Author: Tina

One Layer Chocolate Cake

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Are you done with your holiday shopping? I had all my shopping done by December 4th.  I’m not trying to toot my horn or anything.  😉 Although I haven’t wrapped them yet…. I hate that part.  I’m glad that I got my shopping done earlier so that I could focus on entertaining friends and family.  Earlier this month we had friends over and I served a triple layer chocolate pie for dessert.  It’s long gone but I’m still wishing that I had some around.  Gosh, it was fabulous. This past weekend we had some other friends over and I made this …

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Our Home for Christmas

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I love decorating our home for Christmas.  Every year I do things slightly differently.  You may recognize some of the decorations from last year or the year before, but I also bought some new things from Michael’s store and Pottery Barn. This year I went with a mostly white wintry theme. I arranged some faux branches to make this arrangement.  It took me three attempts before I was sort of happy with it.  You can’t really tell from the photo but it’s got sparkles on the leaves.  Pretty much everything I bought has glitter on it so needless to say I …

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Triple Layer Chocolate Pie

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Guys, this pie is everything! This is probably the wrong time of the year to share a no-bake pie with you.  You know, because everyone wants those kinds of recipes in the summer time to avoid turning on the oven.  But think of it this way… if you make this pie now then you can use the oven time for all the other foods on your list, like cookies.  I’m always thinking.  😉 So first and foremost, this pie is ridiculously delicious.  I’m kind of obsessed with it because it’s so tasty. It’s hard to go wrong with chocolate and …

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Peanut Butter Blossoms

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It’s officially cookie baking season!  Aka, “bake until your back and feet hurt and you run out of eggs or flour or butter” season. I love to bake cookies for my friends and family for the holidays.  I mean cookies, yum, hello.  I bake different ones each year but I always, always, always bake some kind of peanut butter and chocolate cookie.  This year I’m baking these classic peanut butter blossoms. I bet that you’ve seen these cookies before and maybe you’ve even made them.  They’re the kind of cookie that you make every holiday because it’s tradition (and because they’re …

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The Easiest Appetizer Ever

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Every holiday season I start by telling myself that I’m going not going to go overboard for the holidays but somehow that never happens.  Can anyone else relate?  This year I’m determined to make it happen.  One way to do that is to skip making appetizers and go straight to the easiest appetizer spread ever, cheese and crackers (with a few additional goodies).  Ina Garten has shown similar ideas on some of her Food Network shows.  In fact she gives great entertaining advice.  I figure if cheese and crackers are good enough for Ina’s guests then they’re good enough for mine.  🙂 I’ve …

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