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Cheesy Pickle Beer Bread

I’ve said before that this is more a baking journal than a baking blog, and that means detailing some of the boring bakes. The flops, if you will. In my journey to discover more exciting beer breads, I decided to try a savory one. When I saw pickle beer in the store, I figured it…

Creamy Chocolate Coffee Passion Fruit Bars

I don’t typically retool recipes so quickly, as I’ve got other things on my baking agenda, but the idea for these bars really stuck in my head. I want to submit them for the State Fair, and so I want to get the recipe ready and perfect before I lock them in. So even though…

Croissant Cinnamon Rolls

This past weekend was Mother’s Day, and that of course meant a Mother’s Day brunch! Which of course means a brunch baked good! My mom got to request the treat, of course, and she brought up how Amelia’s Bread in Indianapolis makes croissant cinnamon rolls. I accepted the challenge very gladly. I haven’t had one…

Banana Brown Butter Baby Bundt Coffee Cake

Banana Brown Butter Baby Bundt… say that five times fast! I am pretty good about getting through my weekly bananas – five or six for the week, for before all my runs. But sometimes, the bananas are not on the same schedule as me, and I wind up with one that gets too brown. And…

Lemon Poppyseed Muffins

I’ve said it many times before, but one thing about me is that I am not going to let any ingredient or food go to waste. So when I had a scant 1/2 cup of ricotta left in the fridge, I knew I had to do something with it. And you know what that no-waste…

White Chocolate Berry Beer Bread

I’m in my Beer Bread Era, as the kids’ say. I’m experimenting with different kinds of beer in preparation for the State Fair, and this time, I used a triple berry sour. Naturally, I mixed in dried blueberries and white chocolate (sort of like those old Milk Bar cookies). White Chocolate Berry Beer Bread is…

Butterbeer Kiss Cookies

Just a few months ago, I made these Cherry Blossoms, the first time I’d ever made a Hershey Kiss cookie other than a classic Peanut Blossom. And now I’m making these Butterbeer Kiss Cookies! I suppose I could call them Butterbeer Blossoms, but that felt like a sort of unclear title. When I saw these…

Chocolate Beer Bread

I have been sort of… bored recently. There’s lots of things coming up on my calendar to do, but at the moment I don’t have any big projects or anything. Not a lot of going on but the doldrums of the day to day. It can wear on you. Or, at least, it wears on…

Coffee Chocolate Passion Fruit Bars

A few years ago, I don’t even remember when, I tried Milk Bar’s Coffee Chocolate Passion Fruit layer cake. My mind was blown. I’m fairly certain I tried it before working for them, so it would have had to have been during an NYC visit, before they limited their cake selections so drastically. So it…

Manchego and Date Scones

I’d like to shoutout my best friend from college, who introduced me to Manchego cheese. We used to get blocks of it at the Trader Joe’s near campus for movie night snacks. Manchego cheese and crackers, maybe a fruit, and… not a lot else. What can I say, that’s just crazy life of college students…

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