Sandra Baumgarten

About Sandra Baumgarten

Sandra Baumgarten writes about dessert recipes & trends here. She also enjoys blogging about her kitchen adventures on her personal blog, Hearty Appletite. Fun Fact: She has eaten a bowl of chocolate chip mint ice cream nearly every signle night for the past 10 years.

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Interview with Stephanie Frazier Grimm from Couture Wedding Design

I remember when I got engaged. It was a time of excitement, delicious butterflies in my stomach from venturing into the unknown of wedding planning, and a bit of an overwhelming feeling of not knowing quite what to do!  This is where I would have loved to have had Stephanie Frazier Grimm, from Couture Wedding [...]

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Sugar Coated Marshmallow Kabobs

Do you love Peeps?  Do you love that it’s almost Easter and Peeps are hitting and disappearing from the store shelves at rapid speeds?  Now you can have Peeps year round, without having to stockpile boxes of them from the store!  From Hungry Happenings, Beth brings you Marshmallow Birthday Candle Kabobs that ”taste so much like [...]

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Homemade Caramel Sauce

For anyone who has botched their homemade caramel sauce, or who has been intimidated to try making it, this Caramel Sauce Tutorial from Bakers Royale is for you!  With clear directions, and step-by-step pictures, you’ll know exactly when to do what.  Like she says,”it’s like riding a bike. Once you nail it, you won’t forget [...]

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Vanilla Rose Water Cupcakes

For blushing brides at their bridal showers, to girl days with manis and pedis, these delicate and beautiful Vanilla Rose Water Cupcakes from Sprinkle Bakes‘ guest post at ModCloth are sure to please!  ”Candied rose petals are a snap to make, but they look luxe,” says Heather, the creator of these glittery and sugar petaled [...]

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Gooey Nutella Butter Cake

Described by Let’s Dish as “one of the best chocolate cakes I have ever made,” this Gooey Nutella Butter Cake offers the richness of chocolate cake, combined with the gooey center of a lava cake.  With the ease of a cake mix, Nutella, and a couple staple ingredients, you’ll be able to whip this up [...]

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Orange Butter

Looooove!!!  Can you just imagine this sweet and savory Orange Butter melting over a stack of pancakes, hot rolls, steamed greens, or baked into muffins?  Thanks to Kitchen Kemistry, the possibilites are endless, and the recipe is simple.  Little butter, little honey, little orange zest–voila!  A swirl of yumminess is a dish!!! Read more: Orange [...]

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Chocolate Coated Peeps

Sugar dipped in sugar, coated in sugar!  Cute and chirpy Chocolate Coated Peeps from Your Home Based Mom would be a welcomed addition to my Easter basket for sure.  Simple and easy to make, these would be great afternoon fun to make with your kids.  Grab some Peeps, melting chocolate, and sprinkles, and you’re set [...]

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Nutella Pound Cake Panini

It’s late.  I’m craving dessert, and this gorgeous Nutella Pound Cake Panini from Circle B Kitchen is strutting its gooey chocolatey goodness in front of me.  I’m nearly tempted to be a midnight chef and whip up a batch of pound cake, grill it on my George Foreman and slather it with Nutella!  As her [...]

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Cream Puff Doughnut

As one commenter said about these scrumptious and drool-worthy Cream Puff Doughnuts from Spoon Fork Bacon, “I just want to throw myself into a pile of these creamy delicious doughnuts!”  Oh, a pile of fluffy vanilla pastry cream sounds heavenly!  Made without yeast, “the recipe is super simple [since] the ”no yeast” route…totally simplifies the [...]

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