Choose Your Own Adventure Chocolate Truffles

a platter of chocolate truffles

These Chocolate Truffles make the perfect gift! Select your favorite chocolate, flavoring, and topping to roll them in. They can be personalized for you or a lucky friend. Handmade Happiness Nothing beats a homemade gift. Especially when you tailor said gift to the recipient! Sure, it may be easier to pick up a bottle of wine or a candle, but how special would you feelRead more ->

Chai Spiced Tres Leches Cake

This Chai Spiced Tres Leches Cake is sweet, creamy, and irresistible. It’s topped with roasted and pears adding a delicious layer of sweetness. This Chai Spiced Tres Leches Cake was featured in Wendy’s Kitchen Memoir.  Tried this recipe and loved it? Use the hashtag #sohappyyoulikedit and tag @sohappyyoulikedit on social media so I can see your creations! Let’s be friends! Find me on Instagram, Facebook,Read more ->

Apple Frangipane Tarts

Apple Frangipane Tarts

These Apple Frangipane Tarts are absolutely stunning! Delicate frangipane filling is topped with thinly sliced apples in a delicate pie crust shell. Packed with delectable almond flavor! Apple Frangipane Tart Few desserts make me swoon as much as almond-flavored treats do. The sweet, delicate, and simple flavor is one that I can’t get enough of. These Apple Frangipane Tarts highlight use a basic pie dough,Read more ->

Dad’s Chocolate Pudding Cake

Dad's Favorite Chocolate Pudding Cake

My Dad’s Chocolate Pudding Cake is chocolate heaven! This dessert is part cake, part rich pudding. Served with ice cream or a dollop of whipped cream, this recipe is a classic. This Chocolate Pudding Cake was featured in my Dad’s Kitchen Memoir.  Tried this recipe and loved it? Use the hashtag #sohappyyoulikedit and tag @sohappyyoulikedit on social media so I can see your creations! Let’sRead more ->

Sweets And Treats To Try This Fall

This collection of Sweets and Treats to Try This Fall has something for everyone! Cookies, cupcakes, cheesecake, and cocktails get a dose of Fall with the quintessential flavors of the season. Everyone will find something to love on this list! Pumpkin Brown Butter Blondies: These scrumptious squares combine the warm flavors of pumpkin and brown butter. Try to have just one! Oatmeal Cream Pies withRead more ->

Pumpkin Brown Butter Blondies

These Pumpkin Brown Butter Blondies are the ultimate pumpkin treat! Sweet pumpkin and inviting brown butter level up these delicious cookie bars. Pumpkin Season When the sun starts setting just a little earlier, the dark bringing with it a crisp coolness, one thing’s for certain: Fall is coming. A season filled with all sorts of quintessential seasonal flavors like apple, cinnamon, nutmeg, fig, and ofRead more ->

Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp

Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp This Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp is the epitome of summer: tart rhubarb is balanced with strawberries and sweetened with maple syrup. I didn’t realize how polarizing rhubarb was until a few years ago. In my experience and upbringing, rhubarb was the epitome of a seasonal treat: rhubarb muffins, cakes, breads, Sangria…rhubarb recipes have always been something to relish before the colorful rhizome’s seasonRead more ->

Homemade Graham Crackers

Homemade Graham Crackers Homemade Graham Crackers! While these delicious graham cracker cookies will take your s’more to the next level, they’re equally yummy on their own!  They’re packed with delicious ingredients like wheat germ, honey, and brown sugar. Suffice to say…they’re better than the store bought versions (in my humble opinion!). Add them to a Build Your Own S’mores Platter, or enjoy them on theirRead more ->

Italian Lemon Cake

This Italian Lemon Cake is pure lemon perfection. A slightly sweet lemon cake is drenched in a lemon syrup offering mouth puckering goodness in every bite.  Amalfi Sunshine I had the very great privilege of traveling to the Amalfi Coast last summer, the summer of 2019: right before Covid 19 completely uprooted and shifted how we all approach traveling. To say I’m grateful to haveRead more ->

National Ice Cream Month

July is National Ice Cream Month! Celebrate this tasty food holiday with one of the recipes in this roundup. Whether it’s fruity, chocolatey, dairy free, boozy, or healthy, there’s something for everyone! I Scream, You Scream! July is National Ice Cream Month! And, making it even sweeter, Sunday, July 19th, 2020 is National Ice Cream Day! Two fantastic reasons to grab a cool creamy treatRead more ->