{how to} A Cake Shaped Like the Number One (for My Number One Boy)
My little guy is one year old today! So I made this birthday cake to celebrate. Initially, I was totally uninspired as to how to decorate it, but I saw he was in his...
Category: Dessert + Sweet Recipes
{recipe} Meyer Lemon Sugar Cookies
When life gives you lemons… don’t make lemonade. Make cookies! My parents had loads and loads of Meyer lemons to harvest last weekend, so we decided to spend a few days experimenting with all...
{recipe, kind of} I Tried Those Healthy 2 Ingredient Banana Oatmeal “Cookies” So You Don’t Have To
Wouldn’t it be great, amazing, stupendous even, if you could make delicious cookies using only bananas and oats? It would, right? You could eat like 10 cookies but in reality all you ate was a...
{recipe} Winter Citrus Cake
Winter is one of the best times for baking, because there is so much wonderful citrus to juice and zest. I am not a huge fan of straight lemon desserts, but I really love...
{recipe} Lavender Caramel Sauce
Lately it seems like everything that’s caramel is salted caramel. Now I like my salted caramel as much as the next gal, but I feel like it’s time to think about other kinds of...
{make this} The Bostini – Like Boston Cream Pie, Only Better
For years my aunts would brag about this dessert from Scala’s, the Bostini – they just couldn’t get enough of it. I finally got to try it, and I was completely won over. Orange...
{recipe} Sesame Ginger Candy
Do you remember eating sesame candy as a kid? I used to love the sticky little rectangles of sesame seeds suspended in a honey-sweet bar. Great news: it’s actually pretty easy to make at...
{gingerbread in the house} Non-Traditional Gingerbread “Houses” I Have Made and Loved
Today I will be making my fourth non-traditional gingerbread house – I will keep it a surprise for the moment – so I found myself looking back on the last three years of crazy...
{make this} Brown Butter Snickerdoodles from Ambitious Kitchen
I’ve always liked snickerdoodles well enough, but they have never really knocked my socks off. It turns out what they are missing is some brown butter to put them over the top. This recipe...
{make this} Momofuku’s Gooey Butter Cake Bars
Have you ever had gooey butter cake? How I went 36 years without ever putting one of these in my mouth is a mystery to me. Apparently there is one kind from St. Louis. And...
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