• Food

    Easy Monkey Bread

    I’ve been told quite often, ‘I wish I could make cinnamon rolls, but I am too intimidated to try.’ The answer to that anxiety is monkey bread. If you have never heard of monkey bread, then let me tell you all about this tasty goodness. Monkey bread does not have bananas, or any other type of foods monkeys typically consume. It is called monkey bread because to eat it you pull it apart and it is so easy even a monkey could do it. It has all of the flavors of cinnamon rolls with a fraction of the prep or time. This is also a recipe that has only 5…

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    Mexican Hot Chocolate Cake Pops

    My absolute favorite hot chocolate flavor is Mexican Hot Chocolate. The juxtaposition of the chocolate with the cinnamon and a tiny bit of heat with cayenne pepper. Because of my not-so-secret love affair with these flavor combinations, I just knew I had to create a cake pop that paid homage to the tasty hot drink. Also…I somehow ended up with 50 million boxes of Red Hots in my pantry. Neither Matthew or I know exactly how I ended up with SO.MANY.BOXES of Red Hots. So when I was figuring out the details of these cake pops, I knew topping them with smashed Red Hots would provide the perfect heat for…