I've been wanting to make cake batter fudge, and I've been wanting to make cookies 'n' cream fudge. What would be the smart move here? Combining the two and making cake batter cookies 'n' cream fudge, of course! Inspired by Birthday Cake Oreos (I used them all up making this fudge, so I promise I'm done using them in recipes for awhile), these...

Traveling for nearly three straight weeks was disorienting, and I'm finally feeling up to cooking and baking again. We literally had next to zero food in the house and have been eating all of our dinners out. Of course, we always have pantry staples, and I came back with a couple of boxes of Girl Scout cookies after my visit to Indiana. I...

You know that moment when you bite into a restaurant's top dessert, and your eyes roll back in your head. Your taste buds enlighten, and it all comes together in perfect harmony. I have to give props to Erin. Her latest dessert has completly elicited this reaction from me. When I sliced into her chocolate cake, and the molten chocolate oozed...

Pecan sandies were definitely not a cookie I appreciated as a kid. Despite being surrounded by an abundance of them, pecans were not something I fully appreciated until I was a little older and no longer living in Texas where they are plentiful and cheap compared to Seattle. But with a large box arriving from Texas a few weeks ago, I knew I...

Last weekend we went to a Microsoft holiday party (a month after the holiday, but a holiday party nonetheless). I still haven't figured out how Microsoft (or at least Dustin's area of the company) throws a party. This year's theme was a masquerade ball. In theory it was fun, but the execution was not the greatest. Someone dressed as Buddy the...

Bonnie's lips and nose have been incredibly dry lately, whether from her allergies and the medications she's been taking or just the colder weather. But I've been trying to keep her hydrated with coconut oil. I searched and searched for a good substitute to Vaseline since she tends to completely lick off anything I place within reach of her...

Basically these are blondie/white chocolate macadamia nut version of these delicious treats. These blondies are equally tasty; however the flavors of the two layers are not nearly as distinct in flavor or visuals as the original, old-school version. The picture in the Cookie Dough Lovers Cookbook shows the disticntion between the layers; however...

Compost cookies might not sound like an appealing name, but neither were the other options: "garbage cookies" or "kitchen sink cookies." Promise me when I say these cookies are delicious despite the name, with a little bit of everything you can think of in a cookie recipe (minus the kitchen sink). Basically the idea for this cookie started as...

Many moons ago when I first bought and flipped through Molly Moon's Homemade Ice Cream cookbook, I remember seeing a recipe for blood orange sorbet. The description of the sorbet described the flavor as "amazing" and "bright" to "have kicking around \[your] mouth in cold, wet January." Well I remembered those words. Now it's mid-January and cold...

My only gripe about Dahlia Bakery is that they aren't on the Eastside, so we can't stock up on their freshly baked bread, treats, and delicious breakfast sandwiches all of the time. So we'll have to settle for the next best thing—making Dahlia's treats in our own kitchen from The Dahlia Bakery Cookbook (I love the tagline— Sweetness in...