This week I baked some scones. I’ve had a taste for chocolate chips scones for a few weeks but never got around to making them. Well this week I finally gave in and decided to give it a try. I found a recipe on pinterest and adapted it based on the ingredients I had on…
Baking
Hello Kitty Cupcakes
I recently had the opportunity to make some Hello Kitty Cupcakes for a birthday party. While I enjoyed making them, it’s something I won’t take on so lightly in the future. Here’s some of the tools and steps I used to make my cupcakes. I’ll also share where you can buy the products to make…
Ultimate Lemon Cake
My husband is a huge fan of anything with lemons in it. He loves Lemon Bars, Cakes and Cookies. It always seems like I need to kick it up a notch with lemon flavor with anything I make for him. As much as he loves lemon though the first time I baked a lemon cake…
Baking with Coconut Oil Kelapo Review
I grew up in the Caribbean and coconuts are no stranger to me at all. I have very fond memories of drinking coconut water straight from the coconut tree. I remember watching my mother make a sweet treat called “Sugar Cake” using coconuts as the base. It was just grated coconuts, sugar, sometimes coloring if you wanted…
Copycat Cheddar Bay Biscuits
Copycat Cheddar Bay Biscuits I absolutely love the Cheddar Bay Biscuits at Red Lobster and sometime I go to the restaurant just so I can some to bring home with me. The problem is they really don’t heat up well. It also helps that it’s one of my son’s favorite restaurants so whenever we give the kids…
White Velvet Cupcakes
I am working on getting better at posting the cupcakes I bake but I have been baking weekly cupcakes like I said I would. I love these white velvet cupcakes, I adapted them from Rose’s Heavenly Cakes. I had to change some things to make it easier for me to bake since some of the…
Chocolate Chip Muffins
I recently shared on my baking fan page Nicki’s Sweet Treats that I was planning on making a different cupcake a week fifty two weeks. While I have to admit already it’s been a bit harder than I thought I am still working on sticking as close to the challenge as possible. That’s still my goal…
Cookies and Cream Cupcakes
I was so excited about making these cookies and cream cupcakes. Its was so easy and they tasted great. I used about eight cookies in mines but you can add more or use less in your recipe. Its all about the amount to cookies you want to see in your finished product. I thought…
Cranberry Bliss Bars
Since the holidays are approaching you may end up with left over cranberries from your stuffing recipe or something like that. I found a great recipe for a copy cat version of Cranberry Bliss Bars that are sold at Starbucks. I was super excited because its a blondie recipe and I love brownies, cookies and…
Sooner Specials
Sooner Specials – White Chocolate Chips & Cranberry Cookies Recipe Type: Cookies Cuisine: Sweets Author: Nickida Stephens Prep time: 15 mins Cook time: 10 mins Total time: 25 mins Serves: 12 people I wanted to make a cookie to have when we were watching OU football games. Since their colors are crimson and creme I…
Tinkerbell Doll Cake
This past weekend I had the honor of making a birthday cake for a great little girl. She wanted a Tinkerbell cake but her mother as didn’t want to cut her cake at the party so I offered to make her a small sheet cake for the party as a bonus. Here are some pictures…
Rose’s Red Velvet Cake
Yesterday I was baking red velvet cupcakes for a Breast Cancer Awareness bake sale. I wanted to try a new recipe and decided to check out my Rose’s Heavenly Cake book. Of course there was a recipe listed there and since I liked the white velvet cake recipe in her book, I decided to give…
Key Lime Cupcakes
Since we are already in fall and the temps are starting to fall already I wanted to bake some Key Lime Cupcakes one last time before switching to fall themed baking. I will note that I never use key limes, I don’t have access to them in Baltimore so I just use regular limes and…
Peanut Butter Blossoms
Last year I was given the chance to host a cookie exchange courtesy of Hershey Chocolates. I had a great time baking up all the different cookies and sharing it with family and friends. I know normally with a cookie swap each person attending would bake a certain kind of cookie and bake enough so…
Pink Lemonade Cupcakes… Yum?????
When we lived in Winston Salem, NC. We visited a bakery in Old Salem during the summer and they had Pink Lemonade cake squares on sale. We got two the first time we visited and my hubby loved it so much every time we were in the area we would make sure and grab a…
