A food blog balancing sweet treats & healthy eats.
This Matcha Strawberry Coffee Cake came from a video I saw of Justine Snacks making a matcha coffee cake that looked and sounded very good. She kept it traditional with cinnamon filling, but I felt a little bit of strawberry would be a nice addition! Putting matcha in coffee cake seemed pretty ingenious. I think…
This will shock no one, but I don’t really like Starbucks. The coffee is very standard, unless you get one of their fancy drinks. But those fancy drinks all have approximately 3x the amount of daily recommended sugar, which I don’t want in my morning drink! On the few occasions I go into a Starbucks…
Once again, I received an ad for some Levain Chocolate Coffee Toffee Cookies that I could not get in Minneapolis, and was not going to pay to ship them to my house. So what is a girl to do? Bake her own. It’s really quite simple. Levain really knows how to do a solid seasonal…
Introducing… *drum roll*… For the first time ever… The Batter Thickens has a guest chef… the third sibling: Ethan! My brother didn’t write this post, but he made the food and has given me lots of quotes to include, so you can hear about it directly from the chef! It may not look like fine…
My first memories of pi day are, unfortunately, not great. It was one of the many times during my childhood education where learning the concept of something did not exactly pan out in practice. It’s up there with the time I was told we’d be doing an experiment where we “make clouds” inside of 2-liter…
These bagels, like many things on this blog, are directly inspired by a GBBO episode. My mom and I were watching an episode from the 2020 season, and they made rainbow bagels. While I saw no reason to go through the rigamarole of dyeing bagel dough five different colors… I wanted to try making homemade…
There was a phase for a while on this blog where both Molly and I were posting “Brownie Doctor” recipes that zhuzh-ed up brownies mixes. It was an excellent phase! I don’t know whether I just bake more variety of things, or have replaced brownie mix with homemade brownies, but I feel like I haven’t…
The idea for this triple chocolate tarte has been knocking around in my brain for a while. It came about because I’ve been wanting to try this brownie caramel from Milk Bar, and I have also been wanting to make something in a tarte pan. And ALSO I’ve just been craving plain ol’ chocolate recently….