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Pie Crust
Happy 2013, everyone! May your resolve be strong, and all your dreams be realized this year To me, making pie crust from scratch has always been a daunting task. Sure, I’ve done it, but it’s so much easier to buy it from the store. But for those times when I wanna wrassle with a rolling […]
Peppermint Swirl Brownies
Happy holidays, everyone! Here’s a seasonal twist on a personal favorite of mine. Some of you might remember the time I made marble brownies. (BTW – you should definitely make those as-is, if you haven’t already.) I was inspired by both that recipe, and my love of all things chocolate and mint at this time of […]
Pumpkin Cheesecake
Just one more pumpkin recipe before the season is officially over. (I haven’t quite determined if December 1st was the cutoff or not.) A friend sent me this cheesecake recipe from Epicurious so I could make it for Thanksgiving, and it was insane. It got rave reviews across the board – a certified 5 Evil Rating. And it’s not […]
Oreo-Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies
I toldja I was gonna do it! I used some leftover holiday Oreos (I had 12 exactly, how fortuitous!), and bought a pack of pre-made chocolate chip cookie dough for the outside. This pack, however, made jumbo cookies, so I only used one dough square per Oreo. You’ll follow the same drill as you would […]
Peanut Butter Pretzel-Stuffed Cookies
That title is a mouthful, just like the cookies themselves. I’ll make this short and sweet, like the recipe. A friend sent me a link to chocolate chip cookies that were filled with Oreos (yup!!), and I thought, “Maybe I could try something like that!” Except, instead of Oreos, I had peanut butter-filled pretzels. This […]
Pumpkin Macarons
Happy Halloween! I should start off by telling you there’s no pumpkin in this recipe, but a hefty amount of pumpkin pie spice. ‘Pumpkin Pie Spiced Macarons’ is just a super long and not catchy name for a cookie, so there ya go. Plus, well… they look like pumpkins! I’ve made french macarons before, so […]
Chocolate Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
If you haven’t tried this combination yet, get on it! (Truthfully, I hadn’t before this cake either.) A friend requested this cake for his birthday recently, so I dug up two tried and true recipes. The first, for the cake, was the Perfectly Chocolate Cake recipe. Instead of cupcakes, I made two 9″ round cakes. […]
Pumpkin Cheesecake Frosting
As you may remember, I had a few cupcakes left over after the great nugget experiment of 2012. Not wanting the remainder to go to waste, I decided to frost them. And, since it’s technically autumn (despite the temperature fluctuating from 106ºF to 65ºF back up to 92ºF in the course of 10 days), I wanted to […]
Cupcake Nuggets
You heard me. You may recall that last week I posted about some tasty vanilla cupcakes, but I actually found that recipe after drooling over reading this nugget one, also from Cupcake Project. I’m slightly terrified of boiling oil, but a friend assured me she was up for the task of frying, if I could […]
Ultimate Vanilla Cupcakes
I cannot take credit for coming up with this cupcake recipe, but I will take full credit for executing it perfectly in my own kitchen. To read more about the original inception of this particular recipe, which included plenty of trial and error on the part of the blogger and readers of Cupcake Project, click […]
