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Classic Croissants

A classic croissants recipe for beginners. Croissants seem intimidating and difficult, but this recipe makes them accessible. You don’t have to be a professional baker to master this recipe for classic croissants! I’ve found that there are many pros to having baking be one of your hobbies: You always have dessert around the house. So…

Chocolate Covered Coffee Bean Cookies

Chocolate covered espresso beans give these chewy Chocolate Covered Coffee Bean Cookies a satisfying crunch, and the bitterness from the coffee bean adds a nice counterbalance to the sweetness of the chocolate chips. An afternoon treat you can truly call “brain food.” Where do you get your inspiration from? For baking, my inspiration comes from…

Maple Olive Oil Banana Bread

Whole wheat flour and olive oil give this Maple Olive Oil Banana Bread a wholesome, hearty foundation, while maple tantalizes as a hint of sweetness to balance it out. Maple Olive Oil Banana Bread is great as a breakfast, snack, or any time you’re in the mood for something delicious and comforting. I woke up this morning…

Chocolate Butterscotch Cupcakes with Pretzel Frosting

Chocolate Butterscotch Cupcakes are my new favorite thing. Do you ever think up something wonderful that you just sort of brush aside because you think it isn’t possible? Or you don’t have the means to do it so it lies forgotten in the part of your brain home to all your brilliant ideas? For example:…

Monster Cookie Brownies

Monster Cookie Brownies are like a monster cookie had a baby with a brownie. Brownies are stuffed with peanut butter chips and M&Ms, then frosted with an out-of-this-world peanut butter oatmeal cookie dough frosting that deserves it’s own fanfare and could easily be eaten on spoon. Remember when we made Oatmeal Cookie Dough Whoopie Pies…

Biscoff Cookie Cheesecake Bites

Biscoff Cookie Cheesecake Bites have a Biscoff cooke crust, cheesecake with Biscoff cookie dough chunks, and topped with a dollop of Biscoff cookie butter for good measure. You know those cookies that Delta gives you as your in-flight snack? They’re crispy and have a really distinctive taste that somehow taste familiar but at the same time…

Half-Baked Cupcakes

Half-Baked Cupcakes are vanilla cupcakes with brownie batter chunks baked into them, topped with a cookie dough frosting that tastes just like eating raw cookie dough (minus the eggs!). Based on the popular Ben & Jerry’s Half-Baked ice cream flavor. Sometimes you just have a stroke of brilliance you can’t let go of. It keeps…

Coffee Bacon Dark Chocolate Scones

Recently, I learned that my roommate isn’t “a big scone person.” I was flabbergasted. As a passionate anglophile and lover of all manner of breakfast-approved desserts, it was incomprehensible to me that even the mere idea of a freshly-baked scone (much less coffee bacon dark chocolate scones) wouldn’t cause one’s heart to beat faster in…

Oatmeal Cookie Dough Whoopie Pies

Oat flour transforms regular cookie dough frosting into oatmeal cookie dough frosting for these Oatmeal Cookie Dough Whoopie Pies. The oatmeal cookie dough frosting is sandwiched between two soft-baked brown butter cookies. This past weekend, Audrey visited me at school. Because my school is in a (very) small town where there isn’t much to do that…

Gourmet Samoa Bars

Gourmet Samoa Bars are a homemade version of the Samoa Girl Scoot cookie. Buttery, tender shortbread bars are topped with Milk Bar chocolate crumb, and a coconut caramel sauce. A delicious way to tide yourself over during the long months leading up to Girl Scout cookie season. Everyone knows Samoas are the best Girl Scout…