Audrey, Author at The Batter Thickens

White Chocolate Berry Beer Bread

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…

Butterbeer Kiss Cookies

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…

Chocolate Beer Bread

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…

Coffee Chocolate Passion Fruit Bars

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…

Manchego and Date Scones

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…

Ovaltine Muffins

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…

Lemon Coconut Old Fashioned Donuts

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…

Coconut Brown Butter Cookies

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….

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