Audrey, Author at The Batter Thickens

Carrot Zucchini Bread with Maple Cream Cheese Glaze

Carrots add an extra bit of sweetness to the already-moist zucchini bread foundation in this recipe for Carrot Zucchini Bread. Hiding vegetables in a delicious, flavorful quick bread smothered in a luscious maple cream cheese glaze is pretty genius, and will make your breakfast (and morning) a little more special. Confession: I’m kind of obsessed with…

Butterfinger Crunch Brownie Cups

The Butterfinger frosting on these Butterfinger Crunch Brownie Cups is made out of a magical combination of melted candy corn and peanut butter that somehow tastes EXACTLY like Butterfinger. A perfect Halloween dessert. Halloween, similar to Christmas, is a very magical holiday. Wizards, vampires, spooky things. In this case, our magic is mixing candy corn…

Apple Butter Cheesecake Bars

Apple butter is a perfect fall flavor that I think is just so overlooked. We’re so inundated with pumpkin and squash and cinnamon and stuff that apple butter gets forgotten. Poor little apple butter. The quietly brilliant spread that just doesn’t get the attention or acknowledgement it deserves. Well I am here to give attention…

Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Banana Filling

Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Banana Filling are a delicious triage of chocolate, peanut butter, and banana flavor. A moist chocolate cupcake is filled with a peanut butter banana custard filling, then frosted with a peanut butter buttercream. Last week, I did a presentation at my school about this blog. My school’s kinda tiny and…

Pumpkin Cookie Swirled Brownies

Pumpkin Cookie Swirled Brownies are brownies swirled with pumpkin cinnamon chip cookie dough. Chewy cookie + pumpkin flavor + dense chocolate brownie = autumnal heaven in dessert form. By now, you’ve probably had to read too many posts of people fangirling over pumpkin and pumpkin season and how much they love it and how they…

Brown Butter S’mores Bars

September is a tough month for me. Not to be dramatic, but it’s basically a month of disappointed dreams. The onset of September conjures up visions of pristinely sharped pencils and unmarked new notebooks, walking home from the bus stop in shoes that are still being broken in while a few stray golden-orange leaves blow…

Stuffed Oreo Nutella Brownie Cups

Stuffed Oreo Nutella Brownie Cups have an Oreo sandwiched inside them and are smothered with addictive Nutella frosting. Be careful making these because they’re so good it’s almost impossible to only have one. My friend and I have a deal going where I bake her what she wants and she gives me some of her…

Brown Butter Coconut Chocolate Whoopie Pies

Soft-baked brown butter whoopie pies smeared with chocolate ganache and sandwiched around coconut frosting give these Brown Butter Coconut Chocolate Whoopie Pies a delicious Samoa cookie vibe that is irresistible. It’s been a busy past couple of weeks for me. I just started school and haven’t gotten a lot of chances to bake with all the…