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How to Make a Rainbow Bundt Cake

Rainbow foods make me so happy–and so does this Rainbow Bundt Cake from my friend’s cookbook, My Little Pony Baking Book The cake is easy to make and it’s delicious.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups with Unicorn Frosting from thelittlekitchen.net

Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups with Unicorn Frosting

I had to make these chocolate chip cookie cups as well. Because when he drew that diagram for me, he also talked about the chocolate chip cookie ones.

I made these a few months back and shared them with friends and they were a HUGE HIT. I’m so excited to share these with you!

Chocolate chip cookie cups with frosting or icing…however you call it. But I had to, just had to add the unicorn frosting bit. What do you think?

Orange Tres Leches Cake

I love tres leches cakes…so I thought I would combine it with my love of Florida orange juice. And it turned out amazingly! Adding citrus to it…kicks it up another notch!

Heart-Shaped Pink Velvet Bundt Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting from thelittlekitchen.net

Heart-Shaped Pink Velvet Bundt Cake + Cookies for Kids’ Cancer

I’m excited to share this recipe with you and an event that I have been organizing behind the scenes. Let’s first talk about the event. I organized a bunch of food bloggers together to share Valentine’s Day…

Peanut Butter Cookie Cups with Dark Chocolate Ganache from thelittlekitchen.net

Peanut Butter Cookie Cups with Dark Chocolate Ganache

This post is sponsored by Land O’Lakes. First off, I just want to say how happy I am to share with you another recipe I developed in partnership with Land O’Lakes. I love working with them year…

Milk Chocolate Walnut Blondies from thelittlekitchen.net

Milk Chocolate Walnut Blondies

This post is sponsored by DOVE® Chocolate. It’s Thanksgiving week and it’s always a time I use to reflect on what I’m grateful for. I’m extremely grateful for my health, earlier this year I was really sick…

Strawberry Chocolate Hand Pies from thelittlekitchen.net

Strawberry Chocolate Hand Pies

This post is sponsored by Land O’Lakes. Oh hand pies…delicious little pies. Little pies that you can eat with your hands as a dessert or snack. Little pies that you can take them when you travel or…

Orange Bundt Cake with Dark Chocolate Ganache from thelittlekitchen.net

Orange Bundt Cake with Dark Chocolate Ganache

This post is sponsored by Florida Department of Citrus. I love to bake and I love the idea of baking with Florida orange juice. Have you baked with orange juice before? I would love to hear about…

Oreo Cupcakes from thelittlekitchen.net

Oreo Cupcakes

These oreo cupcakes are so dreamy…totally inspired by my favorite cupcake at Walt Disney World at the Boardwalk Bakery! They have an oreo mousse filling and a whipped cream frosting on top! I think about these cupcakes…

DoubleTree Hotel Chocolate Chip Cookies thelittlekitchen.net

DoubleTree Cookie Recipe

This DoubleTree cookie recipe is my absolute favorite chocolate cookie recipe. I have made these cookies hundreds of times, given them as gifts to friends and mailed them in care packages. These cookies are amazing. If you…

Peanut Butter Mousse Pie from thelittlekitchen.net

Peanut Butter Mousse Pie

This pie, you guyssssss. It’s a peanut butter mousse pie with marshmallow whipped cream and it’s from my friend Andie Mitchell‘s latest book,  Eating in the Middle. It’s beyond amazing, just like her. Her book, It Was…

How to Make Caramel Sauce from thelittlekitchen.net

How to Make Caramel Sauce

Do you have a cooking and/or baking bucket list? I have an ongoing list in my head…I think I need to write one up soon. But making caramel sauce was on it for a long time. I…

Strawberries and Cream Scones with White Chocolate Glaze from thelittlekitchen.net

Strawberries and Cream Scones with White Chocolate Drizzle

You guyssssss…I know so annoying but I’m so excited because this recipe took me a ridiculous number of tries to get right. And when I did, I kind of freaked out. So did my friend, Nina. 🙂…

Brown Butter Milk Chocolate Toffee Almond Cookies from thelittlekitchen.net

Brown Butter Milk Chocolate Toffee Almond Cookies

It’s that time of year again and I’m SO EXCITED to share with you this recipe! It’s a cookie that I have been wanting to try my hand out creating a recipe for after I had a…

Peanut Butter S'mores Cookie Bars from thelittlekitchen.net

Peanut Butter S’mores Cookie Bars

Today, I’m sharing with you a recipe from my friend, Joan’s blog Chocolate, Chocolate and More, her s’mores cookie bars. Last week, Joan passed away in her sleep. I can’t believe I’m even typing those words. It’s…

Vanilla Cupcakes with Pink Raspberry Buttercream from thelittlekitchen.net

Pink Raspberry Buttercream & 10,000 Cupcakes

I love cupcakes…so when KitchenAid asked me to participate in their 10,000 cupcakes campaign…to bring awareness to breast cancer during the month of October and to raise funds for Susan G. Komen for the Cure, I said…

Yesss, you need these in your life. I tweaked the original recipe to use almond milk! Vanilla Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream from thelittlekitchen.net

Vanilla Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream (made with almond milk!)

I was out of town for a week and came home yesterday! My first flight of the day was at 5:30am…since it was so early, I didn’t get much sleep. Honestly, when I have such an early…

These bars are so gooey and perfect...the sprinkles are a must! Funfetti Gooey Butter Shortbread Bars from thelittlekitchen.net

Funfetti Gooey Butter Shortbread Bars

Hi friends…it’s been a little quiet in this space. If you follow me on instagram, you know I have been traveling a lot. But I realized something over the last couple of weeks and even more so…

So easy to make and these are such a treat! French Toast Sticks with Maple Butter Dipping Sauce from The Little Kitchen thelittlekitchen.net

French Toast Sticks with Maple Butter Dipping Sauce

You know me, I’m all about butter…that’s why I’m so happy to be on the Land O’Lakes Kitchen Conversations panel, for the third year! Yay! The first time I had French toast? My older sister, Quyen, made…

this tres leches cake is simply amazing with the right amount of moisture and it’s not soggy! the coconut makes it even better! Coconut Tres Leches Cake from The Little Kitchen thelittlekitchen.net

Coconut Tres Leches Cake // Epcot Flower & Garden Festival

I love cake as much as the next person. But I never thought I could love a cake as much as this one. Last month, I was invited to the Epcot® International Flower & Garden Festival at Walt…

Strawberry Shortcake Donuts from thelittlekitchen.net

Fried Donut Strawberry Shortcakes

Recently, I had the opportunity to visit the Florida Strawberry Growers Association and learn all about Florida strawberries. When I arrived, we were all talking about strawberry shortcakes and someone mentioned having one on a fried donut….

Nutella Cream Cheese Crinkle Cookies from thelittlekitchen.net

Nutella Cream Cheese Crinkle Cookies

Ever since I made these cookies (well I should say when I got them right because it took several tries), I have been excited to share them with you! Nutella, cream cheese, chocolate and powdered sugar…you cannot…

Salted Caramel Brownie Trifles with Whipped Cream from thelittlekitchen.net

Salted Caramel Brownie Trifles with Whipped Cream

This past summer, we attended the 50th anniversary party for our neighbors. Being married for 50 years is a huge accomplishment and they are such a fun couple! It was a potluck and someone brought a brownie…

Chocolate Chip Pecan Pie Bars from thelittlekitchen.net

Chocolate Chip Pecan Pie Bars

For the holidays…I’m all about pecan pie. A longgg time ago, I think Curtis and I were married for a couple of years, I brought a pecan pie to my in-laws’ house for Thanksgiving dinner. It was…

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