This Salted Caramel Pretzel Ice Cream Cake is the salty/sweet/chocolatey ice cream cake of your wildest dreams. Layers of salted caramel ice cream and pretzel ice cream sit on top of a brownie crust, with layers of chocolate ganache and chocolate crumb separating them. Drooool. This spring has been a big spring for my family- both…
Peanut Butter S’mores Cookie Sandwiches
These Peanut Butter S’mores Cookie Sandwiches are peanut butter cookies (made with homemade peanut butter!) sandwiched around marshmallow fluff and dipped in chocolate. The perfect mix of salty, sweet, gooey, chewy, and all around delicious. I think one of the hardest things to realize and admit about baking is that not everything you bake is…
Ritz Nutella Peanut Butter Brownies
Ritz Cracker Nutella Brownies are inspired by our favorite childhood after-school snack: Ritz crackers slathered with Nutella and peanut butter. These gooey Nutella brownies have a peanut butter Ritz cracker crust, salty-sweet Ritz cracker crumb mixed in, and the crowning glory is the Ritz cracker ganache. When I was a kid, one of my favorite…
Nutella Pretzel Magic Bars
Nutella Pretzel Magic Bars have a brown butter blondie base, sweet-and-salty crunchy pretzel crumb, and an ooey-gooey Nutella topping. These Nutella Pretzel Magic Bars started simple: Nutella. That’s it. We just wanted to work with Nutella. But…what to make? We discussed what to bake in the car while driving home one day and we spent…
Chocolate Covered Coffee Bean Cookies
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…
Chocolate Butterscotch Cupcakes with Pretzel Frosting
Chocolate Butterscotch Cupcakes are my new favorite thing. Do you ever think up something wonderful that you just sort of brush aside because you think it isn’t possible? Or you don’t have the means to do it so it lies forgotten in the part of your brain home to all your brilliant ideas? For example:…
Gourmet Samoa Bars
Gourmet Samoa Bars are a homemade version of the Samoa Girl Scoot cookie. Buttery, tender shortbread bars are topped with Milk Bar chocolate crumb, and a coconut caramel sauce. A delicious way to tide yourself over during the long months leading up to Girl Scout cookie season. Everyone knows Samoas are the best Girl Scout…
Cornflake Crunch Brownies
Cornflake Crunch Brownies start with the fudgiest brownie recipe known to baker, topped with the deliciously sweet/salty/crunchy goodness of Momofuku Milk Bar’s cornflake crunch. I think every baker needs to have a set of classic recipes in their arsenal. You, those recipes for basic things that always turn out perfect and delicious. You might not…