Today's Special Value

When I started thinking about making my mom's birthday cake, I had trouble coming up with a design theme. I was discussing the cake with my brother and jokingly suggested making her a QVC (the TV shopping channel) cake. He liked the idea and thought I should go with it. When I mentioned it to my dad, he had a good chuckle about it. And so it was decided...

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Berrylicious

I was walking into Publix one day, and right inside the door was a bin of fresh blueberries. I had been wanting to make blueberry muffins from scratch for a while now, so I snagged a batch. The same weekend that I made the Valentine's cookies, I made myself some blueberry muffins for breakfast. I found a recipe that seemed pretty easy. The only change...

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Have a Heart

I totally fail at posting things in a timely manner - I really need to work on that! - but these cookies were too cute not to share. I had told my new co-workers that I liked to bake but hadn't made them anything yet. So I figured Valentine's Day was the perfect occasion to take them some cookies. My snowflake Christmas cookies were such a hit that...

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Let it Snow!

I realized that I've been bad at updating my blog and never posted these Christmas cookies that I made a little over a month ago. What better than being snowed in to remind me about my snowflake cookies! I had a set of snowflake cookie cutters that had been calling out to me for a while, so I decided to make use of them for the first Christmas party...

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