These pretzels are a crowd-pleaser and are sure to vanish quickly whether you are cooking for a crowd or just one bacon-crazed man-friend.
Baking
A tropical bread to fight the gloom. Pina Colada Couronne!
This pastry ring masquerades as a bread, giving you every excuse you need to both pretend that it is adequate food for a full meal, and to smear copious amounts of butter, jelly, or icing all over it.
It’s ok to be too busy for a layer cake.
Yassss look at that fudgey goodness. I know what you’re thinking. That doesn’t look like something I would normally blog about. It isn’t layered. It doesn’t require a bazillion techniques and dirty dishes. It isn’t even very cute. Normally I would be way too competitive with myself to post about this super humble chocolate cake, […]
Misshapen But Delicious: Paul Hollywood’s Pecan Loaf
I always enjoy returning to what is, realistically, my favorite and most-used cookbook, Paul Hollywood’s “How to Bake.” The pecan loaf pictured above was made from that book, and I’ll get to that particular comedy of errors that somehow miraculously yielded something yummy in a bit. Matt and I are slowly approaching our wedding, which […]
Caramel SUCCESS and New Year’s Resolutions
Hey there world, it’s been a minute! I am a week and a half into a BADLY NEEDED two week break from teaching, and this is the first time that I have felt like I had the energy to do any writing. I’ll get to those beautiful and delicious millionaire shortbread cookies above, but I’d […]
Strawberry-Lemon Cake, A.K.A. The Cake That Caused Me To Wash My Stand Mixer FOUR TIMES.
Hey everybody. Sorry for the long period of radio silence… my life has been crazy. Which is not to say bad. Really, it’s been crazy AWESOME. My summer was so good and included lots of friendship time, great music with my chamber choir, hard work getting ready for school, and an AMAZING trip to Disney […]
I Have a New Cookbook. But I Really Needed It, I Swear.
Hey all. It’s been a hot minute. Life gets busy. BUT! Look at this awesome new cookbook my man-friend agreed to buy me as a shameless way to work around my vow to remain purchase-free. It is almost the end of the school year here in my world. I’m not going to lie to you. […]
…That time I set the oven on fire.
Hey world. So. I haven’t posted in a while. I have a somewhat pressure-filled job as a competitive show choir director, and January and February are STRESSFUL for me. Usually, I use baking as an outlet for that. But. Sometimes everything doesn’t go to plan. So, this post is dedicated to that. I did make […]
Caramel Cake: a Distraction from the BORING Superbowl
Every year, my man-friend and I host a half-time-show-watching-party on Super Bowl Sunday. This is really just an excuse for me to cook up some highly caloric deep fried food and share it with my favorite people. This year, I also decided to add an indulgent cake to the mix. Over the holidays, I bought […]
Macarons: cute and easy.
Ok, so I don’t really have a recipe for this one. However, I like to think of Macarons as sort of a personal specialty… I’ve made them quite a lot and feel comfortable adding flavors and whatnot, and I have the amounts memorized. I’ll bake something else tomorrow to stay on track with my once […]