with Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting and Cherries If you’re like me, you dread the annual deluge of pastel pink EVERYTHING upon our stores each February. This year I wanted to make something that was still fitting for the holiday without being overly frilly or pink. And soooo…I decided to make crepes, which are literally, physically…
Baking
Peach Cookies
If you’ve never seen these cookie peach look-a-likes before you might think I invented them. As much as I’d love to let you think that, they’re actually an old traditional Italian cookie. The cookies themselves are pretty simple vanilla cookies sandwiched together and filled with a vanilla custard. Well, normally. I changed them because I’m…
Mandarin Tahini Cake
I’ve wanted to write a baking recipe for the blog using tahini for forever and now it’s finally here. Tahini by itself can be kind of bitter but in baking it lends this awesome deep nutty flavor to anything, without being so transparent as its loud cousin, peanut butter. That is, it plays much more…
Bourbon Chocolate Cake
Now, I won’t knock a good derby pie. If you haven’t had one, imagine a Thanksgiving pecan pie crossed with one of those chocolate silk pies. Plus bourbon
Blood Orange Carrot Cake
You know how when you finish watching the finale of a TV show you like, you feel like you just could not possibly wait another minute to start the next season? I feel that way about winter right now. We’ve had a taste of spring, so WHY is it not just actually HERE yet? Fortunately,…
Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies
So, I know Thanksgiving is still a couple days away. And yes yes, most of you have the whole thing about not “skipping over a whole holiday” and doing Christmas too early. But excuse me. Target has had Christmas stuff out for like a month and a half now, and I spend about half my…