These cinnamon sugar shortbread cookies are light and sweet, and feel like they both melt in your mouth and have the perfect crisp. I love shortbread, it’s so buttery and delicious. I remember when I discovered Lorna Doone cookies and was like WHAT are these?? I don’t buy those anymore because I can make my…
Traditional lace cookies often have either oatmeal or almonds (or both) but I opted to use a different nut. These pistachio lace cookies have the same look and texture as the original but a different flavor that I personally find superior. I looked at a ton of recipes when researching Florentine, or lace cookies. I…
Are you a mint chocolate person? I one hundred percent AM. I love it, and not just around the holidays. Peppermint cheesecake brownies definitely are holiday appropriate but can be enjoyed year round. Mint cookie ice cream is one of my favorite flavors. I love thin mints, and mint Oreos, and my mom always made…
Mini pumpkin pies are a miniature version, perfect for serving, of my spiced pumpkin pie. I’m not a huge pumpkin person but I love a richly spiced pumpkin pie, and this is that in a cute little personal size pie. These would be beautiful for serving or putting a pie on everyone’s plate with no…
What is chocolate fluffernutter pie? What is fluffernutter pie? What is a fluffernutter?? These are all excellent questions. Let’s start with the fluffernutter. A fluffernutter is a New England classic of a peanut butter and marshmallow fluff sandwich. Personally, I’ve never had one but I was never one for adding anything to my peanut butter…
I set out to make what many people might deem the perfect fall cookie in these pumpkin sugar cookies. I wanted something buttery and warm and spiced plus, obviously pumpkin. Pumpkin has never been my favorite fall flavor, I don’t mind it but I’m not running to get a pumpkin latte on September 1st either….
These cookies and cream cupcakes are two things, easy and delicious. They use a box mix that’s zhushed up, and a from scratch frosting. This is the type of cupcake to make when your kid forgets and you have to bake them that day or the night before. You will get way more credit than…
Corn is probably not the first thing you imagine being in a cookie. It might not even be at the end of the list. But I promise you these cornbread cookies are not to be skipped. I have always thought of cornbread to be almost sort of a dessert, especially if you add cinnamon butter….
Caramel apples to me seem sort of like a summer thing, but I think most people think of them as a fall flavor. Apple definitely is, and caramel I think is both fall and all season. However, this caramel apple cake feels very cozy and fall like. To get a strong apple flavor, I used…
While I have many brownie recipes on my site, I actually didn’t have one for brown butter brownies or m&m brownies. What better way to check both of those boxes than to combine them? I am a firm believer in that while not everything needs brown butter, adding it to baked goods (and some non-baking…
I love zucchini bread. Zucchini bread is my banana bread. You will not find any banana recipes on this website, sorry not sorry. But I will make up for that with things like this walnut chocolate chip zucchini bread which will have you saying banana bread who? Zucchini bread is a great option when you…
When it’s the middle of summer, what is one the last things you want to do? Turn on the oven. Even if you have air conditioning, it still heats up your house and makes it far less comfortable. That’s what these chocolate oreo rice krispies treats are for. No oven, very little heat involved in…
What is a peach crisp? There are several desserts that are sort of similar and popular when it comes to summer fruit. There’s cobbler, crumbles and crisps. They are all a little similar and a little different. All three have a fruit base and then some sort of sweetened topping that has flour. A cobbler,…
I wasn’t sure what to call these buns. From my research, they appear to be very similar to a Czech Kolache or a Russian Vatrushka, however I have had neither. So I decided to call them cheesecake brioche buns, but they indeed were inspired by and I learned about the shaping from either/both. It just…
If you’re looking for something akin to a zucchini pizza or a summery side dish, this goat cheese and zucchini galette is perfect. It screams summer eating. What is a galette? If you’ve never had one, it’s sort of like a free form pie or a tart. It’s a pie crust but there is no…