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Biscoff Butterscotch Chocolate Chip Blondies

I love chocolate. A lot. Like I reeeeally love chocolate. If I had to decide between all-chocolate desserts forever, or never having a chocolate dessert again, I would chose all-chocolate desserts forever. But luckily I don’t need to do that. And I can make desserts that are delicious in other flavor profiles. Enter: Biscoff Butterscotch…

Maple Date Scones

Maple Date Scones are the darling of the afternoon tea table. Oats and whole wheat flour keep them savory and wholesome, while dates and maple syrup add just the right amount of sweetness to satisfy your afternoon knackering for something yummy. Tea should be the new brunch. In the past year, brunch has became such…

Brown Butter Coffee Pistachio Chocolate Chip Cookies

There are so many flavors going on in these cookies: brown butter, coffee, pistachio, and chocolate. You’d think that’d be too many, right? Wrong. So wrong. Absolutely wrong. On a scale of 1 to wrong, that is wrong. All four flavors in these brown butter coffee pistachio chocolate chip cookies combine together beautifully: the nuttiness…

Chocolate-Peanut Butter Pretzel Cake

I (Molly) haven’t posted a recipe to this blog since November 24. November 24!! Technically last year. I can’t believe it. Between holiday baking and holiday traveling and, well, the holidays, I haven’t actually baked anything that wasn’t a Christmas cookie or hostess gift in weeks. It’s hard to believe it’s been that long. Where did the time…

The Baked Brownie (Vegan and Gluten-Free)

The Baked Brownie, but vegan and gluten-free. That’s all. I didn’t think this could be done, honestly. I’ve taken the Baked Brownie (named that because it’s from a bakery called Baked), the best brownie in the history of the world, and made it vegan. And gluten free. And they’re not awful. I feel like a wizard. Or…

14 Best Recipes of 2014

2014 has been quite the year for this blog. Over the course of the year, we’ve used roughly a million pounds of butter (totally accurate facts here), bought 100 bags of sugar, even more flour, and not to mention chocolate chips. And the amount of brownies we consumed is probably twice the average human being. But all…

Gingerbread Cupcakes with Eggnog Frosting

Gingerbread Cupcakes with eggnog frosting are a perfect holiday treat for anyone who doesn’t love the traditional gingerbread cookie thing. All the gingerbread flavor, none of the disappointingly crunchy cookie. We’ve made these Gingerbread Cupcakes once before, and they were amazing. But the frosting didn’t really work out how we anticipated. It was with mascarpone cheese…

Peppermint and Chocolate Candy Cane Cake

Peppermint and Chocolate Candy Cane Cake is alternating red velvet cake and vanilla cake shaped like a candy cane with peppermint frosting. Festive and fun for the holidays! “Peppermint, but only a little. Chocolate, but a lot.” These were my instructions, from my aforementioned friend at school who gives me her family’s homemade curry for…

Flourless Peppermint Hot Chocolate Brownies

The secret of Flourless Peppermint Hot Chocolate Brownies is 1) no flour in the brownies = fudgy as heck, 2) Andes mint chips sneaked into the brownie batter = double peppermint action. You’re looking at Peppermint Hot Chocolate in brownie form. “Haul out the holly. Put up the tree. Fill up the stocking. Put up…

Best Ever Frosted Sugar Cookies

Best Ever Frosted Sugar Cookies are thick, chewy, full of subtle vanilla flavor, positively covered in sprinkles, and the size of large bakery cookies (the only reasonable size for sugar cookies to be). Girl walks into a bakery. Girl is greeted by a case full of delectable treats of every size, shape, and kinds. Girl’s…