Hey friends, Last week I was asked to bake a key lime pie for a friend's birthday celebration. Up until that point, I had never baked a key lime pie, so it was really important to me to whip up the perfect recipe for this special occasion! If you're like me, key lime pie ...
The Real Reason I Bake
“There is no ‘should’ or ‘should not’ when it comes to having feelings. They’re part of who we are and their origins are beyond our control. When we can believe that, we may find it easier to make constructive choices about what to do with those feelings.” - ...
Party Cookies!
This week we baked a recipe called "Party Cookies" which came from a 1974 Rotary Club cookbook in my hometown of Marietta, Georgia. Quite frankly, this may be one of the best cookie recipes I've come across, and the fact that it came from an old southern Rotary Club cookbook is ...
Southern Fudge Pie
We used to host Christmas day lunch at our house in Marietta, Georgia every year. The day would go like this... I would wake my sweet dad up at four in the morning (sorry Daddy), open presents over the course of about ten minutes, and proceed to eat the candy Santa left in our ...
The Most Important Ingredient of All
Hello sweet friends, This is a post for all of the young readers of Pie Crust and Pixie Dust. No grown-ups allowed! ;) This week I wanted to write a post about my very special secret ingredient. This is the one ingredient that I've put in every recipe I've ever baked, and ...
Easy Egg Casserole
Hey friends! If you need to bake breakfast for a crowd, this is easy egg casserole is perfect. This recipe is a lot like a quiche but it uses refrigerated biscuit dough for the crust instead of an actual crust. The result? A breakfast casserole so delicious, you will never ...
If at first you don’t succeed
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. - Julie Andrews When I was four years old, my mom enrolled me in swimming lessons at the local YMCA. My class was made up of around ten children, and we were learning about floating and basic strokes (why yes, I ...
We’re Going to Bake it Through This!
Hello sweet friends, Here we sit in the thick of the Coronavirus quarantine, and many of us are running out of things to do with our kids. In this no-frills post, I am rounding up a few of our easiest recipes on the blog. Hopefully this will give you a something fun to do ...
Self-Serve Snacks for Kids
Hey friends, Typically our recipes are fairly whimsical and wild, but in this post I'm focusing on recipes that are fundamentally helpful for parents. Recipes that we can easily cook in advance, freeze, and make available for our kids to SERVE THEMSELVES! The concept of ...
So Much Love to Give
Hello there, lovely! Valentine's Day is one of my favorite days of the entire year. It has nothing to do with lame greeting cards, plastic roses, or fat angel-baby cherubs, it has to do with love. Love is my self-proclaimed area of expertise. My experience with ...
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