These scones look like awkwardly shaped cookies, and they kinda taste like them. They are like cookie-granola bar-scones. They have a really good personality. Basically, this is the go-to recipe when you have a few kinds of chocolate chips, and a 6 walnuts, and a little bag of coconut left. They are good at making all those things feel like they were in your pantry for a reason. They make the end-bits feel good about themselves.…
Since these are best warm, I ate three. Three’s not a crowd in my belly. I’m glad these worked out and taste like heaven … especially since I tried to make pumpkin goodness, but messed it up by using too much evaporated milk because I don’t know what a “tall can” is. But these made me feel way better! I think I’ll make these the next time I get my hair cut and the stylist…
Breakfast should always be disguised as dessert on the weekend. When I was a kid, my mom would sometimes make waffles and sandwich ice cream in the middle. I think these waffles would be really good at that. They’d taste like a breakfast malt, and that sounds like the best idea yet! Have you bought the Baked Explorations cookbook yet? If you haven’t, you should probably get right on it. Every single recipe is dreamy looking.…
Rumor has it, this bread was named after a sassy husband and his wife Anna. The husband was sick of corn meal mush in his life. He said, “Damn it, Anna, I’m just really sick of corn meal mush, and now you’re putting it in bread?! I’m over it, bia.” So now you have it. Unlike that sassy husband, I love corn meal everything. If it was up to me I’d call this bread Thanksanna…
When I was a kid, I thought carrot cake was super gross. Now I know better. It’s not scary at all; it’s just a really pretty orange spice cake with cream cheese frosting. I grated a pound of carrots. (While grating, I wondered why the YMCA doesn’t have a carrot-grating class, because it wore my arms out.) Anyhow, I grated them really teeny so that they wouldn’t be weird and crunchy in the cake, but…
There’s this restaurant that has an apple pancake similar to this. I order it sometimes. And let me tell you, I’m a champ. I’ve finished the whole thing. With that said, I’m trying to be a lady. So I’m saying this serves four. Four ladies such as myself that don’t consider a sliver of this enough, but can’t justify eating this whole pancake on a Sunday while watching the Law and Order SVU scare-a-thon. I…
Next week I’m going to the dentist and I’m getting my hair cut. I’m doing my best to have a sparkling smile and to not look like a ragamuffin. Next week I am going to go to pilates and I’m going to bundle up for walks. I’m going to wear ankle boots and not trip over the curb in front of strangers on a Tuesday. I’ll do my best not to cough because I breathed…
Here are some scaaaaaaaary cupcakes for you. (Now imagine I said that in a ghost voice, all spooky-like.) Chipotle + chocolate = love. In these cupcakes you can taste the spice without being bullied by it. It’s an obvious heat without being scary. I used Dutch cocoa to make these super dark and mysterious. If only I was dark and mysterious. I’m pale in the redhead way. I suppose, it could work in my favor though.…
Biscuits topped with honey are my favorite. They’re about as homey as mac and cheese and high school music. So take the fall remix of that love and bake it. You’ll end up with these! I ate two of these with dinner. One as an appetizer because I couldn’t resist waiting, and the other one during the meal. I really wanted to have a third for dessert, but I couldn’t go crazy, right? Even though…
Root beer and chocolate go together like Tegan and Sara and Romy and Michele. Did you know that? It was agreed after tasting, that root beer definitely heightens the chocolate flavor in a twin-sisters-in-a-band way and a BFF kind of way. Here’s the part where my mom stirred the cocoa powder mixture and it bubbled and popped because of the root beer. It was pretty and poppy. Can you believe those bubbles are really real? Instead…