Tag: dessert

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…


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…

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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…


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…


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…


Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread

pumpkin chocolate chip bread

I’ve been seeing pumpkin recipes popping up all over the blog world the past week or so and although my kids and I love pumpkin anytime of year it’s unusual to start seeing these recipes until fall. I figured since this pumpkin chocolate chip bread is one of the recipes I was going to share…


Pear Cobbler

pear cobbler

The pear tree is finally ready for picking! Woohoo! I’ve been waiting on this ALL summer. Not only is this Pear Cobbler recipe one of my favorite desserts, it’s also #2 on my list of recipes to share with you using my homemade baking mix. The two hardest parts about making this cobbler is (1)…


S’mores Bars

S'mores Bars

What is it about S’mores this year? Not only have I seen them everywhere but so have my kids. I don’t know why we are seeing more of these different recipes than years past but maybe it’s on a trend cycle. You know, like the bell bottoms jeans? Popular, then not popular for 30 years,…


Lemon Pudding Cupcakes with Strawberry Lemon Frosting

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Making these cupcakes over the weekend with my daughter brought back memories of my childhood. Not necessarily the cooking and spending time together part (my mom and I are both introverts so we would spend time apart rather than together) but the tartness of these wonderfully delicious cupcakes. When I would get my weekly allowance…

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