A food blog balancing sweet treats & healthy eats.
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… 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…