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Apple Butter Whoopie Pies with Peanut Butter Filling

Audrey recently told you about her childhood obsession with peanut butter/apple butter sandwiches (as they were referred to in our household)**. It’s funny because neither of us have ever baked with apple butter before, but we both came up with ideas for apple butter recipes independently at almost the same time. It’s almost…spooky. Maybe there’s…

Chocolate Pumpkin Cheesecake Cake with Cinnamon Chocolate Frosting

(This is a dual post: Audrey’s writing is on the left, Molly’s is on the right in italics.) My dad’s birthday cake is always one of my favorites. Don’t get me wrong, I love all birthday cakes, but my dad’s almost always involves fall flavors like pumpkin or cinnamon. And I mean come on, you can’t go…

Apple Butter Bread with Cinnamon Glaze

This Apple Butter Bread is moist, tender, and full of autumnal spiced flavor. Topped with a cinnamon glaze, one bite will sweep you away in the coziness of fall. So I was a pretty weird kid. (Yes, in general, but I am talking specifically food-wise here.) That might be surprising to some, seeing as now…

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cake

This peanut butter chocolate chip cookie dough cake is NUTS — literally, there is a LOT of peanut butter involved. But it’s also just over-the-top bonkers. Three layers of chocolate chip cookie dough cake sandwiched by peanut butter marshmallow filling and covered in cookie dough frosting. Can you even deal?! This is not a cake…

Cinnamon Roll Cookies

Cinnamon Roll Cookies are chewy cinnamon cookies mixed with a cinnamon streusel and topped with a swirl of icing. A cinnamon roll in cookie form. At my high school, you have to take one gym class to get gym credit (because it is also a health class) and the rest of the three credits can…

Oatmeal Cookie Brownies

Oatmeal cookies are combined with fudgy brownies to make Oatmeal Cookie Brownies, possibly the most comforting recipe ever created. This week on The Batter Thickens, we’re experimenting with nuclear physics. Ok no, we’re totally not. Are you kidding?? You wanna talk butter and sugar reactions? I’m your girl. Nuclear reactions? Yeah… that’s outta my league. Big…

Fruit Loops Cupcakes

All part of a complete breakfast! With Fruit Loops blended right into the frosting, one bite of these Fruit Loops Cupcakes will transport you straight back to childhood. They taste so much like the cereal you might be tempted to eat them for breakfast. A perfect for kids birthdays or a fun baking project. …

Nutella Peanut Butter Marshmallow Cupcakes

We call these Nutella Peanut Butter Marshmallow Cupcakes “Childhood Supreme Sandwich Cupcakes” because they have all the ingredients of a kid’s ideal sandwich: Nutella, peanut butter, and marshmallow fluff. These cupcakes are perfect for kids, or for the child in all of us. Do you ever get writer’s block? I’m pretty sure everyone above the…

Giant Cinnamon Rolls

These Giant Cinnamon Rolls are big enough to last a whole morning of slowly picking them apart piece-by-piece while sipping a never-ending cup of coffee and reading a delicious book. Stuffed with cinnamon filling and smothered in buttermilk icing, they’ll satisfy your craving for a sweet morning treat. “It is a truth universally acknowledged that…

New York Times Chocolate Chip Cookies Frozen Cool Whip Sandwiches

Have you ever baked the chocolate chip cookies off the bag of chocolate chips? The go-to, ever faithful and delicious classic? Or maybe you have your own classic chocolate chip cookie recipe that you always use? Maybe something sentimental from your childhood of coming home to your mother’s freshly baked cookies? Well, forget about…