I've been on a bit of a cookie binge lately. Right before school started, our incoming class of students threw together an impromptu BBQ to get everyone together and be social. I wanted to make a good first (baking) impression on my classmates, so I wanted to bring a couple of different homemade cookies for everyone to nosh on, the first of...

Yesterday pumpkin muffins. Today blueberry muffins and ice cream. I might be a little seasonally confused. For some reason I just really don't care to eat baked goods after two days. It doesn't matter whether they are store bought or homemade, but there is something about knowing that a baked good is fresh that makes it taste better. Plus,...

It should come as no surprise that I love my Dahlia Bakery Cookbook. Apparently these peanut butter on peanut butter sandwich cookies (basically a soft and much larger version of a store-bought Nutter Butter cookie) named Nora Ephron cookies after the late rom-com director tasted one while filming Sleepless in Seattle and declared them to be her...

These are the last dessert to be produced from my Bellevue kitchen— the place where this blog and my true love of cooking and baking began. I was just starting to bake when we left Houston, but given my free time once we moved, my passion really blossomed. So while I am excited to be living in a new place, I am also feeling nostalgic for...

Tomorrow is the big reveal of the dessert featuring cookies, and today's post features chocolate cookies with white chocolate chips. I always think of these cookies as the opposite of chocolate chip cookies. An inside-out chocolate chip cookie, you may say, since they have a dark base, light mix-in versus light base, dark mix-in. But really...

I'm honestly trying to place my fingers on what makes an M\&M cookie different than a chocolate chip cookie, and I can't quite do it. I'm not sure if it's actually in the dough or just in my head, but they are definitely distinctly different in my book, and it's not just in the mix-ins. I have always thought chocolate chip to be my favorite, but...

Today begins the first in a series of posts that documents the several day journey I took to make the dessert for our going away party. I'll give you hint as to what it was (in case you weren't there)— it involved cookies. Lots and lots of cookies! Stick around for the next 3 days to see how it all comes together! Instant pudding mix seems...

Funfetti cupcakes are the perfect celebratory dessert for a birthday, or a great treat to insert a little happiness and color into a plain ol' weekday. I made these cupcakes for the second reason, and am posting for the first reason because today is the blog's 2nd birthday! I can't believe it's been two years since that pizza night, only a...

I am officially a baking supply packrat. During my last winter baking spree, I bought a bag of seasonal dark chocolate and mint chips and never used them. In fact I completely forgot about them. When cleaning out the cabinets for the move I stumbled upon the bag and knew I had to do something with them. I couldn't let a whole bag of special...

When I read about these honey roasted peanut and butterscotch cookies from Averie Cooks I couldn't get that flavor combination (or those pictures) out of my head. So I decided to recreate them in my own kitchen and add a little of my own flair to them— oatmeal and white chocolate chips. There's not really enough oatmeal to qualify them as a...