These chocolate malt milk buns are like heaven. Have you had Japanese milk bread? If you haven’t.. you need to. Simply wonderful. It’s SO SOFT and pillowy and basically melts in your mouth. Like a bread version of cotton candy. Not exactly but just as delicious. I love milk bread when it’s unflavored, it’s ever…
How does peanut butter chocolate chip cheesecake sound? At the cheesecake factory, how many kinds of their cheesecake have you tried? Honestly, I almost always get the same one. I know its good and the menu is overwhelming. I haven’t been to one of those restaurants in about 5 years but, The white chocolate raspberry…
It’s my birthday! If you have a summer birthday you know, that as a kid at least they can sometimes result in not many friends being around to come to your birthday party. People go on vacation, etc. So I never had huge birthday parties, but spent time with my close friends and family. Which…
If I had ever had this blackberry poppyseed loaf as a kid, I would have been in heaven. Blackberries are a fruit I’ve spent more time picking in my life than anything else. When I was young we took a trip to Tofino, BC and I remember spending a few hours picking (and eating) blackberries…
I went to Italy and I didn’t get a stupid shirt OR an Italian maritozzi. What was I thinking? I went to Italy for Christmas and New Years in 2013/14. My husband was on deployment based out of Naples. So over the holidays I was able to fly there and meet him. It was really…
Lemon curd and I are having a life long love affair. Except when I say lifelong, I mean adult life because I was a sheltered child who was never exposed to lemon curd. I wasn’t actually sheltered and if I had been introduced I probably would have not liked it like a psychopath. Fun fact,…
How did I not learn about lemon curd until I was 30? I’m not a person who loves condiments on things. When I was a kid I liked plain peanut butter sandwiches – no jelly or jam. The only jam I liked was my grandmother’s raspberry freezer jam. I guess it was more ignorance is…
Pretzel bagels are here for all your soft pretzel breakfast dreams. You’re welcome. When I was a kid we lived in rural Virginia. I’m not talking about oh like a small town with some chain restaurants population 20,000. I’m talking one stoplight. One old family run gas station, a bank, and a building that consisted…
These oreo blondies are chewy (but with a little crunch from the cookies) and richly flavored with notes of caramel, vanilla and chocolate. They are a CROWD PLEASER! Who doesn’t love Oreos? I don’t know if I’ve ever met anyone who doesn’t. I once read a study that showed that Oreos activated the same pleasure…
These carrot cake scones are full of grated fresh carrot, spices, and chopped pecans. Plus all your usual scone favorites like butter and cream. The first batch I made I put in the usual amount of sugar I put in scones but they didn’t seem quite sweet enough. Normally I like my vanilla cream scones…
I love chai spice. I love in lattes, in bakes, if it was in a perfume I’d probably wear it. This book I read last year that the main character smells like cinnamon rolls and I had said that was a life goal. I take it back though, and update it to Chai spice. But…
There is a lot of talk of what kind of brownie person you are. Fudgy or cakey, but personally I think I’m somewhere in the middle. Chewy brownies. I like my brownies to be dense and chewy but not fudge level dense. Kind of like a cookie is how I like them. I love CRISP…
Who invented cookie butter? I’m pretty sure it didn’t exist when I was a kid. If it did I’m going to be seriously mad at my mom for hiding it from me. It’s deliciousness should be shared with the world! Hence me shoving it into a scone to make these cookie butter scones. What’s not…
Now I’m a fan of the duo that is raspberry and white chocolate just as much as the next person, if not more. But, it’s been done. About a million times. So, I thought about what fruit and white chocolate might be equally delicious. Perhaps white chocolate blueberry cookies? I’ve seen the combo in muffins…
A photographer’s toolbag is kind of an important thing. However, I firmly believe that a great artist can create beautiful things in spite of subpar tools. There are always exceptions to the rule, but for the most part it is the person. That being said, here is what is in my camera bag and in…