Soft and chewy chocolate cookies filled with creamy white chocolate chunks and sweet maraschino cherry pieces. Is there a food, specifically a dessert, that reminds you of your childhood? I’ve said before that cardamom tastes like my childhood and honey walnut cookies taste like Christmas growing up, but there is a cake that reminds me specifically…
maraschino cherries
Healthier Ambrosia Salad
A lighter recipe for classic ambrosia fruit salad. I have to thank Snapchat for reminding me to bring this post to the blog this week, because it notified me OH SO WONDERFULLY a couple days ago that there is only one month until the start of summer. One. Month. ONE MONTH! How exciting is that?!…
Cherry Almond Date Cookies
Soft-centered cookies filled with crunchy slivered almonds, sweet maraschino cherries, and chewy, flavorful dates. Perfect for your cookie jar any time of the year! Welcome to recipe #1 of my 12 Days of Christmas Cookies! Did you just get really excited? Or perhaps overwhelmed because 12 kinds of cookies is a lot of cookies? Or…
Mini Pineapple Upside-Down Cakes
Like the classic, just smaller. Moist and flavorful cake topped with pineapple and a cherry. Confession: I have never made a pineapple upside-down cake. I have made a cranberry upside-down cake (about 5 years ago, before blogging was “a thing” for me), but never the classic. I guess you can say I’ve still not made…
Piña Colada Bars
Piña coladas never tasted so good! These tropical pineapple and coconut bars are the answer to your summer sweet tooth. I am not a cocktail girl. Not one bit. I am most definitely a wine or beer girl, 100%. Although I do enjoy a traditional margarita with salt on the rim, I haven’t touched a sweet,…