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Dessert Recipes

Caramel Apple Salad

Caramel Apple Salad

The title of this recipe kind of creeps me out. I don’t like salads. Okay, actually I like pasta salad. And I like this salad. I am not sure if you can classify this sweet, delicious treat a salad, but for all intents and purposes, 

OMG Brownies

OMG Brownies

Do you ever just have an urge to bake? Just to dig through your cupboards and find SOMETHING you can pop in the oven? I had that urge recently. And what resulted were these gooey, dark chocolate brownies. Oh yeah, and they had a caramel 

Baileys Hazelnut Dark Chocolate Fudge

Baileys Hazelnut Dark Chocolate Fudge

I went through a peanut butter fudge phase when I was in college. I looked online for a “simple fudge recipe” and found one that I probably made every other week during my senior year. While I was looking through the recipes, I came across 

Guest Post: Caitlin’s Snickerdoodle Bread

Guest Post: Caitlin’s Snickerdoodle Bread

Caitlin is one of my fellow food-obsessed friends at the office and she’s been known to bring in some treats that make even a Monday morning tolerable. This Snickerdoodle Bread is probably my FAVORITE and I am so glad she shared this recipe! Be sure 

Old Cookbooks + Apple Krunch

Old Cookbooks + Apple Krunch

When I was younger and still lived at home I tried having a “Sunday Baking Day”. I probably only actually baked 2 Sundays each month, but that’s pretty good if you ask me. I was really lucky that my mom liked cooking. We had a