Category: Desserts

Easy Cake Mix Bars

Easy Cake Mix Bars

Here’s another easy Valentine’s Day treat to make for the kiddos (and me, of course)! These easy cake mix bars kind of remind me of a cross between a cookie and a chocolate, peanut butter brownie. Who wouldn’t love a bar made from a cake mix that tastes like a cross between a cookie and…


Carrot Cupcakes with Orange Glaze

Carrot Cupcakes | Life With Garnish

Oh my goodness, you guys! Have I got a yummy treat for you! I have been wanting to make Sigrid’s Carrot Cake recipe from The Pioneer Woman but have been putting it off because I didn’t want to use the cream cheese frosting that topped the cake. Now don’t get me wrong, I LOVE cream…


Red Velvet Cupcakes

Red Velvet Cupcakes | Life With Garnish

Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting made especially for Valentine’s Day…what could be better? These cupcakes are light, moist and taste sinfully yummy. And then to top it with a tangy yet oh so delicious cream cheese frosting? Ohhhh…its pure heaven in the palm of your hand! This recipe makes 24 cupcakes, which is…


Mini “Christmas Tree” Cupcakes

Mini "Christmas Tree" Cupcakes | Life With Garnish

Here’s a fun holiday project you can enjoy with your kids and/or grandkids. Its mini “Christmas Tree” cupcakes! And although the directions are really long it really didn’t take us that long to make, especially when I had 3 pairs of hands in the kitchen helping me. After the cupcakes are done it takes no…


Christmas Oreo Cookie Balls

Christmas Oreo Cookie Balls | Life With Garnish

(This post may contain affiliate links. Visit my disclosure page for a full disclosure.) Boy do I have a treat for you to-DAY! These little Christmas Oreo cookie balls are da-bomb, you guys! They’re just so cute, yummy and darn easy to make You can make them a one-bite or a two-bite size. Personally? I like the…


Mini Pumpkin Pies

Mini Pumpkin Pies | Life With Garnish

If you only make one dessert this Thanksgiving, be sure to give this recipe a try. The longest part of this recipe is waiting for the delicious balls of crust to chill. I’m not much on making my own homemade pie crust but this recipe is so easy and tastes so delicious. Especially when filled…


Coconut Banana Bread

Coconut Banana Bread | Life With Garnish

I love a good quick bread and this coconut banana bread recipe is one that my whole family loves. That in itself is a rare feat. It’s usually daddy not liking some ingredient or one or two of the kiddos not liking something OR daddy likes it but NONE of the kids do. Why can’t…


Pumpkin Cinnamon Swirl Cake

Pumpkin Cinnamon Swirl Cake | Life With Garnish

My kids put in a request for some homemade cinnamon rolls this weekend. As much as I love them too I just didn’t have the time or energy to make them. So, remembering how easy my pumpkin chocolate poke cake was to make I had an idea to combine the pumpkin cake with the flavors…


Pumpkin Chocolate Poke Cake

Pumpkin Chocolate Poke Cake | Life With Garnish

Boy do I have a treat for you guys today! This pumpkin chocolate poke cake is so easy and delicious that you will want to make it over and over! Because of the canned pumpkin in this recipe you won’t need to use any eggs, milk or oil. That’s right! No eggs, milk OR oil!…


Pear Crostata

Pear Crostata | Life With Garnish

Do you know what I love the most about cooking this recipe? Besides it being extremely simple and delicious, that is. The SMELL! This Pear Crostata recipe has THE most amazing smell when baking that I absolutely have a hard time waiting the entire 40 minutes for it to cook. Forget about the 10 minutes…

crostata

Candy Cookie Pops

Candy Cookie Pops

I know you guys have probably seen the cake pops that are all over the place right now. They seem to be pretty popular with folks right now. Well I wanted to make some for the kids as a Halloween treat until I saw all the steps involved. I’m a pretty impatient cook. I don’t…


Frozen Cheesecake Sandwiches

Frozen Cheesecake Sandwiches|Life With Garnish

I wanted to share these frozen cheesecake sandwiches with you before it became to cold for me to make and eat. Me and cold food with cold weather DO NOT MIX. Now my husband and kids on the other hand can eat frozen foods all year long, whether it’s 50° or 90° outside. But with…


Vanilla Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting

Vanilla Cupcake with Chocolate Frosting

It’s been some time since I posted a recipe using homemade baking mix. These vanilla cupcakes with chocolate frosting are a great reason to have this baking mix on hand as much as possible.  It literally took me less than 10 minutes to have this cupcake batter ready to go in the oven. Can’t beat…


Slow Cooker Peanut Clusters

slow cooker peanut clusters

If you’ve been reading my blog for any length of time you know how much I LOVE my slow cooker. It is THE best kitchen appliance I own. Slow cooker recipes are a person’s (my) way of making delicious meals without doing much more than throwing everything in a pot, walking away from said pot…


Lemon Cake

Lemon Cake|Life With Garnish

This lemon cake is another recipe that I make using my homemade baking mix. (If you’ve missed the other four recipes I’ll have a link to them added to the bottom of this post). It is a very dense cake and it is full of lemon flavor. With our heat index pushing 115° the past…