It may sound a little crazy to put cayenne pepper in cookies, but chocolate and spice are a match made in heaven. Just go look at the aisle of fancy chocolates in the grocery store if you don't believe me. I was a little bored pretty late one evening, putting off reading I wasn't all that interested in completing. Dustin was out of town and the...

I am completely happy with our decision to move to LA. For my career it was definitely the right way to go. I am still a bit regretful we don't get New York bagels, Momofuku Milk Bar, or black and white cookies. There would have been a few upsides to going to grad school in NYC. I am remedying these losses with my Momofuku cookbook and...

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...

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...

We had great success making molten chocolate lava cakes last year around Valentine's Day. This year we decided to change it up ever so slightly by making white chocolate lava cakes with a hint of lime for a little extra kick. Top with ice cream and fudge sauce for a decadent treat. Things have been crazy busy around here, so I'll keep it...

If the Texans weren't going to make it to the Super Bowl, and let's face it, we realized quite early on this season that that wasn't going to happen, there is no team other than the Seahawks we would have rather picked to win it all. Since the Texans were usually the early game and the Seahawks the late game, when we lived in Seattle we'd...

Eating these cookies warm from the oven is the perfect way to cozy up on a winter's afternoon. Granted it's not really winter where I am. I think we dipped into the mid 60s today. While the rest of the country is freezing (apparently every state including Hawaii experienced freezing temperatures!) , LA is enjoying its usual beautiful, perfect...

We rang in 2014 with a quiet evening watching the ball drop in NYC, drinking and eating champagne in cupcake form, and hanging with our girls. Yup, you heard me right. Bonnie now has a little sister named Bella we adopted a few days ago. Maybe we are insane because Bonnie is such a good dog, and we are about to add a lot more crazy to our...

In addition to the Oreo truffles, I wanted to make my signature sugar cookie. But rolling out cookies kind of seemed like a pain in the butt I didn't feel like dealing with. So basically I dumped sugar cookie dough into 13"x9" pan and baked them. It worked out nicely. I expected these to be more like the texture of a Lofthouse cookie and with...

I really enjoyed making the pumpkin biscotti back in October, so this holiday season I decided I would make biscotti again with a slightly different twist using the ever so popular holiday flavor combination of chocolate and peppermint. I intended to use these cute little Christmas tree sprinkles I have, but when I went looking through the...