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Rhubarb Frozen Yogurt

Rhubarb Frozen Yogurt recipe from the Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams cookbook is tangy, creamy, sweet, and full of natural rhubarb flavor. A perfect treat for those warm days in spring and early summer. My goal in life is to someday be as good at something as Jeni is at making ice cream. I don’t know…

Peanut Butter Oreo Cupcakes

Peanut Butter Oreo Cupcakes are chocolate cupcakes swirled with peanut butter and frosted with an Oreo buttercream. I cannot believe that in the almost two years of us doing this blog, we only have one Oreo recipe to show for it! I guess we don’t bake with Oreo that often, but we should because they…

Ritz Nutella Peanut Butter Brownies

Ritz Cracker Nutella Brownies are inspired by our favorite childhood after-school snack: Ritz crackers slathered with Nutella and peanut butter. These gooey Nutella brownies have a peanut butter Ritz cracker crust, salty-sweet Ritz cracker crumb mixed in, and the crowning glory is the Ritz cracker ganache. When I was a kid, one of my favorite…

Biscoff Oatmeal Cookie Sandwiches

There’s a simple elegance about a good oatmeal cookie, don’t you think? Something wholesome about its unfussy sweetness that’s just so satisfying. As long as you don’t hide raisins in it, masquerading as chocolate chips…that’s just dastardly. To quote somebody witty on the internet, “Chocolate chips that look like raisins are the reason I have…

Nutella Brownies with Strawberry Buttercream

Chocolate and strawberry are a match made in heaven, so it’s no surprise that these Nutella Brownies with Strawberry Buttercream will utterly steal your heart. As the end of the year approaches – and with it the end of my college career! – I find myself feeling sentimental, getting preemptively nostalgic. One of the ways…

Lemon Blueberry Cake with Coconut Cream Cheese Frosting

Happy spring! All this great weather is making me think it’s finally here. Officially. I had originally planned some decadent chocolate-y coconut almond cupcakes (very similar to these) to make for Easter, but then the weather turned nice and I wanted something more fruity and spring-y. So I made this Lemon Blueberry Cake with Coconut Cream…

Lemon Pistachio Ice Cream Sandwiches

Lemon Pistachio Ice Cream Sandwiches are a light, sweet spring dessert. Tender lemon whoopie pies sandwiched around a rich, flavorful pistachio ice cream. The bright sweetness of the lemon pairs beautifully with the earthy, smooth nuttiness of the pistachio ice cream. Do you ever go through phases in your food and what you eat? I…

Almond Joy Cupcakes with Cadbury Mini Egg Nest

I’m a sentimental person. I get aggressively nostalgic for past times, and I associate them with certain music, books, movies, tastes… This spring, I’ve been extremely nostalgic for my time in London. The trigger? Sunshine and warm weather. I’m serious. Some of the best times I spent in London happened after the cloudy skies finally…

Cocoa Puffs Brownies

Cocoa Puffs Brownies combine the best parts of childhood breakfast and after-school snack. The malty brownie base (secret ingredient: Ovaltine!) mimics the taste of Cocoa Puffs cereal, the fluffy meringue frosting serves as the sweet milk at the bottom of the bowl, and then we top them with as many Cocoa Puffs as you can fit….

Nutella Pretzel Magic Bars

Nutella Pretzel Magic Bars have a brown butter blondie base, sweet-and-salty crunchy pretzel crumb, and an ooey-gooey Nutella topping. These Nutella Pretzel Magic Bars started simple: Nutella. That’s it. We just wanted to work with Nutella. But…what to make? We discussed what to bake in the car while driving home one day and we spent…