A food blog balancing sweet treats & healthy eats.
4th of July is a tough holiday for bakers. I want to go all-out with a big dessert, but also it’s not a holiday with many established treats. Ice cream always comes to mind, and of course something red, white, and blue. But Bomb Pop can be a somewhat limiting inspiration to go off of….
I have baked many root beer float desserts. Brownies, cookies, ice cream, cupcakes. You know the drill. They are all fairly similar because it’s a pretty straightforward flavor combo. I frequently add chocolate though, because… of course. I was going to add “ice cream cake” to that list, but as I was developing that recipe,…
Happy Father’s Day! My family is travelling this weekend, meaning baking was going to be a little hard for me to fit in. But no matter… I am not someone who is going to let a holiday pass without a treat to celebrate! So I made some cookies for the road. These cookies are a…
When I worked at Milk Bar, people would frequently ask about the Compost Cookie, and I would have to rattle off all eight of the mix-ins. It used to be second nature. But I just tried to do it again, and I only remembered 7 of them! I forgot about the oats! Chocolate chips, butterscotch…
When I was in Iceland, I went to Brauð & co. for their world famous cinnamon rolls, and was very easily tempted by their caramel muesli bun. It was stand-out incredible. Making muesli into streusel is just one of those things that feels so obvious… Like, of course this oat-y cereal should be a streusel….
The day I finished frosting these cupcakes, the only thing on my To-Do List was “frost cherry cola cupcakes.” (I live a very difficult and busy life, clearly.) The night before, I got an email from Dahlia about their menu update… including a new Cherry Cola Cold Brew! I very rarely receive such clear cosmic…
I mentioned in this post that this ice cream cake idea has been on my list to make for years. I have had various iterations of it in my head for a while, but a few summers have come and gone now and I haven’t gotten around to it. Until now! I finally decided I…
I recently purchased some chocolate graham crackers to make a crust for the passion fruit bars I was working on, but I decided to go the chocolate shortbread route. So I had a whole box of chocolate graham crackers to get rid of. What is a girl to do? She’s got to find a way…