I've sort of dropped the ball again on posting recipes. After we moved we didn't do much cooking from scratch. We were going on a vacation to Boston (another reason for the lack of posting) to visit our friends who were the biggest consumers of my desserts back when we all lived in Washington. I knew I couldn't show up empty handed without...

While not as impressive (or quite as much work) as the awesome Momofuku birthday cake, I wanted to have a cake in the fridge to pull out when Dustin's parents arrived as a belated birthday present. My mom sent me some bake even strips awhile back that I had completely forgotten about, and now I finally had the chance to use them. I will never...

It's been a really long time since we've blogged, but life has been crazy around here while we moved to a new townhouse. For over a week now we've been packing, moving boxes, and unpacking. Cooking, taking pictures, or writing about those things were pretty low on the list of thing we wanted to do after busy days, especially because school and...

We've been making some awesome savory dishes with our Hatch chiles, but the most unique use of the Hatch chiles so far has probably been Hatch chile chocolate chip cookies. Spiciness works well in cookies (seen here), so I figured Hatch chiles could be a good addition to a simple chocolate chip cookie (I haven't made simple chocolate chip...

Tomorrow we start our diet. Our food consumption has been a little out of control lately, so Dustin and I have vowed for the month of August to be more about clean eating. More salads, fewer desserts. I thought about trying the Whole 30 diet where you eliminate sugar and basically eat just lean protein and all the veggies you want in a fashion...

I was originally going to make mini peanut butter cookies with a Nutella filling (once again, to clean out half-used pantry ingredients), but changed my mind immediately when I stumbled across a picture of some awesome looking peanut butter cookies with a Nutella swirl. Sold. Dustin walked into the apartment with dogs after work, and instantly...

Mayonnaise may sound like a strange ingredient to add into a cake, but if you really think about it, it's not. Mayonnaise is simple egg yolks and oil (with maybe a little bit of vinegar or lemon juice thrown in there), ingredients we already use to keep cake moist. Apparently this is a trick that Portillo's in Chicago uses in it's famous...

It's almost "officially" summer! Ice cream is perfect summer dessert, but since that's tough to bring to a party where everything has to sit out, I tried to think of another dessert that would capture the essence of summer. Then I remembered seeing kettle corn cookies at Trader Joe's, and thought sweet and salty kettle corn would be an awesome...

I have honestly never gotten more compliments on a dessert I've made than these cookies. I took two dozen to school one afternoon and within 24 hours, they were all gone. A grassroots canvasser stopped me while walking to my building and asked for one. I ran into one of my cohorts in the elevator, and he requested one. Just about everybody in my...

Stuffed cookies are currently one of my favorite things! There's nothing better than biting into a cookie fresh from the oven and getting a melty surprise in the middle. These are similar in idea to the salted caramel chocolate chip cookies, but with a slightly different chocolate chip cookie recipe that ended up with my puffier cookies (good...