One of The Maestro’s favorite recipes is this easy lemon cake. It’s super easy because you just have to doctor up a basic yellow cake mix, and it’s really good, too. I need a good dose of springtime in my life, so we made this cake a couple weeks ago, and it was just the…
Love BYU mint brownies? Here’s the secret recipe! Our favorite brownies are the ones you can buy on BYU campus—the yummy BYU mint brownies. Over the years, my husband has done his best to dissect and perfect a recipe that comes pretty darn close to the ones you can buy at the CougarEat, and I…
These delicious, melt-in-your-mouth holiday cookies are topped with a peppermint glaze and crushed candy canes. The perfect cookie to leave for Santa Claus! This is my very favorite Christmas cookie recipe. You guys, they are so good-they literally melt in your mouth! They aren’t called Peppermint Meltaways for nothing! We love them. Maybe a little…
If you follow me on Pinterest you might know that I have an obsession with pumpkin. I freaking love it. My Pinterest board called “Pumpkin is My Favorite Food” has (gulp) 767 pins on it. Yes. Seven HUNDRED and sixty-seven. As if I would ever make them all. And, obviously, about 750 of them are…
This pear pie is so good you’ll definitely want to add it to your Thanksgiving pie menu! Thanksgiving is coming, and that means one thing to me: Pie. Turkey is great and all, but I am all about the pie on Turkey Day. So I call it Pie Day instead. Last year was my first…
If you’re a Mormon, you understand the phenomenon that is Jell-O salad. You may not actually like it, but you do understand it. Or maybe you don’t understand it, but I’m pretty confident that you’ve at least eaten it once or twice. When I was a kid, my mom always made the same green Jell-O…
Lately, Joel and I have been doing our weekly date on Thursday mornings. Somewhat unconventional I realize, but it saves us the babysitter trouble, Sophia’s in school and (obviously) Joel doesn’t have to teach. It has actually been wonderful and we can’t wait for Thursday to come around each week. This past Thursday we decided…
You can all close your mouths now. You know, the mouths that are open in shock because I, self professed non cook, am posting a recipe. There are two things you need to remember: 1. It’s not that I can’t cook, it’s just that I prefer not to. 2. If I must cook, I prefer…