Audrey, Author at The Batter Thickens

Birthday Cake Ice Cream

Homemade Birthday Cake Ice Cream is a vanilla cake ice cream base with birthday cake batter chunks and vanilla frosting swirl and of course, plenty of sprinkles. My brother recently got back from college, and before he had even come home he requested birthday cake ice cream. I was only too happy to fulfill this…

Butterscotch Pudding Cookies

Butterscotch pudding is the not-so secret (well, it’s in the name) ingredient that makes these Butterscotch Pudding Cookies so soft and chewy. We added chocolate chips too because, hey, contrast is fun. My mom normally thinks everything we make is delicious, but she has a certain list of flavors that just makes dessert even better….

Blueberry Cheesecake Ice Cream Sandwich Cookies

It broke 80 degrees the other day. Actually, it broke eighty five degrees the other day. So to me, it’s officially summer. Of course, I’m still in school, trudging through the last 10 days, with teachers frantically trying to teach us things in ten days when really they should just be wrapping up and letting…

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…