dense, and totally decadent! Exploding with rich chocolate flavor and covered in chocolate frosting, it's sure to become your favorite chocolate cake recipe!

Old-Fashioned Devil’s Food Cake

Chocolate Beignets

This Extra Moist Chocolate Banana Cake is topped with Espresso Chocolate Ganache! Baked in a load pan, this is a great snacking cake! A great recipe for the when you have ripe bananas and want to bake something other than banana bread!

Chocolate Banana Cake with Espresso Fudge Frosting

This Super Moist Chocolate Bundt Cake is always a crowd-pleaser! Loaded with rich chocolate flavor and covered in decedent chocolate ganache and shaved chocolate curls, this one is definitely a dessert for chocolate lovers only. So much easier than making a layer cake!

Best Ever Chocolate Bundt Cake

These thick and chewy Brown Butter M&M Blondies are irresistible! An easy cookie bar that's loaded with chocolate chips and M&M candies. Loved by kids and adults, this blondie recipe is always a crowd pleaser! 

Chewy Brown Butter M&M Blondies

Soft Pretzel Garlic Knots are chewy, flavorful, and so delicious! Made with a simple soft pretzel dough, they're shaped like knots and baked until golden brown. Then topped with garlic butter and parmesan cheese!

Soft Pretzel Garlic Knots

These Classic Bakery-Style Blueberry Scones are sweet, buttery, and exploding with fresh blueberries! Topped with sparkling coarse sugar and a sweet vanilla glaze, these are perfect for breakfast or brunch! Even scone haters love this recipe!

Classic Bakery-Style Blueberry Scones

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 Cake for a Crowd

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

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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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