Mama's Fudge

Mama's Fudge

1 can evaporated milk

1 cube butter

4 cups sugar

Cook over medium heat and boil for 7 minutes (stirring constantly)

Remove from heat and stir in:

1 bag of chocolate chips

2 (8 oz) large hershey's bars

1 jar marshmallow cream

2 tsps vanilla

Nuts**if you want

Spread in buttered pan and let cool. Too easy! Too delicious. Too good to make more than once a year. 

Perfect Pie Crust

This is the 'perfect' pie crust recipe that we grew up using. It is versatile so you can make it thin or thicker and it's not too flaky. It makes enough for 4+ pies and freezes well as a dough ball or in the shape of your pie tin. MMmmmm enjoy!

Double Chocolate Whole Wheat Zucchini Bread

Hearty, healthy, moist, and fun! Chocolate meets green=beautiful. 

Recently my hubby and I celebrated our ten year anniversary. For a few of our meals, we decided to grocery shop at Sam's Club (I love Sam's Club) and buy a few things that we never buy. One of the things we bought were some of those jumbo muffins... you know, the huge cake-like muffins that apparently people eat for breakfast. (Yes, I know they are gross, ahh well, I admit, in the past I had kind of liked them. But hey...love makes you blind, right? Ok, fine it was just a dumb choice.) So for breakfast the next morning, I had a smoothie & a muffin. Just after I finished it, I looked at the nutrition label (no, I don't always want to know...) and I was completely SHOCKED and grossed out. One muffin contained 33grams of fat. THIRTY-THREE! That's like THREE snickers bars! (Yes, I just looked that up) I bake often and there are not many pre-packaged foods that we buy on a regular basis. I do sometimes buy yogurt and bagels, bread and tortillas. But, there is just NO way that the muffins or breads I make are anywhere near that bad for me. Even the richest of my chocolate cakes or desserts are NOT that high in fat! So, hey..does that make you feel better? 

"Spring Break" & Birthday Cake

Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Sarah. She was poor. Her birthday was coming up. Her birthday was in Spring Break. But she did'nt know what Birthday dinner she wanted. So her mom gave her clues. But...she didn't like those dinners. But her mom said she has to get used to things she didn't like. But she reminded her mom that it was her birthday and so she got to choose.

chocolate cake--classic

this has been a family favorite for several years... i've had so many compliments from this cake and my kids (and husband) totally devour it. i had been on the search to find a moist, non-fluffy, yet not too heavy chocolate cake and actually found the hershey's recipe to be much like what i was looking for... it is not only delicious the first day, but days 2, 3 & 4 it is still fantastic...but shhh, we don't really continue eating the cake each day after the initial event, right? :)

cheescake trifected - cake, sauce and crust!

I have been working on perfecting the art of cheesecake for... oh... about 3 years.  Finally, I think I can say, as far as we are concerned - it has been achieved.  (Of course, it probably won't stop me from tweaking.)

dirty bones and pumpkin puke

That looks disgusting!