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Pumpkin Pie Dip

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October 31, 2012

Happy Halloween! ‘Tis the season for pumpkin! As you may have noticed, I’ve been busy whipping up some pumpkin recipes these past few weeks. Soft pumpkin cookies with cream cheese frosting, pumpkin blondies – yum! Now, for the easiest pumpkin pie recipe of all – and still delicious – pumpkin…
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Peanut Butter + Chocolate = Homemade Buckeyes

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October 22, 2012

Each year for B’s birthday I make him a favorite treat, Buckeyes. What are Buckeyes? If you had asked me a few years ago, I would’ve just looked at you crazily. Buckeyes? I have no idea? I would’ve said. Now, being an Ohioan for five years (can you believe that?)…
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Running After A Stress Fracture(s)

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October 20, 2012

You may recall that I was diagnosed with not one, but multiple stress fractures after my Cleveland Marathon training. For some reason I got fractures in my tibia and my metatarsal area and was unable to actually run the day of the marathon. Yes, I trained and ran 20 miles…
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Soft Pumpkin Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

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October 17, 2012

A few weeks ago I kicked off the fall baking season with some pumpkin blondies. They were delicious. They were amazing. They were everything I had expected. BUT after the cookies were done, I still had 1 cup left of canned pumpkin. So what was I to do? If only…
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I Love Fall Weekends

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October 16, 2012

“I love fall. Except for that nagging feeling that winter is coming and then it’s going to suck when it snows and is cold.” ~ anonymous It’s already mid-October and I’ve been lacking in a fall weekend update post. Why? It’s not because I have nothing to update – it’s…
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A SOUP-er Roundup!

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October 12, 2012

The weather has definitely been getting colder in Cleveland, which means that I’ve not only been baking up a storm, but B and I have also been in the kitchen more to cook. Baked ziti? Homemade sauce? Spaghetti squash? Homemade pasta with home baked bread? You name it – if…
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Are you a Fire, Earth, Air or Water?

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October 9, 2012

Thoughts from my first Bridge Builders’ session NOTE: Much of this blog post originally appeared on the Fahlgren Mortine blog. Recently, I was fortunate enough to be accepted into the Cleveland Bridge Builders Class of 2013. According to the Cleveland Leadership Council, Bridge Builders is “a 10-month leadership development and civic engagement program…
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Pumpkin Butterscotch White Chip Bars

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October 5, 2012

Fall is here! Fall is here! Which means .. it’s time for baking with, cooking with and eating pumpkin! Earlier this week I mentioned that I had missed National Homemade Cookie Day. Fear not – I celebrated last night instead, baking some pumpkin butterscotch white chocolate chip cookies. AND since…
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Fall Cookie Inspiration (Pumpkin, Apple, Oatmeal and more)

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October 2, 2012

Yesterday was National Homemade Cookie Day! I can’t believe I missed it. I actually didn’t even have it on my radar until last night when my friend Devin messaged me, “Today is national homemade cookie day – sounds like a good opp for Melissa Bakes!” I dropped the ball and…
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Killing Fruit Flies

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September 30, 2012

B and I recently started making coffee in the mornings. After more than a year of being married, and having received a coffee maker as a wedding gift, we finally have started using it. And it’s great! B doesn’t have to spend $3-$4 on a Mocha each morning, and if…
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I’m Melissa

Welcome to I Crashed The Web — proof that I’ve been oversharing online since the early days of blogging. It started as a blog (back when that was cool), morphed into a mom blog (when that was cool), and now it’s my happy place for all the things I love: running, baking, reading, traveling and life with my family of five.