When I visited my parents in Evansville last month, I ate a delicious cannoli, and it reminded me of this adorable recipe I'd seen somewhere long ago. After a little bit of searching, I found the original recipe for these awesome mini cannoli cups. Cannolis seem like a real pain because you have to fry the shell, but this recipe is all about the...

Also known as those addicitve, soft,  grocery store, sugar cookies, decorated with frosting for your favorite holiday, and plenty of ingredients you can't pronounce. I never knew what to call them until now. I also never thought they could be recreated at home, but you can get pretty close. Dustin said the powdery texture of the grocery store...

Not being in Texas anymore, I have come to appreciate how lucky we were to get such fantastic peaches for fantastic prices. HEB also had such great deals on enormous, juicy, Hill Country peaches. Here peaches are tiny and not quite as juicy (still tasty though), and cost $4 a pound. Ouch. Nonetheless, we bit the bullet and spent a ridiculous...

Actually these are brown butter, candied maple bacon, chocolate chip cookies sweetened with maple syrup and chock full of toasted pecans, but it seemed a little wordy for the title. While the last chocolate chip cookies I made were light and fresh, these were anything but. These were sweet, nutty, salty, chocolatey, savory and just plain full of...

I have grown to appreciate the finer desserts in life, but when it comes to ice cream, I still like my nostalgic, childhood favorites the best. Cake batter, chocolate chip cookie dough, and ice creams based on other desserts are the best. Even better is when two dessert flavors are combined together. Trust me I thought about making some eggless...

Seeing all of the fresh mint bounding from the our little garden boxes in our patios inspired me to use the fresh, crisp herb from our own backyard in my baking. You've seen mint chocolate chip ice cream, so why can't you have mint chocolate chip cookies? Well now you can? These cookies don't have that artificial mint flavoring in them, but...

Happy July 4th! Yesterday was about apple pie. Today is about blueberry and strawberry pie. Topped with a star crust for a little extra American flair instead of a boring old lattice pattern. I couldn't decide whether to make a blueberry or a strawberry pie, so in the end I decided to just the combine the two. Good choice. This is my first...

Nothing says America or fourth of July like apple pie. Nothing makes an apple pie better than adding Southern Comfort. Seriously this SoCo apple pie from The Pastry Queen cookbook— by Rebecca Rather of the now closed Rather Sweet Bakery and Cafe in Fredericksburg, Texas— might be the best apple pie on the planet. It is by no means your average...

I have a deep philosophical question for you that Dustin presented to me while we were devouring this? Do you like the cookies in your banana pudding mushy or hard? Well if you like them to retain their crunchy texture, then this recipe is for you! Personally I like them both ways. There's something about Nilla Wafers getting all mushy at the...

Why oh why didn't I buy more than one bag of Birthday Cake Oreos? I finally found them several months after searching like a madwoman and resigning myself to the fact that I'd never find them, and then I only buy one bag? I think I was trying to convince myself to eat healthier. Then of course I stuff them into white chocolate chip cookies....