A few weeks ago, someone at school brought in a big box of rugelach from a bakery she frequented in her youth. There were all sorts of flavors, but the chocolate one stuck out as the best to me, so I thought I'd do my own version containing Nutella in celebration of Hanukkah. I also made these along with the cranberry white chocolate chip...

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 purchased my annual bottle of molasses recently, deciding now that it is officially appropriate to wear a (light) jacket here in LA (and exactly one month from Christmas as of today), it was time to make molasses cookies. Easier than rolling out gingerbread men, I still get my molasses/ginger/cinnamon fix. I really wanted to make the Dahlia...

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,...

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...

Today is Dustin's birthday (welcome to your mid-20s!)— check back tomorrow for his special birthday dessert! To celebrate Halloween yesterday, we made oatmeal cookies. Oatmeal raisin cookies are gross, well the raisin part anyway. So we replaced raisins with chocolate chips. Instantly better. To make them festive, we pressed white chocolate...

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...

Continuing on the cookie binge of the past few days, I decided to make cookie butter cookies. They are basically like peanut butter cookies, but they are better because the recipe uses cookie butter. Yes, the sillyness of baking cookies using something made from crushed cookies was not lost on me when I decided to bake these. Cookie butter is...