What do you immediately think of when I say “healthier muffin?” Is it something like a bran/fiber muffin, tasting much like cardboard, with a dense and dry texture? Yeah. Me too. So I’m here today to scratch that from your brain and give you a whole new outlook on a “healthier muffin” that has tons…
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Irish Soda Bread
Up until this weekend, I had never made Irish soda bread. Can you believe it? A baker, with a partial Irish background, who married into a very Irish-on-one-side family, never making a loaf of traditional soda bread? It was something I decided on Saturday morning that I needed to remedy by the close of the…
Soft-Baked Carrot Cake Granola
Fun fact about Lynn: carrot cake is one of my top 3 favorite desserts (along with chewy oatmeal raisin cookies and yellow cake with chocolate frosting), and I make an amazing one with the creamiest cream cheese frosting ever. It’s true. When I owned my own cake baking/decorating business, it was my most prized recipe,…
Homemade Cinnamon Raisin Peanut Butter
Are you full? Of the cookies, wine, brownies, candy, and more cookies that have taken over your life in the past month or two? Yeah, me too. I would be ok with never seeing another cookie ever again. Kiddinggggg! This is why I go to spin class. All kidding aside though, I’m going to try to keep…
Apple Cinnamon Baked Oatmeal
It’s that time of year that I start wanting warm, cinnamon-y breakfast. Maybe it’s because the weather is chilly and cozy, but it probably has a lot to do with the fact that I am a vacation hoarder and have myself a nice 2 weeks off of work. I normally grab one of these in the morning, but…
Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
My favorite question to ask people, especially people I’m meeting for the first time is this… If you could choose one dessert to have for the rest of your life, what would it be? I’m talking if this dessert were on a table with all the most delicious desserts you can think of, you would choose…