In the final Lord of the Rings movie, they don’t do a lot of eating. And they really don’t eat much dessert. Not shocking, considering they’re waging war and trudging through Mordor. I don’t think Mordor has many great bakeries. (The Orcs are not a great market I guess?) You’d think they might have a…
Corn Blueberry Cookies
I feel like a presidential candidate or something, because I am now “announcing my intention” to enter into the State Fair baking competition this year. I’ve been pouring over the rules and trying to make sense of all the categories, and now I’m trying to come up with what I want to enter. I’ve got…
Strawberry Lemon Cookies
I am back at it again with my trusty cookie recipe! Can’t be surprised any more, can we? It’s just an old reliable recipe at this point. This time, I took the cookie base from these, and the frosting from these. And then, voila! Strawberry Lemon Cookies. Strawberry Lemon is an underrated flavor combination, in…
Marzipan Chocolate Cookies
Over the years, I have made a few baked goods that pay homage to the Knusperflakes Ritter Sport flavor. Cookies and brownies mainly. But I realized recently that I have not given the same treatment to my other favorite Ritter Sport flavor: Marzipan! I may have to rank Marzipan above Knusperflakes in terms of favorite…
Birthday Cake Cookies
For all the birthday cake flavored things that exist in this world, it’s rare that you actually make them for a birthday. Because… birthdays usually have actual birthday cake! So, while Milk Bar has endlessly proved that you don’t need to have a birthday to make something birthday cake flavored, when my brother needed a…
Chocolate Root Beer Float Cookies
Long-time readers of this blog (my family), may remember these Root Beer Float Cupcakes of 2013. They were memorable for a few reasons: my first time baking with root beer extract and finding out how good the combination was, and a big breakthrough moment of getting the photos accepted to the site Foodgawker (which was…
Buttermilk Sugar Cookies with Maple Frosting (AKA Pancake Cookies)
This year, I got buttermilk powder for Christmas! When I learned buttermilk powder existed, I immediately began thinking of its potential uses, namely as a substitute for regular milk powder in Milk Bar recipes. (I also immediately added it to my Christmas list, because novelty grocery items add up!) Milk Bar uses loads of milk…
Hot Chocolate Cookies
In my sophomore year of high school, I decided to really embrace my brother’s advice about high school, which was: none of it matters! Me following that advice took a lot of forms over the last three years of high school, and I have plenty of stories about it. The only update I would give…