Are you ready for Christmas? Less than two days to go! I’m not sure whether I’m super excited or super stressed, but for the purposes of happy blogging, we’re going to go with super excited. I made this French Silk Pie for a holiday party a few days ago, and although I’m crazy busy, I…
Category: Desserts
Chocolate Amaretto Cookies
Oh my goodness you guys, it has been weeks! I have a pretty good excuse, though – we just got back from an amazing trip to Italy!! We had a fantastic time visiting Rome, Milan, Venice, and Florence. We saw awe-inspiring sights, enjoyed incredible food, and met some lovely people….but more on that later, let’s…
Rum Cake (Tortuga Copycat)
A couple of years ago my husband, his parents, and I went on a cruise to the Bahamas. At one the ports, my in-laws came back with a Tortuga Rum Cake. I’d never had one before, but they promised me I was in for a treat. A few weeks later I got to sample it,…
Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes with Salted Caramel Frosting
So, you may remember that last year I crowned my Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes with Brown Sugar and Cinnamon Frosting, like, the queens of fall. The end-all be-all of autumn related cupcakes. The autumnest of the autumn. The epitome of fall in a paper wrapper. Well, as it turns out, I was wrong. I know. How…
Big Soft and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies (#11)
As I mentioned yesterday, we’ve had 6 new families move into the neighborhood recently. Since I had put off getting welcome baskets out to them, I had to kick it into high gear and get some cookies baked while the weather was still cool enough to use the oven! The first batch of cookies made…
Betty Crocker’s Chocolate Chip Cookies (#10)
We’ve had SIX new families move into our neighborhood in the last month or so. This may be a record! Normally I’d try to get welcome baskets out to them in a timely manner (is it really a great welcome if it comes 3 months after they move in?), but the weather was hot, sticky,…
Brown Butter Fudge
Every year at Christmastime, my dad makes incredible fudge. It is SO good. Like, “sure I just ate a half dozen cookies AND a full 3 course meal, but there’s always room for fudge!” good. It has become his specialty, to the extent that at holiday time and work potlucks, it is a given that…
Soft Extra-Large Lemon Cookies
As part of a double birthday at the office, I made two types of cookies based on the requests of “something lemony” and “something chocolatey” – these lovely lemon (like that alliteration? Me too.) cookies were the something lemony, and they were a huge huge HUGE hit! Until now, the only lemon cookies I had…
Extra-Large Double Chocolate Cookies
I’m not sure what has changed at our company in the last few years, but apparently double birthdays are a regular thing now! This time I made two types of large and chewy cookies based on the requests of “something chocolatey” and “something lemony” For the “something chocolatey” I made these HUGE Double Chocolate Cookies….
Amish Drop Sugar Cookies
Last weekend my husband had the guests of his best friend’s bachelor party meet at our house before heading out for the evening. Happy hostess that I am, I just had to make them something to nosh on! I had plans to do something elaborate, but once we were 2 hours away from party time,…
Superhero Birthday Cake
My sister-in-law and I have a tradition of baking cakes for my nephew’s birthday. This year, life took over and she had to sit this one out. She suggested we could just buy a cake, but I couldn’t let that happen! Initially my nephew requested a chocolate cake with lemon and strawberry and I said…
Chocolate Cake Roll
When I made my first cake roll for Easter, I failed to get it rolled as tightly as I would’ve liked. I had extra pattern batter left over, so I figured I might as well try again. For the second cake, I made a chocolate sponge cake, applied a more elaborate decoration (again inspired by…
Devil’s Food Cake with Amaretto Frosting
One of my husband’s close friends is part of a technology start-up, so he’s constantly traveling for work. As you might imagine, that means that staying in touch can sometimes get tough. Oh, AND his Instagram never fails to be full of infuriatingly exotic locales, so I’m always wayyy too envious of him. 😉 On…
Alton Brown’s Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies (Chocolate Chip Cookie #9)
Hey, it’s me, Leesha, your favorite Chocolate Chip Cookie Specialist, back again with a batch of, you guessed it, Chocolate Chip Cookies! But not just any Chocolate Chip Cookies – these are super chewy, almost like those guilty-pleasure store-bought ones. Once again, the occasion for these was delivering a welcome basket to new neighbors. This…
The Trifle formerly known as Black Forest Bundt Cake (How to salvage a broken cake!)
Earlier this week a coworker requested cronuts for his birthday, and while I really wanted to oblige, there simply weren’t enough hours left in the day to get it done. Oh, also, my husband has been asking me to make him croissants for months, so making cronuts for someone else probably wouldn’t have gone over…