brown sugar maple cake - toasted pecans - salted whiskey buttercream - stacked

Brown Sugar Maple Cake with Salted Whiskey Buttercream

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If you want a super easy, perfectly textured no-fuss cake that’s ready in under an hour, this Brown Sugar Maple Cake with Salted Whiskey Buttercream may just be what you’re looking for. A soft, sweet cake that stays fluffy and moist for days, this cake is so easy to throw together that even though I …

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compost cookie bars - stacked

Compost Cookie Bars

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There’s something about throwing a bunch of your favorite snacks together into one cookie dough base that makes the resulting treat all the better. Inspired by Momofuku Milk Bar’s Compost Cookies, these bars take that idea and put it all into one pan to create squares for everyone–chewy and soft center pieces and edges with …

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espresso chocolate chunk skillet cookie - caramel - still warm

Espresso Chocolate Chunk Skillet Cookie

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The ever timeless pairing of coffee and chocolate come together in this supersized Espresso Chocolate Chunk Skillet Cookie. With a layer of whiskey caramel in the center (optional, but highly recommended–you can also always just use a layer of store-bought caramel sauce if you don’t want to make your own), this skillet cookie is impossible …

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banana and hazelnut cupcakes with nutella cream cheese frosting

Banana Hazelnut Cupcakes

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These Banana Hazelnut Cupcakes are just about everything you can ask for in a cupcake–soft, moist, full of banana flavor with a bit of crunch and earthy nuttiness from the tasted hazelnuts–all topped off with a Nutella Cream Cheese Frosting that is slightly tangy, slightly sweet, and fully as addicting and eat-it-by-the-spoonful-able as Nutella itself. …

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stout and rye soda bread - loaf

Stout & Rye Soda Bread

Bread

For some reason, even though there is zero Irish in my DNA, this seems to be the one holiday besides Christmas where I can actually get on board with creating bakes to celebrate the day (okay, I guess I did have an Easter bake last year as well). And how can you resist when it …

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blueberry balsamic muffins - in muffin tray - blueberries - streusel topping

Blueberry Balsamic Muffins

Muffins

I have had blueberry and balsamic vinegar on my mind for years. No joke. A few years ago, I made a blueberry pie for my friend Sara’s birthday with a brown sugar and oat crumble topping. I never got a bite of it, but have been obsessed with the way the blueberries and balsamic vinegar …

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puppy chow cookies - chocolate and peanut butter cookies - muddy buddies - chex - stacked

Puppy Chow Cookies

Cookies

Okay. Okay okay okay. I know I said that I was done with the cookie project after last year, but I can’t just abandon cookies completely! They’re usually pretty quick to throw together (unless you’re making my Snickers Cookies or Coffee, Sage, and Maple Millionaire’s Shortbread–those both take a bit of prep but are totally …

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baked strawberry old-fashioned doughnuts - stacked - coffee cup

Baked Strawberry Old-Fashioned Doughnuts

Doughnuts

Yes, I’m back for another week with another doughnut recipe. They’re just so quick and easy to make that it’s been so much fun testing these recipes out and coming up with them, and I’m excited keep playing with doughnut recipes because, the texture of these has me hooked. These Baked Strawberry Old-Fashioned Doughnuts especially. They’re so …

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baked chocolate old-fashioned doughnuts - donuts - doughnut stack - chocolate

Baked Chocolate Old-Fashioned Doughnuts

Doughnuts

Let’s talk doughnuts. To be honest, they’ve always been something that I could take or leave and not really miss out on. I went years before ever actually grabbing a doughnut hole out of the little box from Dunkin’ Donuts. And even longer before finally trying the chocolate glazed doughnut holes (mostly because they were …

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