Our homemade Sprinkle Cookies start with our soft and chewy sugar cookie dough! No rolling needed, these drop sugar cookies are beyond easy, packed with colorful sprinkles, and always delicious! The only thing better than a soft, thick, buttery sugar cookie is edible sugar cookie dough. But my husband disagrees. He’d rather have the baked
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Apple Cranberry Pie
This Apple Cranberry Pie is the perfect blend of sweet apple pie with little pops of tart cranberries, all wrapped up in our ultra flaky (and easy!) homemade pie crust. Ooh, boy, are y’all in for a treat today! It’s pie time! We love a apple pie that looks like the crust might just burst
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Sweet Potato Cookies with Browned Butter Glaze
So, I would like to make a new rule about TV. That rule is that the TV people ban the commercials for The Conjuring. Look, I saw the movie. It wasn’t even that scary. I didn’t scream or pee my pants once, which is saying something. But this week my husband has been out of
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Skinny Sweet Potato Donuts with Maple Glaze
These skinny sweet potato donuts are low in calories with zero fat! You don’t even need a mixer for this one. Just grab a bowl and a whisk and you can have healthy homemade baked donuts in less than 20 minutes! You guys are never going to believe what I did! I turned an incredibly
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Brown Butter Rice Krispie Treats
These Browned Butter Rice Krispie Treats take the classic RKT recipe to the next level with rich, nutty, golden browned butter and a sweet browned butter glaze! This is one of my most requested recipes to bring to family events! I know, I know. Rice Krispies Treats are so 1977. And yet, here I am
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So, You Wanna Be A Better Photographer – Week 2 – The Basics of Manual
(Week 1 can be found here.) Hello, again! Everyone got their big girl (or boy) panties on? We’re ready to dive into the nitty gritty of manual mode! Let’s do this. First things first, I’m going to break down the exposure triangle for you. What’s exposure? Well, my friend, exposure is the amount of light
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Fudge
This cookie dough fudge is such a hit with everyone who tries it! Guys. I know. You’re thinking fudge is a Christmas thing. Well, I’m here to tell you that isn’t true. You can make and eat fudge any time of year. I mean, you’re an adult. You make the rules. Isn’t that how it
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Roasted Spaghetti Squash with Bacon, Garlic, and Parmesan
This roasted spaghetti squash is topped with bacon, garlic, and Parmesan for a simple family friendly dinner. Let me show you how to cook spaghetti squash that your whole family will devour! Alright, look…I know that I’m here to share family-friendly, kid-friendly, easy peasy recipes for busy moms. Then I go and throw up a roasted spaghetti
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Maple Cupcakes with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting
What’s this, you say? Cupcakes? On Buns In My Oven? Yeah, I know. I can’t bake a cake to save my life, and yet here I am. With cake. I hope we all know what this means…if I can do it, so can you. But, why in the world would I risk death and destruction
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Apple Cider Pancakes with Cinnamon Syrup
It’s October, you guys. My most favorite time of the year. I love Fall. I love Halloween. I love pumpkins and apples and crisp, cool air. I thought we’d celebrate with these Fall pancakes. I randomly grabbed a jug of apple cider at the store the other day without knowing how I’d put it to
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Apple Pancakes
Our Apple Pancakes start with thick and fluffy homemade pancakes. They get topped off with our simple brown sugar cinnamon apples and then we drizzle everything with caramel sauce for the perfect fall breakfast. I went to the grocery store the other day, as I do every single day of my life it seems, and
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Apple Fritters
Do you guys know what I just realized? It’s September. You guys know why this is exciting, right? September is when all of the good stuff returns. By good stuff I mean Fall television. Apple picking. Cool, crisp air. Pumpkin bars. Reese’s pumpkins. I can’t decide which I’m most excited about. Fall television is waaaaaaaay
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Sopapilla Cheesecake Bars
These Sopapilla Cheesecake Bars are a rich, decadent dessert that comes together so easy with a crescent roll dough crust, sweetened cream cheese, and a cinnamon sugar topping! Totally irresistible! It’s probably no surprise that guests at my house get fed lots of desserts. After all, I’m constantly coming up with new dessert recipes and
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Crockpot Dulce De Leche (One Ingredient!)
This Dulce De Leche recipe is made with sweetened condensed milk for a sweet, gooey, and oh so easy treat. Our sweetened condensed milk caramel is made in the crockpot with just one ingredient. Have you ever heard of the goodness that is dulce de leche? Because if not, I’m about to change your life
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Beignets
What is a beignet? How do you pronounce beignet? Doesn’t this picture make you want to know the answer? Pin It I’m going to go ahead and admit that before I started food blogging I led a pretty sheltered life. There were so many recipes, so many ingredients, so many types of food that I
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Brown Butter Lemon Garlic Pasta
This Lemon Garlic Pasta is tossed with nutty browned butter, plenty of garlic, and Parmesan cheese for a simple pasta dish that will have you wanting seconds. The bold flavors of lemon shine through in this simple dish and the recipe takes just 20 minutes! One of my kids is straight up obsessed with pasta
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Apple Cider Donuts
Apple cider donuts, are among the best easy fried donuts you can make. If you’ve been a reader for long, you know I am a donut addict. Oh, hi. You look kinda hungry. Don’t worry. I made donuts. Again. And, again. Also…again. And one more time, but no link to that one since I still
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Online Buzz
Want more Buns? I can do that. Below is a list of places that I’ve been featured. Babble’s Top 100 Food Blogs of 2013 Better Homes and Gardens Delish Dish Fine Cooking: Best of the Blogs Babble Huffington Post Pull Apart Breads RedBook Safest Choice Darling Dozen Blogger The Huffington Post Funfetti Recipes Parent Society
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Yellow Cake with Chocolate Frosting
This yellow cake with chocolate frosting is so fun with all the confetti sprinkles! Perfect for any celebration! Whatever your reason for wanting cake, you can’t go wrong with a confetti cake! We made our simple yellow cake – moist, tender, and everything a cake shold be – and stirred in some confetti (aka
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Sausage Dressing
Sausage dressing, or sausage stuffing if that’s what your family calls it, is my favorite side dish at Thanksgiving each year. My family makes the perfect recipe and I’m happy to share it with you! If you are anything like I was before I learned about sausage dressing, you might be asking if I’m about
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