Audrey, Author at The Batter Thickens

Strawberry Champagne Cupcakes

Happy New Year! We’re having Champagne Cupcakes. Christmas is over, which is always sad, but the New Year brings lots of exciting things! All those dreams of resolutions that will never happen, but that’s fun to pretend will happen. All the ideas of fresh starts, even if you’re in school and are in the middle…

Orange Dark Chocolate Pound Cake

Fresh winter citrus is the star in this recipe for Orange Dark Chocolate Pound Cake. It’s the perfect dessert to make long winter days a little bit sweeter. This cake. Is the cake of my dreams. Like actually, I think about this cake a lot. Literally all year I think of this cake. It’s deliciously…

Brown Butter Eggnog Cutout Cookies

Merry Christmas! I just got back from college earlier this week, and as soon as I was over the jet-lag it was Christmas, Christmas, Christmas. Christmas is the name of the game. And what is more Christmasy than decorating cookies? Specifically, Brown Butter Sugar Cookies? I like to think I’ve gotten a little better…

Cinnamon Roll Blondies

Hello all! This is Audrey, and this is my first time posting in a while. Before I get to these cinnamon roll blondies, I promise I have a good reason. It’s called I started college three months ago. Things have been exciting and hectic and crazy busy, and unfortunately I haven’t gotten time to bake…

Little Damage and Charcoal Ice Cream

I had a day off from band and finally got out of my dorm / off campus over the weekend. Naturally, that involved getting dessert. I chose a soft-serve ice cream place called Little Damage that went viral because their ice cream and cones are black. It seems fitting that my first food review…

Paleo Millionaire’s Shortbread Bars

Audrey and I told you we were back, back, BACK to the blog and we kept up a good run for a few weeks, but then guess what happened. I moved (for the third time in three years) and Audrey went to college. And our blog momentum? Skidded. to. a. halt. Oops. Though to be…

Cookie Dough Pie (3 Ingredients)

Cookie Dough Pie does not actually have cookie dough in it. It’s the simplest dessert ever. 3 ingredients. A world of deliciousness. Cookies. Milk. Cool Whip. Dip the cookie in milk, layer them with Cool Whip. It sounds weird, I know, but it is so so SO good. And, so simple, even a three year…

Butterfinger Brownie Ice Cream

I hate icebreaker games. And icebreaker questions. Literally no one has befriended someone based on an icebreaker game. They are awkward and forced and make the ice thicker. I could go on for a long time. But the point is to bring up my least favorite icebreaker question: what is your favorite flavor of ice…