Homemade mac & cheese!

Mixin' it up a little bit! Here is my first savory posting! Homemade (baked) mac & cheese!

Now, I planned on taking a picture of it right when it came out of the oven, but I forgot and within 5 minutes of the pan sitting on the stove, it looked like this:


So I guess everyone liked it!! Way better than the stuff from a box! Gooey and delicious!

YUM cookies. warning, they are addicitive.

Soo I've definitely made these before, but they are SO good I had to post again. Chocolate peanut butter cookies with peanut m&ms. Last time I made 'em with peanut butter m&ms. I loveee them both! and they disappear literally in the blink of an eye when I leave them out!

Dog bone shaped cookies / chocolate mint cookies

Alright so I've had a few reasons to bake lately. I made these dog-bone shaped chocolate chip cookies for a presentation in my Travel Marketing class (it made sense I promise- if you were there you know! :) haha) They were delicious!



So a few days after I made those cookies, I made these! Pi Beta Phi (my sorority) and Chi Omega had a fundraising bake sale/BBQ, so I made these for us to sell! People, including me, LOVED them! Everyone kept saying they tasted just like a thin mint! Will definitely make again!

Healthier Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

I've made my traditional banana bread recipe many, many times, and usually keep it pretty much the same. However, I decided it's time to try to make some of my baking a little healthier. So, rather than make the chocolate chip banana bread I usually make, I made a few modifications: Whole wheat flour instead off all-purpose flour, and extra banana & a little applesauce to replace the butter (this might sound weird if you've never heard of it, but in baking applesauce is a common health substitute for butter). Now, to really make it "healthy," the chocolate chips should probably be omitted, but I'm all about balance, and of course, all about chocolate. It tasted DELICIOUS-- even more moist than the original, and wonderful texture. I think I will make it this way from now on! perfect.

Scrumptious healthy muffins!

These are super low-fat bran muffins! I'm trying to create some healthier recipes. The only fat in these comes from using whole eggs, and the base is mainly bran flakes. There is flour in them, so next time I will use whole wheat to improve the health benefits even more. They came out great! Tasty, flavorful, and very moist - yum :)

Red Velvet Cupcakes

fantastic, homemade, from scratch (duh) Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting. Personally, I think they are far better than any of those you'd get at the expensive cupcake places (I'll leave names out), but you should try for yourself :)

MY NEW FAVORITE COOKIE!!!

Check these out! They are light chocolate peanut butter cookies with peanut butter cups, peanut butter m&ms (valentines day colors), and Hershey bar chucks! SO GOOD! quite possibly my new favorite.

mini banana chocolate chip muffins

I made these for my travel marketing class :)
i make them alllllll the time! same recipe as the banana bread i always make! delicious

Chocolate cookies with reeses pieces!

I looove these cookies! chocolate cookies loaded with reeses pieces candy- yumm

Chocolate oreo cake

This cake should look kind of familiar. I've posted about it a few times, but I will never make any other chocolate cake. The first picture was when I made the chocolate cake and frosted it with cookies 'n' cream frosting (vanilla frosting with oreos mixed in) and topped with more oreos, some of which are in the shape of an A (for my friend Andria's birthday).

Then other people who had seen the cake but didn't get to eat it wanted some, so I decided to make another one the next weekend just for fun (and let's get real, I wanted more of it too) SO, the same chocolate cake recipe, but I frosted it with half chocolate cookies 'n' cream frosting, and half of the frosting I made for Andria's cake, the regular cookies 'n' cream.

amazing. best cake ever. (but you must like chocolate in order to enjoy the full experience ;))