sweet inspiration & fun baking ideas

Baking Sweet Memories I love this time of year. When fall rolls around I get even more excited about baking than I do any other time of the year. Summer ends and the real [...] Monday, September 24, 2012

Sweet Tarts I decided I need to add a little more fruit to my diet. My pie diet, anyway. Berries. Black and blue. And raspberries, too. I think I love you. These are [...] Monday, July 23, 2012

Peanut Butter Pie This is a pie for Mikey. It’s a peanut butter pie to honor Jennifer Perillo’s husband.  He passed away suddenly from a heart attack. I [...] Friday, August 12, 2011

My kind of pie Beautiful on the outside… and glorious on the inside The great part about this recipe is that it makes two pies. TWO! Great to bake and take. The [...] Monday, November 22, 2010

Mama’s Pecan Pies This is my grandmother’s recipe. It’s perfect. It’s special. And it makes three pecan pies. It will also make three recipients very [...] Monday, December 14, 2009

Time for Pie With another Thanksgiving right around the corner, I figured it was finally time to make my first real pie crust instead of using one from the freezer [...] Monday, November 23, 2009

Pumpkin Pie Bites I’ve been in a mini-mood lately when it comes to baking and these bite-sized pies met my big craving. They are really, really easy. Let me show ya. [...] Monday, September 28, 2009

Easy as Pie I know. Genius, right. Perfectly-portioned, tiny pies … and on lollipop sticks, too. I can’t take the credit for this idea, although I would love [...] Sunday, August 2, 2009

Butterscotch, baby! First up, let me tell you that the Easter Pops are coming. Just not today. I made some cute ones this weekend, but I didn’t finish them up until [...] Monday, March 23, 2009

Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie… Oh My! There’s nothing like a good chocolate chip cookie… unless of course, if it’s super-sized and more than an inch thick. So when I found this [...] Thursday, April 17, 2008

Mini Cherry Cutie Pies These little pies were so much fun to make. I got the idea from Not Martha. She has a really good entry about how to make these on her blog. I’ll [...] Tuesday, November 13, 2007