Audrey, Author at The Batter Thickens

Homemade Pizza (with only about 30 min of active work)

I feel like homemade pizza has as an odd perception of being a labor intensive and difficult meal to prepare, but I’ve always found it to be a pretty simple. I think the key is how much effort you put into the crust. I’m sure there’s ways to make pizza dough that involve multiple rises…

Blueberry Cream Cheese Scuffins

Between my freshman and sophomore years of college, my parents were living in Marin County in Northern California, and so I got to live there with them for the summer. It was one of my favorite summers. I had no obligations, so I filled my days with running or hiking and filled my nights with…

Cherry Ricotta Muffins

I’m back again! Less of a break this time. The benefit of doing this lower-pressue version of the blog is that I can go home for a month and half and spend my time baking Christmas cookies and sharing them with family in real life and not post them. But now I’m back in LA…

Pumpkin Mac and Cheese (My Favorite Fall Meal)

This Pumpkin Mac and Cheese is the perfect fall meal – warm and cozy, slightly nutritious and slightly not, pumpkin-y but not overwhelming. I make it once or twice a year during the fall, but it’s never made it onto the blog. Until now! October is really just the time for orange foods. Pumpkin. Sweet…

Cinnamon Roll Blondies

I had the idea for these cinnamon roll blondies recently, but they were such a good idea that I had to check and see whether I had had the idea before. It turns out, I had! But, I made them in my brother’s kitchen during my freshman year of college and didn’t have the best…

Donuts in LA

It’s weird to think that I’ve been living in LA nearly full-time for about… three years now. Not sure how that happened! But I’ve definitely learned many of the pros and cons to living here. Sometimes it feels like the cons outweigh the pros. Sometimes it feels like the pros make the cons worth it….

Chocolate Coffee Pistachio Babka

I’ve been binge-watching the 2020 season of the Great British Bake Off recently. (I have to say I love what British reality TV has done during the pandemic. You can tell everyone is so much more connected and invested when they have to live in a bubble with each other. During chocolate week, the technical…

Champagne Strawberry Cake (and some feelings of Celebration and Nostalgia)

Remember like a month and a half ago when I wrote that post about trying create stuff again in my attempts to get a real job in the creative industry? Well, I got one! Monday will be my first day working at Dreamworks. I thought it would take longer than this, but here we are….