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 …
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 …
This recipe has me All Shook Up. And you know what? That’s All Right. I can guarantee that, pretty soon, this recipe will be Stuck on You as well. All right, all right. Done with the Elvis puns for now. Let’s get down to business. This puppy chow is addictive. Now, that’s not hard to believe when you take into account how …
It’s a new year, which means I get to share a bunch of whole new bakes! That’s not to say that I’ve completely abandoned cookie making (there are two biscotti recipes that I’ve got stored away to share and a requested recipe or two that I need to get working on), but it means that …
I worked at Starbucks for nearly five years as a barista. The holiday season was always the best. Let me tell you, from November to December, there is never a time where it doesn’t feel like Christmas is just around the corner. The holidays are all around you from the decor to the merchandise to …
For some people, the holidays are all about tradition. This may mean doing a grab-bag every year, going ice-skating in the winter, or taking a family trip sometime during the holiday season. For a lot of people, holiday traditions also include food. As an Italian, our Christmas is all about food: there’s the Feast of …
The holidays are coming up fast, and despite the fact that I finally have weekends again and time to focus on the important things like baking and writing that kind of fell to the wayside while I was working full months at a time, somehow I still feel underprepared for the holidays. After a week, …
The flavor pairing of chocolate and orange always reminds me of the holidays. I can’t explain exactly why: perhaps it’s because citrus really comes to life and reaches peak brightness in the winter, or because I remember seeing the orange foil balls and blue box in the stores we only went into at Christmas time. …
Now that Thanksgiving is over, it’s time to move on to the holiday famous for its cookies: Christmas. There’s something about ginger that just tastes like the holidays and let me tell you: these Ginger Cookies taste like Christmas. Using both ground ginger and crystallized ginger, you can actually taste the flavor in these cookies. …
Spicy chili and chocolate may sound like a combination that just does not go together, but there are chili recipes out there that use chocolate to add depth of flavor and mole sauce is known for combining the spiciness of poblanos (or other chili peppers) with–you know it–chocolate! Enter these Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookies. I …