Well hello April!  Spring time is when Houston shines!  Our brief winter is a distant memory and yet we have not reached peak Houston humidity or heat.  For that reason, I love to hang out outdoors on patios with family and friends before it gets too hot.   Of course, a visit to the patio requires a cocktail!  Enter my new creation, a Passion Fruit Ginger Cocktail! So this weekend, I created the Passion Fruit Ginger Cocktail while hanging out on my parents patio.  To make my life easier, I added the Passion Fruit, Welch's Refrigerated Cocktail as [...]

So I am back to creating great dessert recipes for the blog!  The older I get, the more I relate to one of my aunts.  She can cook just about anything, but her speciality is baking.   Like her, that is what I enjoy!  With Christmas around the corner, I decided to go for some Christmas style cookies and came up with the idea for Brown Sugar Cookies with Candy Canes. Hear me out on why this is an amazing combination that you NEED for the holidays!  First of all, brown sugar over white sugar all day everyday!  It brings a [...]

I had a vision for a cornbread that included sweet potato flavors and honey.    So I set out to making it essentially playing on my favorite Krusteaz Honey Cornbread.   Generally, when I play around with recipes, one or two takes and I have it down.   Who would have thought that cornbread of all things would be so tricky!  I mean most of us grew up with Jiffy that only required an egg to get it going.  Simple right?? Wrong!  So after three tries I finally have perfected by Sweet Potato Honey Cornbread Recipe just in time for Thanksgiving! Check [...]

The official first day of fall is tomorrow September 22nd and you know what that means for a foodie?! It's SWEET POTATO TIME!  That's right, I said sweet potato NOT pumpkin.  Nothing says fall for me more like a sweet potato. Yes, I skip right past the pumpkin spice aisle because that is not my life LOL.  Since the rest of the country is not on the same bandwagon as me, that requires me to make my own sweet potato dishes.   As I scrolled through Pinterest and saw pumpkin spice cakes, I was instantly inspired to make a sweet [...]

For those who follow me on Instagram, you may have been watching my chocolate cake progress over the last few months! I have used a few Pinterest recipes for the chocolate cake and they have all turned out well.  For the buttercream and ganache though, I keep toying with it to get the flavor and consistencies I like!  The ganache is still a work in process because it's not dripping the way I want it to *heavy sighs*.  This go around, I made a cake for my sister's birthday and it was a beauty plus the chocolate buttercream came out PERFECT. [...]