Thank you Joy the Baker for this recipe! Perfect for birthdays, bad days, and Valentine’s Day (hello!), this little cake is delicious and perfection every time. You’ll need some extra kitchen equipment for this one, so make sure to check the list below! I nixed the peanut butter from her recipe, and did the order…
Category: Dessert
Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Squares
I had a whole 2 cups of leftover pumpkin puree, so I sort of went on a pumpkin baking spree. I made both of my pumpkin cookies to refresh my memory and revise the recipes a bit, and thought the pumpkin made the cookies so fluffy and cake-like, that they might taste good as a…
Pumpkin Butter
This is scrumptious. Like Apple Butter? Try it with Pumpkin! This is straight up from Food & Wine Magazine, with some minor alterations. I’ll rewrite it in my own words, but I cannot take credit for it! Ingredients: 1 3lb pumpkin turned into puree (follow my recipe here) — Food & Wine wants you to…
Apple Pie
After a fruitful day of picking apples in an orchard, I needed to start cooking! I’ve made Apple Pie a few times, but this is by far and large my favorite recipe. Gooey and autumnal, this will definitely make some use of all those apples in season right now! Ingredients: 1 double crust pie, recipe can…
Brown Butter Bourbon Rice Whiskey Treats
It has been far too long since I’ve posted, for shame! This is a delicious, quick, and easy recipe to make for pretty much any occasion. I made it for a 90s-themed party I had and I should have made more! Will definitely be making this for barbecues this summer. Ingredients (serves 8-12, depending on…
Bourbon Pecan Pie
I made this pie as a Christmas present for my stepmother who hails from Kentucky, so of course I used Kentucky bourbon. I studied a lot of different pecan pie recipes when I made this one – ones using maple syrup, the ones on the back of the Karo Syrup bottle, ones that use only…
Pecan Sandies
Let the Christmas Cookie Baking commence! These come out super tasty and not too sweet, I definitely woke up craving them this morning. They make for great presents, too! Ingredients (makes about cookies): 1 cup white sugar 1 cup powdered sugar 1 cup unsalted butter at room temperature 1 cup olive oil 2 eggs, beaten 1…
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
‘Tis the season for pumpkin! These cookies come out super soft and almost cake-like, and taste very festively fall. Ingredients (yields 60-100 cookies, depending on your desired cookie size): 1 can of pumpkin puree 2 sticks of unsalted butter, room temperature 1 cup granulated sugar 1 cup light brown sugar 1/4 tsp vanilla 2 large eggs…
Mama Toby’s Sweet Potato Pie
Every year when I was growing up, my mother made this recipe for the annual Sukkah at our neighbors’ house. Sometimes we would make it again for Thanksgiving, cause sweet potatoes. Part dessert and part side dish, you can really serve this either way. It isn’t so much a pie as a casserole, but it’s delicious and…
S’mores Cookies
The other week I went to a summer picnic and was tasked with bringing dessert. What kind of desserts go well with a picnic? First I thought pie, but I didn’t want to bother bringing plates, knives, and forks. Then I thought fruit, but that’s not really making anything. And then I thought but of course, what…
Russian Tea Cakes
This is one of my favorite cookie recipes to make, it’s like eating a little snowball that tastes of marzipan. At our cookie potlucks these are usually the first to go, and makes for great gifts. They also work well for Passover because there’s no leavening (although I still need to figure out an adequate…
Speculaas
Sinterklaas is coming up, and Dutch girl that I am I will be baking speculaas for December 5th. Traditionally these cookies are made with molds, but my family is all about making new traditions, so as a young girl we just used cookie cutters (and a spice kit imported from Holland courtesy of Dutch relatives)….
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