As mentioned previously, I'm binging on gingerbread this holiday season. I want to eat so much gingerbread this month that I'm sick of it and don't end up craving it for the rest of the year. I believe I am well on my way to my goal with this cake. I made this to serve as dessert to our guests after our Tex-Mex baked pasta. I've been reminiscing...

I have been craving gingerbread so badly. I want it in all forms— cookie, cake, doughnut, anything with gingerbread— you name it, I want it. But I've been putting it off. Until now. Gingerbread is not a traditional Christmas thing for me. Apparently I am the only one in my family who really cares for it. My mom says she doesn't know where I...

We finally made it into downtown Seattle on a Friday, so I was able to pick up a loaf of fresh challah from the bakery. I've been itching to make French toast with challah for awhile now. Even though Dustin is Jewish, he isn't a huge fan of challah (although he nibbled on this quite a bit and commented on how quickly it disappeared). I on the...

Top Pot makes a delicious old-fashioned pumpkin doughnut that sadly I only sampled once. I wish pumpkin flavored things were in season longer because now that Thanksgiving is over, so is most everything pumpkin. Everybody has moved on to peppermint, eggnog and gingerbread baked goods. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love those flavors too—...

I think chocolate waffles are Dustin's favorite sweet breakfast. We bought the Williams Sonoma Chocolate-Chocolate Chip Waffle Mix before, but I was sure I could make delicious waffles from scratch. I used this recipe I found online except that part way through mixing the wet ingredients that I only had one cup of buttermilk, not the necessary...

I've had a craving for S'mores since last summer, so when I finally made S'mores cupcakes for Dustin's birthday, I thought the craving for S'mores would go away. Not the case. Every time I see the mini marshmallows in the cabinet I want to bust them out and eat them with chocolate and graham crackers. I've always liked S'mores, but they were...

Until recently I was never much of an oatmeal person, and when I did eat oatmeal it was always the instant microwave kind. I honestly just preferred cold cereal most of the time. The flavor choices always seem more interesting (i.e. more sugary for me) when I walked down the aisle in the grocery store, and most of the time when I ate oatmeal, it...

As stated before, I hate making pancakes. But these pancakes looked so good, and I really wanted to try them. Instead I did a little research on the difference between pancake and waffle batter. I couldn't find a good article written by an authoritative source with the differences, but after reading some discussion threads, I found some...

Hands down. Best. French. Toast. EVER. Good French Toast starts with good bread, which is probably why this French Toast was so delicious. However, I think I'm going to take credit and say it was my amazing cooking skills. Knowing we were making our favorite French Toast this week in celebration of Dustin's birthday, we stopped at Macrina...

A waffle iron may not sound like the sweetest gift in the world as an anniversary present. In fact is sounds a little like a selfish one— “Here’s your gift…Now make me waffles!” But in fact a waffle iron has turned into one of the most thoughtful and useful gifts I’ve ever gotten from Dustin. Dustin knows how much I love to go out for brunch,...