This tart… oh my gosh. Chocolate shortbread crust + homemade salted caramel sauce + chocolate ganache + fleur de sel. That all adds up to one heck of a dessert! I’ve had this recipe...
My sister’s birthday is at the end of April, and I normally do birthday baking for everyone in our family. However, this year it fell during the week that we moved, so my mom...
picture A few weeks ago, I bought a canister of honey roasted peanuts for the sole purpose of chopping them up and pressing them into the sides of my peanut butter layer cake with...
picture I’m not much of a cocktail drinker at all, but I had my first mudslide a couple of years after college, when I met a girlfriend out for dinner at a popular chain restaurant....
picture These homemade Drumsticks have been in the works in my brain for quite a long time now… since January, actually. I can’t remember if it was just before or just after having Joseph,...
picture Back in the hey day of the ’90s, my family routinely went to Olive Garden to celebrate birthdays. I mean, what was better than the salad and breadsticks? Back then, I would argue not much...
I grew up in a small town that is pretty rural, although it didn’t feel that way at the time. We had a (small) grocery store, THREE pizza shops and a sprawling park full of...
picture Growing up, there was exactly one peanut butter cookie recipe that I ever ate. Well, two, if you count peanut butter blossoms… they aren’t really peanut butter cookies, but they might be one...
We’re still in the thick of summer (hello disgusting heat and humidity wave!), which means there is still plenty of time for s’mores to be eaten. I love a good ol’ big marshmallow charred...
For as much as I love peanut butter, it’s pretty surprising that I’ve never attempted a peanut butter cake before now. I think I’ve tried to put peanut butter into just about every other...
I’m not sure what it is about summer, but it gives me the urge to make all kinds of colorful, fun treats. I’ve been seeing ice cream cone cupcakes for years and finally decided to...
When it comes to making pie, I tend to procrastinate and put it off, and I’m not really sure why. Every time I get down to actually making one, I’m reminded of how simple, uncomplicated and...
