Pear Pie Bars are a little bit different than the traditional apple standby. You’ve got to try them to love them. You guys, why isn’t Pear Pie a thing? This is what crossed my mind as I bit into my eleventy-fifth Pear Pie Bar the other day. Think about it – we make apple pie …
Christmas
Let’s get one last Christmas cookie recipe in under the wire, okay? I’ve been baking up a storm for weeks, and these are probably my favorite out of the bunch. You’ll read the recipe and think, “Flatten with a spatula, Amber?”, but that’s really how I achieved that perfect chewy texture. I don’t claim to …
We’re getting down to the wire now, folks. Less than 7 days before Christmas! I’ve been thinking we need a solidly delicious muffin recipe for Christmas morning. How about some Fair Trade Chocolate and Cranberry muffins? I decided to pop in with this great recipe for Christmas morning that uses lots of delicious Fair Trade …
Gift giving is probably my favorite part of any holiday – birthdays, Christmas, Easter, Kwanzaa… if I can find a reason to buy someone a gift that makes them smile, I’m a happy girl. This particular holiday season, I think it’s important to have some in-the-clutch ideas for the foodie in your life. Food blogs …
Today I bring to you my last recipe of 2012 for Green Mountain Coffee. It features one of my favorite holiday flavors, Fair Trade Gingerbread Coffee. I don’t know what took me so long to try my hand at whoopie pies, but I watched with envy as my fellow food bloggers around the web made …
You know what’s really awesome? Being friends with super smart people. I don’t claim to be the smartest person on the block, but I do claim to know some of them. Case in point: Shaina Olmanson. Shaina and I’ve been friends for a while, meeting in person for the first time at BlogHer Food in …
If you’re anything like me, you’re in full-on holiday scramble mode. I don’t know how I ended up here. Every year, I intend to start purchasing Christmas gifts in August. Up until about 2007, that’s what I did. By December, I was sitting back cool, calm and collected while everyone else rushed around. But somehow, …
Last year I did The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap and had a great time, and got some great cookies. This year, I was more excited than ever to participate because this year, participation meant money for the charity Cookies for Kids’ Cancer. Right about the time I needed to decide what cookies to make …
This time of year, I’m a sucker for the seasonal candy. I posted last week about Crinkle Cookies topped with festive candy cane chocolates. I definitely love the holidays and the candy they bring. But my one true candy love come Christmas time is peppermint bark. In any form I can get it! Every year, …
When I was little, my favorite kind of cookie to get from the bakery or coffee shop was always one with a chocolate base. We never made that kind at home, and basically, they seemed like magical inside-out cookies to my kidlet brain. It might be 30 years later, but for me, the magic of …