This past weekend, I attended Food Blog Forum at Disney World’s Grand Floridian Resort. The excitement for this conference had been building ever since the registration 3 months ago filled up in less than 10 minutes! Food bloggers attending this conference have been chatting in a Facebook group for a few months with introductions, questions and conference tips. We had been anxiously waiting for this weekend to start to see old friends and meet new ones we’d only known on line. Some bloggers got there on Thursday or early Friday to be able to make the most of the experience. There were trips to the parks for some and just relaxing by the pool for others. The welcome reception on Friday night was our first “official” event with everyone buzzing around and many of us just getting to meet each other for the first time.
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If you like rich and buttery cookies that melt in your mouth, you’ve got to add these cookies to your must make list right now. With 3 sticks of butter in them, you know they’ve just got to be good! That’s right…3 sticks! When I was looking for something easy to make for the recent Food Blogger Bake Sale, I remembered these freeze and slice cookies that I hadn’t made in quite some time. The original recipe was just a plain cookie that I made a few tweaks to as well as added toffee bits and walnuts. I can’t even begin to tell you how good these cookies turned out…we couldn’t keep out of them!
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The National Food Blogger Bake Sale to benefit Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign took place this past Saturday with food bloggers all across the country holding bake sales to support the fight against childhood hunger. All proceeds from the bake sales are donated to this worthy cause. I’m glad I’ve had the chance to participate in this annual bake sale with other local food bloggers for three years now.
The Central Florida Food Blogger Bake Sale took place in Winter Garden during the Winter Garden Harvest Festival. There were all sorts of vendors and we were fortunate to be able to hold our bake sale in this new location. We were there bright and early on Saturday morning to set up and price our baked goods before the 9:00 festival start time. It rained lightly on and off until early afternoon, but that didn’t dampen our spirits or deter us from bringing customers in. Not long before it was time to break down, we marked everything down and had buy one/get one free deals going on. You should have seen the people loading up on treats then…everybody loves a bargain!
Take a look at the scrumptious goodies my food blogging friends brought to the bake sale (my contribution is shown above).
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Do you like pralines? How about popcorn? You’ve probably never thought of eating these at the same time, but hold on to your hats y’all. This new recipe combines both of these favorites into one scrumptious treat that’s irresistible for anyone who loves a sweet & salty combination.
Since there have been so many yummy popcorn recipes on Pinterest lately, I decided to come up with one of my own to add to the mix. A few years ago, I made a cake with a fabulous brown sugar glaze from the folks at Southern Living that tasted just like pralines and thought this glaze would be perfect to put on popcorn. Now…what else could I add? The pecan sticky bun granola (from Target) popped into my head…that’s it! Of course I had to have a few bites of the warm popcorn before mixing this up. Once this was spread out on the pan, I could hardly wait for it to cool. Oh my, this stuff is sooo good and hard to stay out of! I had to give some away before I consumed it all! Enjoy.
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When you think of s’mores, do you have visions of sitting around a campfire roasting marshmallows to put on a piece of chocolate and then quickly smush between graham crackers? Mmmm…I can taste them now! What do you do when you have a craving for s’mores and there’s no campfire around (or we’re in the heat of summer when you wouldn’t even think of starting a fire)? I’ve got the answer with these Chewy S’mores Blondies…a blondie and s’more all wrapped into one! Is your mouth watering yet?
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