A food blog balancing sweet treats & healthy eats.
My family recently all went to visit Indy for the American Piano Awards Classical Finals, so naturally that meant I had to bake a themed dessert. I didn’t quite know what a piano themed dessert would be, but I had the idea for these Earl Grey Shortbread cookies on my shortlist, and decided they’d be…
Last month, I made some root beer float cookies, and I reopened the can of worms that is root beer baking. Root beer and chocolate are just such a good flavor combination… And what do I have root beer extract in my pantry for if not to use it?? So, I had to make some…
Over the years, I have made a few baked goods that pay homage to the Knusperflakes Ritter Sport flavor. Cookies and brownies mainly. But I realized recently that I have not given the same treatment to my other favorite Ritter Sport flavor: Marzipan! I may have to rank Marzipan above Knusperflakes in terms of favorite…
This Matcha Strawberry Coffee Cake came from a video I saw of Justine Snacks making a matcha coffee cake that looked and sounded very good. She kept it traditional with cinnamon filling, but I felt a little bit of strawberry would be a nice addition! Putting matcha in coffee cake seemed pretty ingenious. I think…
This will shock no one, but I don’t really like Starbucks. The coffee is very standard, unless you get one of their fancy drinks. But those fancy drinks all have approximately 3x the amount of daily recommended sugar, which I don’t want in my morning drink! On the few occasions I go into a Starbucks…
Once again, I received an ad for some Levain Chocolate Coffee Toffee Cookies that I could not get in Minneapolis, and was not going to pay to ship them to my house. So what is a girl to do? Bake her own. It’s really quite simple. Levain really knows how to do a solid seasonal…
Introducing… *drum roll*… For the first time ever… The Batter Thickens has a guest chef… the third sibling: Ethan! My brother didn’t write this post, but he made the food and has given me lots of quotes to include, so you can hear about it directly from the chef! It may not look like fine…
My first memories of pi day are, unfortunately, not great. It was one of the many times during my childhood education where learning the concept of something did not exactly pan out in practice. It’s up there with the time I was told we’d be doing an experiment where we “make clouds” inside of 2-liter…