Welcome to the Taste Creations Blog Hop! Since Mother's Day is this month, my friends and I are sharing a Mother's Day brunch menu. My contribution is a quick and easy appetizer idea. This cranberry basil goat cheese crackers appetizer is so delicious, but simple to put together. This simple Mother's Day appetizer recipe is bound to be a hit! Be sure to check below to see all the recipes that we are sharing in this blog hop! Easy and Quick Cranberry and Basil Goat Cheese Appetizers The stars of these appetizers are the shredded basil, dried Cranberries and the herbed soft goat Continue reading...
Carrot Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Icing
This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Welcome to the Taste Creations blog hop! Once a month my blogging friends and I get together and share recipes along a particular theme. Today we are sharing spring desserts! My daughters and husband like carrot cake, so I decided to make some fun and easy spring carrot cupcakes! They are topped with a delicious cream cheese frosting that is easy and quick to whip together. Fun! These cupcakes came out moist and delicious and are filled with grated carrots and are flavored with nutmeg. I tend to prefer making cupcakes over a big cake. Continue reading...
Rainbow St. Patrick’s Day Confetti Cupcakes
This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Happy St. Patrick's Day, everyone! (A little early.) When my daughters were small, "Lucky the Leprechaun" used to visit our home and leave small gifts for my girls. Now that my daughters are 17 and don't believe in leprechauns anymore, I've found other ways to celebrate St. Patrick's Day together! For today's Tasty Tuesday, I am sharing a delicious and easy recipe for Rainbow St. Patrick's Day Confetti Cupcakes - vanilla cupcakes topped with buttercream icing. The fun part about these cupcakes are that they have a "confetti" surprise inside Continue reading...
Matcha Shamrock Cake
This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Welcome to Tasty Tuesday! On Tuesdays I like to share recipes that my family loves. Today I am sharing something very special -- a matcha shamrock cake that my sweet daughter made from scratch and decorated herself. I think the cake is so delicious and amazing! My daughters love matcha. In case you don't know what matcha is, matcha is a finely ground powder of green tea leaves. You can use it to make tea, but you can also use it to flavor other things - like this cake! My daughters especially like matcha bubble teas. The matcha flavor in this Continue reading...
Pink Strawberry Cupcakes with Buttercream Icing
This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Welcome to Tasty Tuesday! On Tuesdays, I like to share recipes I love. I have come to a revelation lately. While I like strawberries, I LOVE strawberry desserts! Something about strawberries makes them taste fantastic in baked goods. Today I am sharing a recipe for easy and delicious strawberry cupcakes topped with buttercream icing. I made these cupcakes by using frozen strawberries to make a puree that I added to the cupcake batter. The puree gives the cupcakes a delightful strawberry taste! It's convenient that this recipe uses frozen Continue reading...
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bars
This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Happy National Peanut Butter Lovers Day! To celebrate this fun holiday, my blogging friends and I are getting together to share recipes that include peanut butter! My friends and I in the Taste Creations blog hop group get together the first Monday of every month to share recipes together. Today snuck up on me. I didn't realize that March 1 is today! So I had to come up with a recipe yesterday with items I already had on hand. This recipes requires very few ingredients and things that you are likely to already have in your pantry and Continue reading...
Slow Cooker Sausage & Mushroom Baked Ziti
This is an easy baked pasta dish that cooks up easily in the slow cooker, and is filled with pasta, sausage and mushrooms. This recipe is adapted from the slow cooker baked ziti recipe by The Recipe Rebel. Happy Monday, everyone! We have been getting so much snow lately in New Jersey. The weather has been cold, too, so my family and I have been wanting some warm comfort food! So recently I cooked up a big slow cooker full of tasty baked ziti with a hearty tomato sauce, mushrooms and sausage. I found this delicious recipe at The Recipe Rebel and adapted it a little by adding more Continue reading...
Pink KitKat Sweetheart Cake
This post contains Amazon affiliate links at no cost to you. This past weekend I wanted to bake a Valentine's Day cake for my family. I thought it would be fun to make a pink KitKat cake - I've seen KitKat cakes on Pinterest and thought they looked great! It turns out one of my twin daughters wanted to do some baking, so she made the cake instead! She did an awesome job! Although I planned this cake for Valentine's Day, I think it'd be awesome for an anniversary or birthday, too! Plus, it's simple to make - this cake is made with cake mix and store bought icing. (Although my daughter did Continue reading...
Pink Strawberry Cheesecake Pie
Welcome to the Taste Creations blog hop! I can't believe that it's February already! My blogging friends and I get together the first of each month to share recipes. Today we are sharing pink recipes for Valentine's Day! I am sharing a Pink Strawberry Cheesecake Pie. After I made this pie, one of my daughters declared that it has become one of her favorites! Most of this pie recipe is no bake, except for the easy to make (and amazing) pretzel crust. Pink Strawberry Cheesecake Pie Recipe My Pink Strawberry Cheesecake Pie recipe is quite simple to make and only requires a few ingredients. Continue reading...
Dark Chocolate Mocha Hot Cocoa Bomb Recipe
This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Valentine's Day is coming up, so I decided to make some sweet treats for my family! We like to sip hot cocoa while watching Netflix Faves like "The Queens Gambit" and "The Good Place," so I decided to make some fun DIY hot cocoa bombs. I love a good cafe mocha, so I decided to make some Valentine's Day dark chocolate mocha hot cocoa bombs! My good friend, Carrie of Curly Crafty Mom, is also sharing a recipe for Valentine's Day hot cocoa bombs today! She made her hot cocoa mix pink with pretty pink hearts! (Scroll down to the bottom of this Continue reading...