This year you won’t catch me using any of those packages of dusty instant cocoa powder with the tiny fake marshmallows — not when I can warm guests up in style with these luxuriously rich hot chocolate recipes. Chai Tea Recipes Apple Cider Recipes

Bake one kind of cookie and end up with a dozen different types.

Pumpkin Cake Pops are moist bites of cake-on-a-stick that make perfect gifts or Halloween party refreshments. Cinnamon White Chocolate Pumpkins Recipe Pumpkin Spice Truffles Recipe

It’s weird that pie can be relatively hard to make, and yet we have the expression “easy as pie.” Maybe the person who coined the phrase was thinking of this pie in particular?

You can make these candies in 20 minutes. And somehow, making candy yourself seems even more virtuous than eating just plain old sugar-free candy you bought at the store

My solution for all of us is to start making sugar-free candy. It won’t stop me from eating all your treats behind your back, but it will allow us to consume less sugar while we’re fighting over snacks.

Revealing the frightening yet funny truth, Kara DioGuardi has dished the details about the time she unknowingly ate a plate of pot brownies from Paula Abdul’s house! While visiting the “Lopez Tonight” show, the “Platinum Hit” star explained that, while staying at Paula’s pad, she returned home to a batch of delicious-looking brownies. Soothing her sweet tooth, the former “American Idol” judge went ahead and scooped them up. That’s when things got interesting, as Kara told, “Six hours later I was like ‘heeey what going on, how you doing?’,” she jokes.

I am in favor of any country that is renowned for its chocolate. To me, this indicates having good priorities in general

Start with an Irish breakfast, continue with hale and hearty main dishes, and finish up with sweets and drinks.

Here’s something I learned from this round-up of delicious St. Patrick’s Day drinks: There is such a thing as Guinness gelato. I can die happy now