Cinnamon Roll Banana Bread
I could hardly make it through this year without posting a banana bread recipe, could I? Somehow, this is actually the first banana bread I’ve baked all year. Layed with cinnamon roll filling and topped [...]
Cookies and Cream Snowballs
Today’s recipe is a cookie recipe, but it was a little hard to figure out what to call them! These types of cookies seem to go by at least a dozen names [...]
Irish Coffee Bread Pudding
I made this recipe for St. Patrick’s Day, looking to find a way to combine all of the flavors of an Irish coffee - whiskey, brown sugar, cream, and, of course, coffee - into a bread pudding. [...]
Cinnamon Matcha Hot Chocolate
My first introduction to Japanese confectionery was when my Japanese professor returned from a trip to visit her family and brought back nama yatsuhashi for the class. Yatsuhashi are a regional specialty of Kyoto and a traditional [...]
Buckwheat Fruitcake with Cherries, Dates, and Walnuts
While I’ve never been a fan of fruitcake (especially with those red and green cherries,) I am a big fan of buckwheat. Mostly I had it in pancakes and occasionally soba noodles, and I had never really [...]
Hazelnut Coffee Turtle Bars
Half candy and half cookie, these bars have a bottom layer of Kona coffee shortbread, a middle layer of chopped hazelnuts coated in caramel, and a top layer of milk chocolate ganache. When all the layers are [...]
Cherry Almond Brownie Cookies
Originally I had planned to make a low-sugar chocolate cookie recipe using almond butter, but somewhere along the line these turned into chocolate cookies that I actually enjoyed eating. These cookies are chocolatey and rich, but the [...]
White Chocolate Cheesecake Brownies
Brownies are the first thing I ever learned to bake. My mom’s brownie recipe was also the first recipe I ever memorized, and while I’ve made other brownie recipes, I always go back to the same one. [...]
Chocolate Coconut Crumb Cake with Vegan Option
I’ve noticed that I’ve had a few visitors from Pinterest and Instagram lately, so it doesn’t feel quite as much like a ghost town here anymore! If you’ve come here from social media, thank you so much [...]
Cowboy Cookie Scones
While developing this recipe, I realized that I have never actually eaten cowboy cookies in my life. I’m generally not a big fan of lots of crunchy add-ins, especially after having jaw surgery - except when it [...]