Audrey, Author at The Batter Thickens

Chocolate Coffee Toffee Cookies (Levain-Inspired)

Once again, I received an ad for some Levain Chocolate Coffee Toffee Cookies that I could not get in Minneapolis, and was not going to pay to ship them to my house. So what is a girl to do? Bake her own. It’s really quite simple. Levain really knows how to do a solid seasonal…

Weeknight Moroccan Chicken with Orzo

Introducing… *drum roll*… For the first time ever… The Batter Thickens has a guest chef… the third sibling: Ethan! My brother didn’t write this post, but he made the food and has given me lots of quotes to include, so you can hear about it directly from the chef! It may not look like fine…

Peanut Butter Milk Bar Pie (Happy Pi Day!)

My first memories of pi day are, unfortunately, not great. It was one of the many times during my childhood education where learning the concept of something did not exactly pan out in practice. It’s up there with the time I was told we’d be doing an experiment where we “make clouds” inside of 2-liter…

Homemade Bagels

These bagels, like many things on this blog, are directly inspired by a GBBO episode. My mom and I were watching an episode from the 2020 season, and they made rainbow bagels. While I saw no reason to go through the rigamarole of dyeing bagel dough five different colors… I wanted to try making homemade…

Brownie Doctor: Samoa Brownies

There was a phase for a while on this blog where both Molly and I were posting “Brownie Doctor” recipes that zhuzh-ed up brownies mixes. It was an excellent phase! I don’t know whether I just bake more variety of things, or have replaced brownie mix with homemade brownies, but I feel like I haven’t…

Triple Chocolate Tarte

The idea for this triple chocolate tarte has been knocking around in my brain for a while. It came about because I’ve been wanting to try this brownie caramel from Milk Bar, and I have also been wanting to make something in a tarte pan. And ALSO I’ve just been craving plain ol’ chocolate recently….

Banana Cupcakes with Oatmeal Cookie Frosting

I have been posting regularly again for over a year now, and more than I ever did when we started it. (It’s amazing how much time you can find in a day when you’re not doing high school homework or trapped in LA traffic!) But I’ve gotten pretty lazy about maintenance and admin things. Molly…

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