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Spotlight of the Week!

Welcome to featuring you!  Our Spotlight of the Week goes to Pumpkins & Peonies for sharing these Puppy Peanut Butter Cookie Sandwiches.  My dogs are my babies as well and I love making them homemade treats.  I can't wait to try this recipe!  The party was a huge success due to all of you.  I greatly appreciate you taking the time to share.  I hope you enjoy the features!

Chocolate Italian Love Cake

This delicious Chocolate Italian Love Cake is perfect for your loved one!

I love a good cake, and I also love when they look pretty too!  I've been wanting to make this Chocolate Italian Love Cake for quite awhile so I figured Valentine's Day would be the perfect time.  This cake is really simple to make, but the presentation looks like it took a lot of time and effort.  When you start out, you put the cake batter on the bottom of the pan with the cheese layer on top; while it's baking the layers magically switch!  Then you top it off with a rich mousse like frosting and it's pure heaven...simple, delicious and pretty!

Cafe' au Lait Pudding from Date Night In by Ashley Rodriguez

My husband and I got married when were 20 and have been together for 26 years!  We now have four kids so time with "just the two of us" is limited.  One of our favorite times is when the kids are in bed and we get to sit and talk about everything.  I normally make us a little snack so one of the first recipes I tried from "Date Night In" is Cafe' au Lait Pudding; it is amazing!  In this book you'll find over 120 recipes to nourish your relationship and features 25 date-worthy occasions spread out among the four seasons.

Caramel Apple Bread Pudding

 

 

 

The other day a friend asked if I had any recipes for bread pudding; I didn't and I was surprised that I hadn't made this before.  I'm not fond of soggy desserts so I'm sure this was part of the reason.  I decided I would give it a try, but I wanted to make one that uses simple ingredients that we all have on hand and it couldn't turn out soggy!  Since it's Fall I decided to turn it into a seasonal dish by adding some apples and a warm caramel sauce.  It turned out perfect and I look forward to making this a lot more!

Mayonnaise & Pudding Cupcakes...any flavor you want!

 

Cupcakes are always a hit and it's one of my favorite treats to make!  The other day I wanted to make some, however I don't have cake mixes on hand and I ran out of oil and only had a little bit of butter...yikes!  So I started experimenting and boy am I glad I did.  I came up with a recipe that is so easy, you normally have all the ingredients at home and you can make them any flavor you want!  What's the secret?  You add sugar-free pudding mix and mayonnaise.  These cupcakes came out so moist and delicious.  I've made them twice already and I love them plain, but the kids like icing on top, so any way you eat them they are sure to please.  I hope you enjoy!

No-Yeast Vanilla Cinnamon Sticky Rolls (in about an hour!)

 

Our family loves cinnamon rolls and sticky buns, but sometimes I don't have the time to wait for the dough to rise.  That's where this recipe comes to the rescue!  I combined my cinnamon roll recipe and sticky bun recipe together to make these delicious rolls.  They require no yeast so you don't have to wait forever...in about an hour, you can have delicious, gooey, sticky cinnamon rolls.  To put them over the top make sure you lather them up with lots of cream cheese frosting! 

Watergate Salad made with Cream Cheese

 

I wanted to make a green dessert for this weekend and while I was looking through some cookbooks I found a recipe for Watergate Salad.   I don't recall ever having this salad, but it sounded interesting so I decided to come up with my own version!  I'm not too fond of marshmallows being in dessert salads so I omitted those as well as the nuts.  I figured the marshmallows added a creaminess and since I took them out I needed something to replace it.  Being that I have an obsession with cream cheese, I figured that would be perfect.  I made this with low-fat cream cheese and lite cool whip and you can't tell at all!  I love the color of this salad, how simple it is to prepare and how it ended up tasting...I hope you enjoy!

Slow-Cooker Chocolate Pudding Cake

 

 

Once again I get the pleasure of reviewing the newest cookbook from Gooseberry Patch; Slow Cooking All Year Round.  Having four kids involved in extracurricular activities there are plenty of nights that I turn to my slow cooker to have dinner ready for us when we return home.  I'm sure a lot of you can relate!  When I review a Gooseberry Patch cookbook I always like to give something "extra" to go along with the book.  It's my way of saying thank you for reading Flour Me With Love.  This time I knew the perfect gift would be a slow cooker and Hamilton Beach has graciously sent me the Deluxe Set & Forget 6 Quart Digital Slow Cooker and they are also offering one to you.  You can win the cookbook and slow cooker!   

Foodie Fake Out: Sand Dessert

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I'm posting a day earlier this week because I was invited to participate in a Foodie Fake Out!  Stephanie from Back for Seconds asked a few of us bloggers to come up with a recipe that looks like something else.  I was so excited because I love stuff like this...especially those little hamburgers that are made out of cookies :)  I decided to make Sand Dessert...a dessert that looks like sand, however it's made with cookies, cream cheese, pudding and cool whip!  It's a snap to put together since it doesn't need to bake and it makes quite an impression at parties...I hope you enjoy!

Layali Libnan

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Today I'd like to introduce you to my friend Seta.  She has a wonderful blog called dish-away that specializes in International Cuisine.  We thought it would be a great idea to do a guest post on each others blog as a way to introduce our reader's to a whole new world of flavors...I hope you enjoy! 

Banana Cream Pudding

 

 

If you need a dessert that feeds a crowd and is simple to make then this is the one to try!  This has cookies in it and I'm not crazy about soggy cookies.  So to not have that happen, I sneak in a little bit of banana cream pudding mix.  This enhances the banana flavor and there are no soggy cookies from sitting so long.   I usually leave ours in the fridge for about two hours and that seems perfect for us.  If you want softer cookies then let it set up longer. The longer it sits, the softer the cookies!

The Best of 2011

 

It's hard to believe that another year has come and gone! Although I must say, it has been a wonderful one.  To celebrate I thought I'd count down the ten most popular posts of 2011.  There were some close calls as to which would end up in second, third and fourth.  However, the most popular post won by a landslide.  I hope you enjoy the countdown and I wish you all a very Happy New Year!