In addition to celebrating St. Patty's Day with Bailey's cheesecake bars, I also made Guinness ice cream. It's amazing how much I despise beer, but how much I love things made with with beer. The milk chocolate softens the flavor of the Guinness into a perfect, made-in-heaven match. It was unseasonably warm (hotter than it normally is in summer)...

We've been meaning to get back to Griffith park ever since our last visit. Grabbing cookies in the area was a perfect excuse to take the pups on a picnic. We grabbed sandwiches and one of the chocolate chip cookie contenders from Joan's on Third, and then fought traffic to pick up a second cookie from Proof Bakery. The cookie-off took place in...

Last year for St. Patty's Day I made the Momofuku Grasshopper pie and two years ago I made these Guinness cupcakes with Bailey's frosting;. I thought it was about time to bring out the Bailey's again this time as the star in the form of cheesecake rather than frosting. I was pleasantly surprised at how perfect these bars came out. The creamy...

Instead of using milk or buttermilk in waffles, I decided to puree some raspberries and use them as the main liquid ingredient. I really didn't expect to end up with thick, puffy waffles, but these were some of the thickest, puffiest ones I've made to date (we don't have a Belgian waffle maker, so our waffles tend to be relatively thin but...

The Philly Cheesesteak Sloppy Joes of a few weeks ago were a resounding success, so if your brain works the way that ours do, the next natural step is to take another of our favorite flavor combinations and transition it into a sloppy joe. What do you think about the flavors of buffalo chicken? We think Frank's and blue cheese make just about...

During our chocolate chip cookie challenge, I may have been a little bit naughty and picked up an extra banana split cookie from one of our stops. It's as if banana pudding and chocolate chip cookies had a delicious baby together with some maraschino cherries mixed in to make it a banana split. Within the week, I was already recreating this...

For our first cookie stops on the East side (remember East is 405, so not really LA in the slightest), we hit up Milk Jar Cookies and The Sycamore Kitchen.   Milk Jar Cookies is a relatively new cookie-centric shop with a very cutesy decor. Their cookies are THICK with what Dustin described as an almost biscuit-like texture towards the edges....

Not going to lie. I only made that easy King Cake monkey bread so I could chop it up and add the pieces as mix-ins to a tangy cream cheese ice cream with a cinnamon swirl that tastes exactly like filling from a cinnamon roll. Blue Bell makes their own version of Mardi Gras King Cake Ice Cream, but since it is nowhere to be seen anywhere near...

I'm all for celebrating Mardi Gras and Fat Tuesday because Mardi Gras means one thing to me...King Cake! King Cake with cream cheese filling was a big hit a few years ago, but I wanted to simplify the whole process, turning it into a pull-apart style monkey bread. So before Dustin left for San Antonio over the weekend, we celebrated early with...

I was having a rough day, so it was decided that it was time for another round of our cookie-off. Both of these locales, Tavern and Farmshop, are walking distance from our apartment. Can you say dangerous? Tavern is a high-class restaurant and bakery known for being a place where celebrities have meetings with their agents. Their cookies are...