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Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream Cake

Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream Cake uses Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams pumpkin ice cream recipe with a pie crust ice cream adapted from Momofuku Milk Bar’s graham cracker crust ice cream recipe, topped with Milk Bar pretzel crumb and salted caramel. Regular pumpkin pie just doesn’t compare. Do you like pumpkin pie? I’ve met very few…

Twix Cookies

Twix Cookies are made with a thick chocolate peanut butter cookie base, filled with chunks of Twix bar (or any other favorite candy bar). Soft baked, dense, and loaded with candy bar goodness! These Twix Cookies were incredible. I could spend a whole post writing a poem to these cookies. But these Twix Cookies also…

Basil Dark Chocolate Scones

Basil and dark chocolate are an unusual pairing, but if you brave the unexpected and taste these Basil Dark Chocolate Scones, you’ll be rewarded with a savory-sweet breakfast treat that will surprise and delight. You trust us, right? Enough that if I put the words “basil” and “dark chocolate” side by side in Basil Dark…

Carrot Zucchini Bread with Maple Cream Cheese Glaze

Carrots add an extra bit of sweetness to the already-moist zucchini bread foundation in this recipe for Carrot Zucchini Bread. Hiding vegetables in a delicious, flavorful quick bread smothered in a luscious maple cream cheese glaze is pretty genius, and will make your breakfast (and morning) a little more special. Confession: I’m kind of obsessed with…

Butterfinger Crunch Brownie Cups

The Butterfinger frosting on these Butterfinger Crunch Brownie Cups is made out of a magical combination of melted candy corn and peanut butter that somehow tastes EXACTLY like Butterfinger. A perfect Halloween dessert. Halloween, similar to Christmas, is a very magical holiday. Wizards, vampires, spooky things. In this case, our magic is mixing candy corn…

Oatmeal Sandwich Cookies

Oatmeal Sandwich Cookies with peanut butter filling from Joy the Baker’s Homemade Decadence cookbook. Soft, chewy oatmeal cookies with smooth and creamy peanut butter frosting. Absolute perfection. Joy the Baker’s new cookbook Homemade Decadence came out last week, and these cookies were the first thing I made. It was a difficult decision, to be sure,…

Inside-Out Pumpkin Cheesecake Cupcakes

In the last few years, fall has become so super-saturated with pumpkin that it feels like it’s impossible to do anything new with it anymore. Pumpkin coffee? Done. Pumpkin cookies? Done. Pumpkin cupcakes? Done. Pumpkin chapstick? Probably done, but probably not too tasty. But we keep wanting more…more and more and more, so much more…

Apple Butter Cheesecake Bars

Apple butter is a perfect fall flavor that I think is just so overlooked. We’re so inundated with pumpkin and squash and cinnamon and stuff that apple butter gets forgotten. Poor little apple butter. The quietly brilliant spread that just doesn’t get the attention or acknowledgement it deserves. Well I am here to give attention…

Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Banana Filling

Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Banana Filling are a delicious triage of chocolate, peanut butter, and banana flavor. A moist chocolate cupcake is filled with a peanut butter banana custard filling, then frosted with a peanut butter buttercream. Last week, I did a presentation at my school about this blog. My school’s kinda tiny and…

Pumpkin Cookie Swirled Brownies

Pumpkin Cookie Swirled Brownies are brownies swirled with pumpkin cinnamon chip cookie dough. Chewy cookie + pumpkin flavor + dense chocolate brownie = autumnal heaven in dessert form. By now, you’ve probably had to read too many posts of people fangirling over pumpkin and pumpkin season and how much they love it and how they…