Crazy for Cookies and More

Giant Peanut Butter Skillet Cookie

2026-01-29T10:01:00.001-05:00

Giant Peanut Butter Skillet CookieWhile poking around on the internet, I came across a recipe that said it was with help from AI. Oh boy did that intrigue me! I had used AI while I was working at Assurant. At work the assignment was to create a superhero of yourself. We were given the basic phrase to create the image and all you had to do was add your specific

Fern Chili

2026-01-27T15:34:00.000-05:00

Winter Storm Fern was a heck of a storm and left us with lots of snow!The news stations around us were forecasting lots of snow most of last week. We have gotten to the point of not paying much attention to big snowstorms. Simply because most times it does not pan out. Everyone goes and clears off the bread shelves for nothing.A couple days in to "a big snowstorm is coming" and

Open-Faced Garlic Toast French Dip Sandwich

2026-01-22T09:45:00.003-05:00

Open-Faced Garlic Bread French Dips are one of our fast and easy go to mealsThis is a fast easy sandwich to make. It just takes assembling and a little oven time. While in the oven you can heat up your Au Jus That's it ... easy peasy 😋You can use any frozen garlic toast for this recipe. I like the roast beef at Aldi so most of my ingredients for these sandwiches come

Sea Salt Snickerdoodle Skillet Cookie

2026-01-19T20:26:00.005-05:00

Sea Salt Snickerdoodle Skillet CookieMy new skillet is a Christmas gift from Bill, Amanda and the grandkids. I love using a cast iron skillet.When I bake in a cast iron skillet, it reminds me of my Grandma Sowards. She used her cast iron skillet probably every day. The one thing I remember her baking in her skillet was cornbread. Oh, there is no cornbread out there that even

Frosted Confetti Cupcake Poptart Cookies

2026-01-16T12:40:00.001-05:00

Frosted Confetti Cupcake Poptart CookiesI have discovered my new favorite Poptart flavor! I had no idea there was a Cupcake flavored poptart. Yesterday I made this new cookie creation to drop off for the church staff. This was a new recipe experiment, but I would say it was a success 🧁 Bill approved 😉I added chopped up Frosted Confetti Cupcake Poptarts to the batter and put a

Strawberry Lemonade Cookies

2026-01-14T10:29:00.000-05:00

The Strawberry Lemonade Cookie was a market favorite. I know why... it is soooooo gooooood!When Cally made these Strawberry Lemonade Cookies for the market, I was intrigued by the flavor. This cookie became an immediate favorite of mine 🍋🍓 I am a lemon lover through and through 🩷Not only was this my new favorite cookie it was a huge hit at the farmer's market. She had

Happy Birthday Melvin

2026-01-12T12:09:00.004-05:00

Melvin chose a Pikachu Pokémon Cake for his

Long time no see ... I am back

2026-01-07T12:37:00.006-05:00

Cally's bakery... Blue Ribbon Bakery &

Wild Cherry Cake

2022-08-09T15:56:00.001-04:00

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Orange Moonshine Cake

2022-08-06T15:43:00.003-04:00

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Keto Mini Cheesecakes

2022-04-22T18:26:00.000-04:00

Keto Mini Cheesecakes are low carb and sugar free! Want a dessert that is guilt free… look no further if you love cheesecake. This sugar free cheesecake taste just like the real deal. Add some sugar free caramel and sugar free whipped topping and you have a grand dessert in your hands and oh yes, you can eat it with your hands if you like.I have been hearing all the rave

Devils Food Skillet Sheet Cake with Cotton Candy Buttercream

2022-03-27T21:04:00.003-04:00

Devils Food Skillet Sheet Cake with Cotton Candy ButtercreamI found a new cast iron 12x14 inch sheet pan. So of course I made a cake 😍. This pan size will be nice for birthday cakes. The skillet is made by Bayou Classic 12 inch x 14 inch Cast Iron Pan that I bought from Bed Bath and Beyond. Just like my other cast iron skillets, this cake came out of the pan with ease leaving

Devils Food Skillet Cake

2022-03-12T15:36:00.001-05:00

Devils Food Skillet CakeThis is my favorite Devils Food Cake recipe just tweaked to make a single layer and baked in a skilletI don’t care for boxed chocolate cake and I am not a huge chocolate anything fan but this cake is the exception. There must be something with cocoa and coffee that just makes me crazy for this cake.I tried a different icing recipe for this cake than my usual

Peep Treats

2022-02-28T20:40:00.001-05:00

Peep TreatsRice Krispie Peep Treats are super easy to make and fun to eat. They are not as colorful as I thought they would be but the pastel speckles sure are pretty for an Easter treat. I did the layered method and put them in the oven to get all melted and gooey before I stirred them together. I did see a Kellogg’s recipe where they melted them on the stove before adding

