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Nutella Peanut Butter Banana Bread

Use up your mushy, over-ripe bananas by baking them with peanut butter and swirling it all with Nutella to make Nutella Peanut Butter Banana Bread. It’s sweet, peanut buttery, chocolatey, and full of banana flavor – aka the ideal breakfast. So I think we all have had the experience of having too many bananas in…

Biscoff Pumpkin Bread

A moist loaf of pumpkin bread is swirled with Biscoff cookie butter and sprinkled with mini chocolate chips on top. Biscoff Pumpkin Bread is full of spiced autumnal flavor, and such a cozy thing to enjoy on a fall or early winter morning. I’m clearly not over Pumpkin Season yet. I think this song sums up our…

Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls

This post comes to you two weeks delayed. Originally, I was disappointed with how the pictures of these Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls turned out, so I decided not to post about them. But yesterday when I was scanning back through them, I liked them better than I did initially. (Do you find this ever happens…

The Brownie Doctor: Parent Trap Brownies

Introducing Parent Trap Brownies, aka “Papers Suck and I Desperately Need Some Brain Food Brownies.” With the onset of the Christmas season comes the onset of its nemesis, cause of crushed rather than ’tis the season spirits: finals. Luckily, I have a prodigious arsenal of antidotes, a large number of which start with “brown” and end in “ie.” Do…

Sweet Potato Casserole Cupcakes

The Batter Thickens is on vacation. (Sweet words on a sweet blog.) That means we’re united, ready for a week full of joint baking projects, joint posts, and sharing (a little too much) food together. [Speaking of joint posts, this post comes to you in two voices: Molly’s will be left-aligned; Audrey’s will be right-aligned…

Butterfinger Cookies

According to my brother, the perfect cookie is a simple and uncomplicated chocolate chip cookie. He gets impatient with Audrey’s and my inclination to play around with multiple flavors and complex baking procedures (browning butter, chilling dough, stuffing centers) and if he had his way, all we would ever bake would be Toll House Chocolate…

Tennis Racket Cake

Make this Tennis Racket Cake for the tennis lover in your life or for your next tennis team end-of-season party! For a larger crowd, make tennis ball cupcakes to go with it. So, I actually made this Tennis Racket Cake a couple weeks ago, but we didn’t have this blog then, and I still want…

Triple Chocolate Blueberry Cake

Triple Chocolate Blueberry Cake is two layers of moist chocolate cake covered in rich chocolate buttercream, with a blueberry chocolate ganache between the layers. Decorate with fresh blueberries. So, it was my dad’s 50th birthday on Saturday! Woo hoo! And even though he got a cake last week, I baked him another one for his…

Nutella Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies

Nutella Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies are chocolate chip cookies taken to the next level with the addition of brown butter and gooey Nutella center. These Nutella Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies contain three of my most favoritest things: 1. brown butter, 2. chocolate chips, 3. Nutella. Was there ever any doubt that I would be…

Momofuku Chocolate Chip Layer Cake

I first heard about the almost mythic (among the blogging community, anyway) Momofuku Milk Bar and their eponymous cookbook at the beginning of this past summer. As I recall, I immediately ordered it on Amazon and was drooling over their creative, elaborate recipes just two days later. Although the cakes, with their distinctive exposed exteriors,…