Chocolate Gingerbread Cupcakes with a tangy mascarpone frosting are a festive dessert for the holidays. Gingerbread cookies can be crunchy and dry, but these Chocolate Gingerbread Cupcakes are moist, soft, and flavorful. You may have read our last post about Christmas bread pudding (or if you haven’t, go read it now!), but knowing our family,…
Peanut Butter Blossoms
Peanut Butter Blossoms are a classic Christmas cookie. Our family makes them every single year! Soft peanut butter cookies are rolled in sugar, with a Hershey kiss pressed onto the top while the cookies are still warm. These Peanut Butter Blossoms are infused with generous quantities of peanut butter, butter, sugar, and tradition….
Chocolate Crinkle Candy Cane Kiss Cookies
Chocolate Crinkle Candy Cane Kiss Cookies are a fun, festive treat. Chocolate cookies are rolled in powdered sugar and topped with a Hersey’s peppermint kiss. I think these have got to be the most festive-looking cookies I have ever baked. Just get a load of that cheerfully crinkled chocolate! Those bright red peppermint…
Nutella Peanut Butter Banana Bread
Use up your mushy, over-ripe bananas by baking them with peanut butter and swirling it all with Nutella to make Nutella Peanut Butter Banana Bread. It’s sweet, peanut buttery, chocolatey, and full of banana flavor – aka the ideal breakfast. So I think we all have had the experience of having too many bananas in…
Biscoff Pumpkin Bread
A moist loaf of pumpkin bread is swirled with Biscoff cookie butter and sprinkled with mini chocolate chips on top. Biscoff Pumpkin Bread is full of spiced autumnal flavor, and such a cozy thing to enjoy on a fall or early winter morning. I’m clearly not over Pumpkin Season yet. I think this song sums up our…
Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls
This post comes to you two weeks delayed. Originally, I was disappointed with how the pictures of these Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls turned out, so I decided not to post about them. But yesterday when I was scanning back through them, I liked them better than I did initially. (Do you find this ever happens…
The Brownie Doctor: Parent Trap Brownies
Introducing Parent Trap Brownies, aka “Papers Suck and I Desperately Need Some Brain Food Brownies.” With the onset of the Christmas season comes the onset of its nemesis, cause of crushed rather than ’tis the season spirits: finals. Luckily, I have a prodigious arsenal of antidotes, a large number of which start with “brown” and end in “ie.” Do…
Sweet Potato Casserole Cupcakes
The Batter Thickens is on vacation. (Sweet words on a sweet blog.) That means we’re united, ready for a week full of joint baking projects, joint posts, and sharing (a little too much) food together. [Speaking of joint posts, this post comes to you in two voices: Molly’s will be left-aligned; Audrey’s will be right-aligned…
Butterfinger Cookies
According to my brother, the perfect cookie is a simple and uncomplicated chocolate chip cookie. He gets impatient with Audrey’s and my inclination to play around with multiple flavors and complex baking procedures (browning butter, chilling dough, stuffing centers) and if he had his way, all we would ever bake would be Toll House Chocolate…
Tennis Racket Cake
Make this Tennis Racket Cake for the tennis lover in your life or for your next tennis team end-of-season party! For a larger crowd, make tennis ball cupcakes to go with it. So, I actually made this Tennis Racket Cake a couple weeks ago, but we didn’t have this blog then, and I still want…