Lasagna Soup

2022-02-23T21:18:00.001-05:00

Lasagna SoupIf you are a lasagna fan then you will love Lasagna Soup! When it’s cold out, soup is a go to meal for us.Soup and bread is a favorite. The picture above was my supper tonight. I had left overs :). In the picture you can see that my soup tonight was not very soupy. The pasta had actually soaked up the juice overnight. Tonight I should call this

Iced Sugar Cookies

2022-02-12T10:00:00.114-05:00

Happy Valentines DayOh my goodness these are the best sugar cookies ever! I swear I could eat everyone of them myself although there would probably be a fight if I did as Bill also thinks they are pretty tasty.Again for 2022 I am participating in the Good Cookie Food Bloggers’ Valentine’s Event. Food bloggers have helped raised over $100,000 for this Event over the last 6

Skillet Apple Crisp Pie

2022-02-06T16:43:00.001-05:00

Skillet Apple Crisp PieI was craving apple pie and I did not have any fresh apples. I did have a couple cans of apple pie filling though. I am not a real big fan of the big ol apple chunk slices in can filling. I emptied out the filling onto my cutting board and sliced all the apples in half… there that was better! No more big chunks and the apple slices now looked like

Strawberry Cake with Strawberry Cheesecake Chocolate Icing

2022-01-31T14:53:00.002-05:00

Strawberry Cake with Strawberry Cheesecake Chocolate Icing The cake was a super strawberry flavor! I used a Duncan Hines Strawberry Cake mix and then also added a half cup of puréed fresh strawberries. The addition purée also made the cake a really pretty pinky/red color.You can also see the strawberry purée in the cake slice, it’s the flecks of dark red colorFor the icing

Funfetti Cotton Candy Cupcakes

2022-01-23T17:45:00.003-05:00

Funfetti Cotton Candy Cupcakes For Christmas Billy and Amanda gifted me a new cookbook… Cake Confidence by Mandy Merrimack. I have picked up a lot of new tips for making cakes and cupcakes. One tip I had never thought of doing was to mix your cakes and cupcakes by hand with a whisk rather than a mixer. Doing so for your cakes helps make the cakes bake even. When I

Skillet Coffee Cake

2022-01-16T19:42:00.001-05:00

Skillet Coffee CakeHoping everyone had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We sure did. As always it was a busy time for us. Bill, Cally and I visited our most favorite place on earth…. Rocky Mountain National Park the first part of December.Wild Basin

Sweet Potato Casserole

2021-11-21T10:21:00.001-05:00

As a kid you would not have caught me eating a sweet potato but as an adult…. I love sweet potatoes fixed many ways!I am not sure if my taste buds have changed or if I just had it in my mind that sweet potatoes were no good? Although maybe it is all the yummy goodness I now add to sweet potatoes. Of course all sweet potatoes to me need to be coated with cinnamon sugar scrumptiousness

Corn Pudding

2021-11-19T21:11:00.000-05:00

Corn Pudding is one of my favorite holiday side dishes. Growing up we never made Corn Pudding or Scalloped Corn in my house. During the holidays my family always had corn that we froze during the summer, just heated up with melted butter. My first holiday with Bill was when I first had Scalloped Corn and I was hooked from then on out. Scalloped Corn is similar but made with

Easy White Chicken Chili

2021-11-12T15:43:00.004-05:00

This soup is Bill and I’s all time favorite soup. I have tweaked it over the years and now we have created a super fast recipe. The soup smells awesome while cooking. I simmer everything but the sour cream and whipping cream until it is nice and hot. Aldi’s brand fully cooked grilled chicken strips are my favorite Another Aldi’s brand favorite, Roasted Verde Salsa

Apple Oatmeal Skillet Cake

2021-11-07T13:19:00.002-05:00

As you can see …. I love this skillet so much that I made another skillet cake. You will be seeing more of my skillet cake creations in the future. The cake is a breeze to get out of the pan. With the new excitement for this pan maybe you will see me post more ;)This cake was also made with my goodies from Mercier Orchard. I used a Cameo Apple for this cake. It

Sweet Potato Skillet Cake

2021-11-05T14:12:00.002-04:00

Last weekend we were in Northern Georgia for a wedding. While the weather was not great we had a wonderful time spent with family. The fall colors on the trees was gorgeous. Here in Ohio there is not much color this year and a lot of the leaves are even still on the trees. I think it has been too warm this fall, although it is cold now, this morning it was 23 degrees.We