Let me start with this:
A FREE eCookBook from The Best Dessert Recipes with one of my recipes in it: Peach Pineapple Dump Cake! Danielle, the editor over at The Best Dessert Recipes sent me an email the other day to tell me the eCookbook was now live. I’m so thrilled that they included my recipe in their book, so I’m sharing it with readers! Here’s a link to the FREE eCookbook, which is a downloadable PDF: FREE Dump Cake eCookbook.
Now, let me give you a little history about my Peach Pineapple Dump Cake:
Once upon a time, there was a young woman who loved to attend Tupperware parties. A great lover on all things Tupperware, she couldn’t get enough of it.
One day, Tupperware introduced their brand new microwaveable products and the Tupperware lady demonstrated one of the microwaveable pans by making an Apple Dump Cake. Well, the young woman never heard of Dump Cake before in her life and thought it was a truly delicious (and easy) dessert, so bought the microwaveable pan and many other pieces of Tupperware.
Once home, the young woman remembered a delicious pineapple cake made by a family friend. Now this pineapple cake wasn’t a Pineapple Upside Down Cake, but something entirely different. The problem was that the family friend, although much loved by all, would not share her recipe! She wanted to keep it a secret!
So, armed with the Dump Cake recipe idea, the young woman created her Peach Pineapple Dump Cake and a new family favorite was born!
The Peach Pineapple Dump Cake recipe post on this blog was written and photographed by Tiffany, my now retired blogging partner and niece. In the early days of our blogging career (2012), we took our photos with iPhones in poor kitchen lighting. This recipe is one of those early posts, so the photos are not that great.
But, here’s the thing: even though the photos aren’t that great, this post is the NUMBER ONE searched recipe on our site and brings in more traffic than any other post! While some bloggers have gone back through their blogs and updated old photos with new, improved photos, I’m hesitant to do this because:
- Tiffany and I agreed, in the early days, that we wanted our blog to reflect our growth as bloggers, writers, photographers, etc. So, we decided NOT to retake photos on old posts, but continue to move forward and create new posts.
- The photos in my Peach Pineapple Dump Cake recipe written by Tiffany are of her daughter, my great-niece, Princess Sweetie Pie, who is helping to make the Peach Pineapple Dump Cake. I love, love, love those photos (and I love, love, love her and Tiffany and sister, Princess P) and I don’t want to change them!
- I’m a firm believer that you “don’t fix it if it ain’t broke” and this post is, apparently, not broke!
- And, I was asked by The Best Dessert Recipes site if they could include it in their FREE eCookbook!
Okay, so now here are 11 more things I’m Sweet On in October 2014:
Glennon at Momastery is absolutely, frickin’ awesome! Let me say that again: absolutely.frickin.awesome. Check out her series of YouTube videos for the OWN network on her blog: The Five Habits Every Strong Woman Keeps. Trust me: it’s worth your time.
Oh man, oh man, oh man… I want to be the White on Rice couple when I grow up! Not really, but I do want to get my photography to their level!!! Their Killer Maple Bacon Apple Muffins look incredible!
And Rosie from Sweetapolita’s Midnight Pumpkin Layer Cake – oh my! So gorgeous!
I’ve had some trouble mastering cake pops. Maybe I need to move on and try marshmallow pops like Sommer’s from A Spicy Perspective: Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Pops. So cute!
Tieghan at Half Baked Harvest is amazing! Check out her Salted Caramel Apple Snickers Cake – gorgeous!
Theresa and Stephanie over at Momsmack made a video about carving fake pumpkins. It’s cute and funny and something I would do, Theresa, in the “overachiever” department before I realized I, too, was over my head {grin}! Check out: Things Got a Little Stabby While Carving Pumpkins.
Check out Introducing the Ultimate Four-Layer, Candy-Packed Halloween Ice Cream Cake from Max at Serious Eats. For any lover of ice cream, chocolate and candy, this is a “must try”!
These Crispy Smashed Potatoes with Avocado Garlic Aioli from Angela over at Oh, She Glows look like they’d do the trick steering me away from a sugar overload! Potatoes, Avocado and Garlic = YUM!
Check out Kevin & Amanda for beautiful travel photography PLUS a surprise for Amanda in Budapest: YOU GUYS!
One of my favorite writers (I use “writer” to describe her rather than “blogger” because that is what she is: a writer of beautiful, heart-wrenching prose sharing with brutal honesty her struggles with depression and addiction), Elizabeth at Flourish in Progress has been missing from her blog for 102 days. In How to Avoid Everything (Notes on Self Care), she puts her toes back in the blogging pool with a shocking revelation. In What If My Favorite Thing to Do Is Nothing? (Notes on Slug Life), she shares her daily struggle with depression with candor (and humor). Elizabeth – your fans love you. You are worthy. You are enough.
Need a giggle? Joanna at A Cup of Jo shared this post of hilarious idioms: Awesome Idioms from Around the World.
Happy Halloween!
Tootles,
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