• Breakfast,  Cakes

    Lemon Scented Pull Apart Coffee Cake

    You had me at Lemon… and intrigued me with pull apart. This was so much fun to make and I felt very professional making it too!  A show stopper with an abundance of lemon flavor throughout. Don’t be afraid to try it! Lemon Scented Pull Apart Coffee Cake original recipe from Flo Braker author of Baking For All Occasions Sweet Yeast Dough About 2 3/4 cups (12 1/4 ounces) all-purpose flour 1/4 cup (1 3/4 ounces) granulated sugar 2 1/4 teaspoons (1 envelope) instant yeast 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/3 cup (2 1/2 fluid ounces) whole milk (I used 1 % milk) 2 ounces unsalted butter 1/4 cup (2 fluid ounces) water…

  • Bars,  Kid Friendly

    Easy Fruit Oatmeal Bars

    Having three kids and feeding them healthy can sometimes be an overwhelming task. I’m always on the search for healthy and easy snacks that can also be doubled so that I can freeze the additional batch for future use. My kids love several of the bars you can purchase from Trader Joe’s but I have to buy at minimum two boxes, hiding one, and having one last until dusk the day I purchase them. Six bars per box doesn’t last long in our house so I’ve been wanting to make homemade bars to save money. Last week I was craving oatmeal bars and also had a nice new jar of…