A food blog balancing sweet treats & healthy eats.
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…
I recently asked my family if they had any baked good requests, and my brother randomly said, “muffins.” I do not know where that request came from, but I will always fulfill a request. So the next day, I whipped up these Ovaltine Muffins, and they were a quick and delicious hit. The Ovaltine makes…
I made these Old Fashioned Old Fashioneds about 4 years ago now, as one of my first “return to the blog” posts. In many ways, it feels like far longer ago than just 4 years. But regardless, I still think about those donuts frequently. They were so good. And I remember being pleasantly surprised by…
These cookies have a lot of coconut in them. They were the perfect reason to use up the shredded coconut in my pantry, and also because I am on a coconut kick at the moment. Coconut just… keeps sounding good. Not sure why, but no point questioning it. Coconut is good. Brown butter is good….
My favorite flavor of the new M&M “bakery” line is the peanut butter cinnamon roll flavor. Eating one of the M&Ms conjured up the taste of my favorite sandwich: peanut butter apple butter on cinnamon swirl bread. There was no apple butter element in the M&Ms, but the peanut butter and cinnamon really worked. Cinnamon…
Early Spring is such a back and forth time here in the Midwest. Some days it’s beautiful, sunny, 60 degrees. Other days (or weeks), it’s 35 degrees and raining/snowing/sleeting. Which is particularly brutal after the aforementioned beautiful 60 degree days. Anyways, lemon feels like a very bright, sunshine-y, spring flavor. So even if this week…
I write this Carrot Cake Cupcakes post as I wear a sweatshirt that my niece has confirmed has not one but two carrots on it. And two days after I purchased the first item of new clothing that I’ve purchased in… probably a year? I found this carrot sweater vest and decided it was worth…
M&Ms have released new flavors! Three of them, all “bakery” themed. I, naturally, had to get them all to try, and to bake with. Whenever brands do this, I end up falling for it. Even if they’re underwhelming. However… these flavors were actually not underwhelming!! They were all very tasty and spot-on to their flavors….