We had a potluck style lab party (and super competitive trivia competition) with all of our undergraduate RAs to celebrate the end of the quarter yesterday. Naturally I brought dessert. The base of these cookies are the same as your standard white chocolate macadamia nut cookies, except I swapped the nuts for dried cranberries for a festive...

I can't decide whether I like this apple pie or the Southern Comfort apple pie from the summer of 2012 better. I guess what is really clear here is that both contained alcohol, and both were outstanding variations of this classic fruit pie. As with the SoCo pie, the liquor cooks off and just leave behind a subtle flavoring that really enaahnces...

This cheesecake it the epitome of Thanksgiving desserts. It's basically all of your favorite Turkey Day (dessert) flavors rolled into one— a gingersnap-pecan crust, pumpkin white chocolate cream cheese filing, topped with sugared cranberries. If you aren't a big fan of cranberries then those can be omitted (and maybe replaced with cinnamon or...

Cupcakes were supposed to solve the whole "I don't want to make a whole cake because I will eat it whole, so I'll just have an individual sized dessert instead" problem. Except that when you make a batch of cupcakes you still end up with at least a dozen. And if you try to bake a single cupcake in a full sized tin and leave the other 11 empty,...

We ended up buying Halloween candy this year and not passing a single piece out. Trick or treaters in our apartment were only supposed to knock on doors with a special sign that we didn't take the time to go get (mostly because we didn't  know about it until right before Halloween eve). Instead, Dustin and I went out for amazing hamburgers at...

One of the labs on campus has a full kitchen in their workspace. Back in the 1970's, the workspace was an apartment  where researchers used to conduct experiments during which they'd watch people in a "natural habitat," so to speak. Now those kind of experiments don't really get done anymore in psychology, so the lab space was passed on, leaving...

Sorry for the late post today! I'm sure you are dying with anticipation to see my creation for Dustin's birthday. Well, here it is in all it's glory— a mint chocolate chip cake! I know Dustin loves mint chocolate chip ice cream, so I decided to turn the flavors into a birthday cake— a three layered chocolate cake frosted with Andes mint...

Happy Halloween! I've already professed my love for skillet cookies before and how they bring such nostalgia for the early days of my relationship with Dustin. For an updated version, perfect for Halloween, I decided to infuse the cake with pumpkin and fall spices along with pumpkin spice M\&Ms. I also wanted to frost it with a maple frosting,...

Dustin argued that these cookies weren't different enough from the chocolate chip version I made last month for them to legitimately come out of my kitchen, since I almost never repeat desserts. But I say these cookies have a significant twist to them, plus I still had half a bag of Rolos sitting in the cabinet. Snickerdoodles are synonymous...

Cookie batch number 2 for the new student BBQ were simple, soft baked sugar cookies studded with lots of sprinkles. I wanted a fairly simple cookie that pretty much everyone likes and would provide a nice contrast to the salted caramel chocolate chip cookies of yesterday. I also thought sprinkles would be a fun and festive way to celebrate the...