Dessert

Chocolate Peanut Butter Meltaways

September 25, 2012

This past weekend I made one of my most favorite chocolate candies ever.  Chocolate Peanut Butter Meltaways Of course, I couldn’t eat them because chocolate and my pregnancy do not get along these days so I took these candies to a get-together we went to on Sunday night.  I had no problem QUICKLY unloading the [...]

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Pumpkin Snickerdoodles

September 6, 2012

Well, hello, hello… Gees Louis, I’ve been a horrible blogger as of late.  Pregnancy has done crazy things to my taste buds so I have really been lacking creativity.  BUT, here I am again, attempting to get back on the horse. Nothing motivates me to blog more than fall.  I love ALL foods that have [...]

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S’more Ice Cream Pie

July 26, 2012

My husband and I were recently in Chicago visiting family and friends.  While we were there, we celebrated my husbands 30th birthday by going out to eat to this great restaurant called Wildfire.  It’s a delicious steakhouse but the steak wasn’t what I left remembering that night.  No, no.  What I remember about that meal [...]

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Strawberry Granita

July 19, 2012

Hey Y’all!  My sincerest apologies for being out of the blogging world for almost two months now!  I feel just awful that Sweet Tea & Taters has been gone but I have good reason… Yep, my husband and I are so excited to announce that we have a little tater tot coming sometime around January [...]

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“Knock You Naked” Brownies

May 31, 2012

Hey Y’all!  I’ve been gone for a while because I haven’t been feeling great.  Sorry to keep you all waiting but I’m back today with a real HUM-DINGER! “Knock You Naked” Brownies.  Ok, a few notes on this recipe. 1.  I didn’t come up with the name.  That’s The Pioneer Woman’s doing. 2.  If it [...]

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Apple Crisp

May 22, 2012

I know it’s not fall but it is never the wrong time of year for an apple crisp! It’s been raining like crazy here in Philadelphia and it’s unseasonably cool for late May.  This weather puts me in the mood for comfort food and nothing says comfort like a warm, apple dessert.  Warm apples tossed [...]

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Red Velvet Gooey Butter Cookies

May 10, 2012
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I know, I know… red velvet is usually a Christmas or Valentine’s treat.  But what says “I love you mom” better than a red cookie?  This Mother’s Day get your kids in the kitchen with you and stir up a batch of these Red Velvet Gooey Butter cookies. Kids will love this recipe because it [...]

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Chocolate Pizza

May 4, 2012
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It’s Friday people!  You know what that means at our house, don’t’ you?  PIZZA!  Now, I have been wanting to make this dessert pizza for a long time now but my conscience always kicks in and says to me, “You don’t need chocolate pizza.  Be a good girl now and just have a glass of [...]

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Caramel Ice Cream with Cinnamon Chips

April 26, 2012
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So, I am obsessed with caramel.  I like it, I love it, I always want more of it. I’ve been seeing a lot of recipes lately for salted caramel.  Apparently it’s all the rage.  The idea of a salty-sweet snack really gets me excited so I decided to try my hand at salted caramel ice [...]

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Texas Sheet Cake

April 20, 2012
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I’m ending this week of blogging with a tried and true Southern favorite. Texas Sheet Cake.  So why is this cake called, “TEXAS” sheet cake?  There are lots of answers to that question but the most common reason it is called Texas sheet cake is because of it’s resemblance to the actual state.  It’s flat [...]

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