I was in the mood to bake something fairly simple last weekend, so I decided cookies would be best. Of course, I didn’t want to make just any ordinary cookie. I wanted to make something I hadn’t made before. So when I found this recipe from Martha Stewart thanks to Pinterest, I was sold. Toffee […]
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Cookie Exchange Year 2: Monster Cookies
My neighbor across the street invited me to her annual cookie exchange again this year. Since I cheated with making cookies last year, I thought I would make real cookies this year. I had forgotten how long it had been since I made cookies, rather than cupcakes, cake, or some other type of dessert. It […]
Reversing Gears & a Chocolate Snickers Cake
So a few posts ago, I mentioned that a slight change was happening in a couple weeks but I wasn’t quite ready to say what. Well, with this post I feel like it’s an appropriate time to say what that is since it sort of explains why I baked this cake. Tomorrow is the last […]
Homemade Oatmeal Moon Pies
So I cam across this recipe the other week on one of my favorite food blog/websites, Annie’s Eats. Her food photography is 100x better than the one little Instagram’d cell phone picture that I remembered to take while baking these. Seriously, click on the link and go look her pictures. It will instantly make you […]
Life Lately #2
So I took a short break from the blog. Mainly for two reasons—1. I haven’t had too many interesting things happen and 2. I’ve been very busy lately. I was in a different town and/or state five weekends in a row, the Fourth of July holiday break, our friends that we visited out in Colorado […]
Banana [Overload] Cupcakes
I was in the mood for baking this past weekend…and for bananas. So I made Banana Cupcakes. They didn’t quite look like the picture below [from the recipe I followed], but maybe with some more practice they’ll eventually look like this. I have come to terms with the fact that I need some major practice […]