Chocolate Chunk Peppermint Cookies

Chocolate Chunk Peppermint Cookies

  This is my all-time favorite holiday cookie!  I'm usually not the biggest cookie fan, but with these, I can eat it by the handful.  What I love about these chocolate chunk peppermint cookies is that it is so easy to make.  You can make the dough ahead of time and bake when ready.  Or [...]

Chocolate Chip Muffins

Chocolate Chip Muffins

Nothing says "Good Morning" like a warm, fresh out of the oven, chocolate chip muffin.  This recipe is so easy, it can be made for the days when you don't have a lot of time in the morning, but still want something baked, fluffy, and delicious.  There is an optional sugar topping, which creates that [...]

Loaded Baked Gnocchi

Loaded Baked Gnocchi

  Everybody knows I love gnocchi.  This year for Valentine's Day, my boyfriend and I decided to cook the same meal and enjoy it together over Skype (curse you, 2000 miles).  Confession time, I lost the recipe link he sent me 3 hours before I was supposed to make the darn thing.  All that I [...]

Madeleines

Madeleines

Madeleines are probably the easiest cute-looking dessert you can possibly make.  From beginning to end, the process only takes about 45 minutes, and you can have really great madeleines for tea time, dessert time, anytime.  In order to make the cute shell shape, you are going to need to invest in a madeleine pan.  You [...]

Cranberry Muffins

Cranberry Muffins

  I've been baking a lot with cranberries lately.  I don't know what it is.  But cranberries really hit the spot for me when it comes to baked goods.  It has the perfect combination of sweet & tart.  It is the perfect addition in these lovely muffins.  These muffins are so incredibly moist (thank you, [...]

Apple Butter

Apple Butter

  Over the holidays, I gifted all my aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. with homemade apple butter.  In my opinion, food gifts are among the best things you could give someone.  Not only will it be used (or eaten), I'm 100% that they will love the work that you put into it.  Since I live in [...]

Scones

Scones

  I used to hate scones as a kid.  My mom would buy some from the Asian supermarket that were always kind of dry and mealy.  In grad school, I had one that was quite wonderful, and I started scouring the internet for the perfect scone recipe.  After tweaking and tweaking, I have the perfect scone recipe! [...]

BBQ & Beer Pulled Chicken

BBQ & Beer Pulled Chicken

  When I was a vegetarian in college & grad school, arguably the only meat item that I missed was good old barbecue.  Especially, BBQ + pulled meat.  Now that I'm once again a carnivore, I decided to revisit this lovely dish that has been missing in my life for some time. I love this recipe [...]

French Macarons

French Macarons

Hello readers!  I've been so busy in the past few months (moving back home and all that jazz), that I haven't really found time to be in the kitchen.  Well, that hiatus stopped this week when I was commissioned by my dear older brother to make hundreds of macarons for his wedding this weekend.  Yes, [...]

Tiramisu

Tiramisu

  Folks, get ready for a really long post.  Today, I will be sharing with you not one, but two different ways to make the classic Italian dessert that is tiramisu.  It is one of my favorite desserts and one of the easiest to make.  Classic tiramisu uses raw eggs in the recipe.  In my opinion, that is [...]