Holiday Sweets 101: Orange Cranberry Pound Cake Cupcakes w/Orange Cream Cheese Icing

Do you have your Thanksgiving desserts decided yet? No judgement here from me if you haven’t finished your menu yet, I mean I only realized yesterday that I have a crowd coming over and that Thanksgiving is less than a week away. I finalized my menu yesterday and made grocery list a mile long…now I’m …

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Holiday Sweets 101: Vanilla Sugared Cranberries Part Deux

Oh y’all…these cranberries!! I took them out of the refrigerator this morning SO EXCITED to dry & sugar coat them…but my dang drying rack grates were too wide!!  Like really??? So off to the shopping center I went…oh darn! Haaaa!!  Although I didn’t want to travel too far because I wanted to get back to …

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Holiday Sweets 101: Vanilla Sugared Cranberries

Tis the season for all things pumpkin AND cranberry!  I’m a HUGE fan of pumpkin. Like all things pumpkin. But I’m NOT a big fan of cranberries…bleh!  It’s a fruit y’all. You know how I feel about fruit…especially the tart, tangy, pucker up kind of fruit!  BUT…Oh my gracious!! Y’all I just can’t with these …

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Holiday Sweets 101: Brown Sugar Apple Butternut Squash Bundt Cake W/Brown Sugar Glaze

I figured there was no better time to kick off my sweets segment than the day after declaring 8 weeks of healthy holiday habits! And what better than a fall inspired Bundt cake. I love Bundt cakes…they shout holiday to me more than your average sheet cake. I bought a beautiful…like almost perfect…butternut squash at …

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Identity Crisis Averted…for now.

CHANGE. Change is inevitable.  Change inspires growth…at least that’s what is supposed to happen right? But what if everything you’ve known is changing? I’ve spent the last 25 years serving others…being a military wife, a mom, a grandmother, and a business owner. So many changes have happened around me, within me, and because of me. …

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