Fresh winter citrus is the star in this recipe for Orange Dark Chocolate Pound Cake. It’s the perfect dessert to make long winter days a little bit sweeter. This cake. Is the cake of my dreams. Like actually, I think about this cake a lot. Literally all year I think of this cake. It’s deliciously…
Brown Butter Eggnog Cutout Cookies
Merry Christmas! I just got back from college earlier this week, and as soon as I was over the jet-lag it was Christmas, Christmas, Christmas. Christmas is the name of the game. And what is more Christmasy than decorating cookies? Specifically, Brown Butter Sugar Cookies? I like to think I’ve gotten a little better…
Food Blogger Cookie Swap 2015
Hey all! This is an exciting post, because it’s our first post on our brand new and improved website, and it’s the post for the 2015 Food Blogger Cookie Swap! I’ve never done the Cookie Swap before, I only heard about it this year; but once I heard about it, I raced to sign up….
Gingerbread Cupcakes with Eggnog Frosting
Gingerbread Cupcakes with eggnog frosting are a perfect holiday treat for anyone who doesn’t love the traditional gingerbread cookie thing. All the gingerbread flavor, none of the disappointingly crunchy cookie. We’ve made these Gingerbread Cupcakes once before, and they were amazing. But the frosting didn’t really work out how we anticipated. It was with mascarpone cheese…
Peppermint and Chocolate Candy Cane Cake
Peppermint and Chocolate Candy Cane Cake is alternating red velvet cake and vanilla cake shaped like a candy cane with peppermint frosting. Festive and fun for the holidays! “Peppermint, but only a little. Chocolate, but a lot.” These were my instructions, from my aforementioned friend at school who gives me her family’s homemade curry for…
Flourless Peppermint Hot Chocolate Brownies
The secret of Flourless Peppermint Hot Chocolate Brownies is 1) no flour in the brownies = fudgy as heck, 2) Andes mint chips sneaked into the brownie batter = double peppermint action. You’re looking at Peppermint Hot Chocolate in brownie form. “Haul out the holly. Put up the tree. Fill up the stocking. Put up…
Best Ever Frosted Sugar Cookies
Best Ever Frosted Sugar Cookies are thick, chewy, full of subtle vanilla flavor, positively covered in sprinkles, and the size of large bakery cookies (the only reasonable size for sugar cookies to be). Girl walks into a bakery. Girl is greeted by a case full of delectable treats of every size, shape, and kinds. Girl’s…
Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream Cake
Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream Cake uses Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams pumpkin ice cream recipe with a pie crust ice cream adapted from Momofuku Milk Bar’s graham cracker crust ice cream recipe, topped with Milk Bar pretzel crumb and salted caramel. Regular pumpkin pie just doesn’t compare. Do you like pumpkin pie? I’ve met very few…