A food blog balancing sweet treats & healthy eats.
This is a riff off of Christina Tosi’s Corn Blueberry Sheet Cake, which has become a bit of a classic for my family. This riff is… very similar to the original cake, but just a bit simpler – only one 9×9 pan, just a crumb, and just one layer with frosting on top. But, it…
There was a phase in my sophomore year of high school, when Molly was living at home post-college, that my family got very in to Green Goddess dressing. My sister started making it from scratch, and I was dipping every vegetable in it. Like, every vegetable. (But, mainly carrots.) It was a mainstay in our…
I recently saw this recipe posted on Bon Appetit, and was immediately intrigued. I think Nerds has gotten a major PR boost from their Nerds Gummy Clusters. Like, Nerds used to just be a pretty boring candy that was just flavored sugar in an inconvenient form. But, Nerds Gummy Clusters are way more fun and…
I recently used up a bunch of my cherry tomatoes making tomato cobbler. But then, guess what? My beefsteak tomatoes needed harvesting and I needed to do something with those! And Joy the Baker clearly knows her tomatoes, because when I saw this tomato tarte, I knew it would be the answer to my continued…
For a while in high school, I feel like this Tomato Cobbler from Joy the Baker was in my family’s rotation for dinners. It’s one of my favorite Joy the Baker recipes, but I sort of forgot about it for a while. However, this summer, I’ve been growing tomatoes in my backyard. When I had…
I mentioned a few weeks ago how my sister was requesting chocolate desserts, and I realized I hadn’t made anything super chocolate-forward in a while. These brownies were a response to that. I decided to make the darkest chocolate brownies I could. Because, also, how else do you make plain brownies exciting enough to stand…
I find most cut out cookies to be… very boring. Sorry. Just, in the world of cookies, they are so plain. The frosting is usually the best part. But the “Cookies, rolled flat before baking” category at the State Fair specifies no icing. So… it’s a small box to get creative in. And when the…
The only State Fair category for oatmeal cookies is “Oatmeal cookies with no mix-ins.” Which seems crazy to me! Oatmeal cookies are all about the mix-ins! It’s always oatmeal raisin, and then having oatmeal chocolate chip seems so next level. But without mix-ins, you do really need to think about that dough. So, naturally… I…