A food blog balancing sweet treats & healthy eats.
When I was in college, I lived in an apartment with three other girls. It was an incredibly run-down apartment, and it was near impossible to keep clean. And I don’t mean that in a lazy way. I think if you spent a day cleaning it, with no furniture or items in it, it would…
One of my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipes is this one, which used date syrup from Trader Joe’s. Tragically, Trader Joe’s stopped selling the date syrup. There’s substitutes for date syrup, I’m sure. Or even other places to get it. I don’t know how much of how good the cookies were was related to the…
My mom recently got me a subscription to the most delightful monthly newspaper: Baking Nation. A newspaper delivered every month filled with baking related history, recipes, puzzles, horoscopes, and tips and tricks. What more could you ask of a newspaper?? Nothing, I say. There’s also a cozy mystery story with monthly installments, so it’s really…
I waxed on about my new baby Bundt pan a few weeks ago. It really is a delightful addition to my kitchen. It would be ridiculous to make an entire hot chocolate Bundt cake in the middle of the week, with no holiday or occasion. But a little mini Bundt on a random Tuesday? It’s…
I have been in a bit of a capital-F Funk recently. I can only blame the February doldrums. Perhaps I was too bold in talking about how great a year 2025 was, and I needed to be humbled. There’s been the big things. As in, we started the year with Minneapolis being the most politically-charged…
This Valentine’s Day, I’m celebrating love. Not love for me. Love for my dear personal friend, Biberty Butumal Guy. In the latest Liberty Mutual ad, they’ve brought back the Biberty Butumal guy, and he’s found love! Finally, a rom-com story I can be invested in. A couple I can root for. Biberty Guy and Biberty…
Every year, I buy Hershey kisses to make our classic Christmas cookie, peanut blossoms. Inevitably, I end up with extra Hershey kisses. Which, I could just eat. And sometimes, that’s how the bag gets finished. Other times, they sit in the pantry for far too long. But this year, as I clean out the pantry,…
I made a version of this football cookie cake for the season opener this year, and I made it Packers themed. It was delicious, but I didn’t take any non-iPhone photos because it got consumed. I also put the sprinkles on top after it was baked, and they just sort of sat oddly on top,…