The Butterfinger frosting on these Butterfinger Crunch Brownie Cups is made out of a magical combination of melted candy corn and peanut butter that somehow tastes EXACTLY like Butterfinger. A perfect Halloween dessert. Halloween, similar to Christmas, is a very magical holiday. Wizards, vampires, spooky things. In this case, our magic is mixing candy corn…
Archives for October 2014
Oatmeal Sandwich Cookies
Oatmeal Sandwich Cookies with peanut butter filling from Joy the Baker’s Homemade Decadence cookbook. Soft, chewy oatmeal cookies with smooth and creamy peanut butter frosting. Absolute perfection. Joy the Baker’s new cookbook Homemade Decadence came out last week, and these cookies were the first thing I made. It was a difficult decision, to be sure,…
Inside-Out Pumpkin Cheesecake Cupcakes
In the last few years, fall has become so super-saturated with pumpkin that it feels like it’s impossible to do anything new with it anymore. Pumpkin coffee? Done. Pumpkin cookies? Done. Pumpkin cupcakes? Done. Pumpkin chapstick? Probably done, but probably not too tasty. But we keep wanting more…more and more and more, so much more…
Apple Butter Cheesecake Bars
Apple butter is a perfect fall flavor that I think is just so overlooked. We’re so inundated with pumpkin and squash and cinnamon and stuff that apple butter gets forgotten. Poor little apple butter. The quietly brilliant spread that just doesn’t get the attention or acknowledgement it deserves. Well I am here to give attention…
Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Banana Filling
Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Banana Filling are a delicious triage of chocolate, peanut butter, and banana flavor. A moist chocolate cupcake is filled with a peanut butter banana custard filling, then frosted with a peanut butter buttercream. Last week, I did a presentation at my school about this blog. My school’s kinda tiny and…
Pumpkin Cookie Swirled Brownies
Pumpkin Cookie Swirled Brownies are brownies swirled with pumpkin cinnamon chip cookie dough. Chewy cookie + pumpkin flavor + dense chocolate brownie = autumnal heaven in dessert form. By now, you’ve probably had to read too many posts of people fangirling over pumpkin and pumpkin season and how much they love it and how they…