Audrey, Author at The Batter Thickens

Orange Dreamsicle Cupcakes

It’s getting to be the time of year again where I am ready for school to be over and for summer to start. To use the slang common amongst teenagers, I am “so done” with school. So done. I’m ready to not have to go through all the same classes every day, I’m ready for…

Brownie Popcorn Pie

I talked about this brownie pie when I made it in the form of the Grasshopper Pie, but it was such a good pie (like, the best pie of my life) that I had to make more variations on it. Like brownie popcorn pie. And because Momofuku Milk Bar is my greatest baking inspiration, I decided…

Funfetti Birthday Cake Cupcakes

Funfetti Birthday Cake Cupcakes inspired by the famous Momofuku Milk Bar birthday cake recipe. Birthday cake crumb is mixed into funfetti cucpake batter and used to make the funfetti birthday cake frosting. Sprinkles galore. I live in a small town. We don’t really have much of a culinary scene. No cool restaurants. No bakeries with cronuts….

Kit Kat Brownies With PB Cookie Frosting

I always forget about KitKats. They are amazing and like easily one of the best candy bars out there, but for some reason they are always foreshadowed in my mind by Reese’s or Twix or bars with more pizazz. But I thought of them the other day and kinds just thought, “What if I put…

Butterscotch Carrot Cake Ice Cream Sandwiches

Recently, my family wen to visit my brother in California, and we went to this really good- like, reeeeally good- restaurant called The Lark. Literally everything I put in my mouth was mind-blowing. And we ordered like twelve different things to share as a table. And then came dessert, and I didn’t think my mind could be…

Carrot Cake Ice Cream with Cream Cheese Frosting Swirl

I’ve learned a lot of things from this blog. But I think I’ve just learned the most important lesson of all. Frosting is the best possible thing you can swirl into ice cream. Literally nothing else can get on the level of a frosting ice cream swirl. Especially if it’s cream cheese frosting swirl. In…

Nutella Coffee Brownies with Pistachio Frosting

Being the youngest in my family, I’ve learned that, however much I wish it wasn’t the case, older people are normally right. I’ll admit that my parents are more right about things than I am, and that even my older siblings are more right. But that means that, as the youngest, I am the most often not…

Momofuku Grasshopper Pie with Thin Mint Crust

The Momofuku Grasshopper Pie might be my favorite pie. Like, ever. I always forget about pie being a dessert option, and then when I actually do remember, i can never really think of anything creative to do with it. So, I end up just never making one. I need to change that. Boy-oh-boy, do I…