Chocolate covered espresso beans give these chewy Chocolate Covered Coffee Bean Cookies a satisfying crunch, and the bitterness from the coffee bean adds a nice counterbalance to the sweetness of the chocolate chips. An afternoon treat you can truly call “brain food.” Where do you get your inspiration from? For baking, my inspiration comes from…
Monster Cookie Brownies
Monster Cookie Brownies are like a monster cookie had a baby with a brownie. Brownies are stuffed with peanut butter chips and M&Ms, then frosted with an out-of-this-world peanut butter oatmeal cookie dough frosting that deserves it’s own fanfare and could easily be eaten on spoon. Remember when we made Oatmeal Cookie Dough Whoopie Pies…
Coffee Bacon Dark Chocolate Scones
Recently, I learned that my roommate isn’t “a big scone person.” I was flabbergasted. As a passionate anglophile and lover of all manner of breakfast-approved desserts, it was incomprehensible to me that even the mere idea of a freshly-baked scone (much less coffee bacon dark chocolate scones) wouldn’t cause one’s heart to beat faster in…
Oatmeal Cookie Dough Whoopie Pies
Oat flour transforms regular cookie dough frosting into oatmeal cookie dough frosting for these Oatmeal Cookie Dough Whoopie Pies. The oatmeal cookie dough frosting is sandwiched between two soft-baked brown butter cookies. This past weekend, Audrey visited me at school. Because my school is in a (very) small town where there isn’t much to do that…
Ovaltine Black Bottom Zucchini Bread
Ovaltine Black Bottom Zucchini Bread is a black bottom zucchini bread recipe that swirls Ovaltine-infused chocolate zucchini bread with regular zucchini bread so you can eat vegetables AND chocolate for breakfast! Audrey’s and my illustrious baking careers started with an exclusive speciality in banana bread. Nowadays, we rarely repeat recipes. But back then, we had…