Chocolate Pecan Tart  When I plan my meals each week, I almost always start by flipping through my manila folders stuffed with rec...

 According to Ryan, this dessert could win contests. Now, he’s not by any means a contest judge, but living in our house, the boy has tas...

My mom is kind of an entertainer extraordinaire. She's the woman who manages to beautifully decorate the (spotless) house, complete w...

I had an extra pie crust to use up after making the tomato pie and I was tempted to make the tomato pie again, but I was out of mozzare...

Strawberries are back. There are huge stacks of them at the grocery store each week, bright red berries in the prime of their ripeness. ...

Any time I've ever read  anything  about phyllo dough--whether in a magazine, a cookbook, or another blog, it always mentions how diff...

Tell me I’m not the only one who gets satisfaction out of the words “I told you so”. Granted, these four little words have the...

Forgive me. Today you're stuck putting up with a slightly blurry, unappetizing photo. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, blog photography i...

It's as if the recipe creators at Women's Day magazine decide to create this recipe exclusively for The Sweets Life, knowing it w...

Ryan’s a fruit dessert lover through and through. Some of his favorite desserts to date are my grandma’s apple pie and last year’s birth...

I still have a hard time thinking of myself as a true "cook" or "baker"....maybe it's because I still misread recipe...

Paige, Ashley, and I have been getting together on a monthly basis for over a year now. We all look forward to our girl's dinners becaus...

When I say rich, what comes to mind? Donald Trump? Alfredo sauce? A full-bodied wine? A Rolex? Richie Rich? (that one was Ryan's!) ...

This was an awesome discovery of a recipe! I actually read Kersten's  blog regularly (it's where I got the recipe for these oreo...