Classic Brownies

No TWD for me this week, but I wanted to post on Tuesday anyway!  I’ve been experimenting with different brownie recipes lately. I’ve been trying a few of the fancier ones, but this time I just wanted a plain old classic brownie. I turned to Cook’s Illustrated for a good recipe because they [...]

April Daring Bakers: Cheesecake Pops

This month’s Daring Bakers Challenge was hosted by Elle of Feeding My Enthusiasms and Deborah of Taste & Tell. Thank you Deborah and Elle for hosting! They chose the Cheesecake Pops from Jill O’Connor’s book Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey. I’ve seen many bloggers make recipes from this book, and I think that I [...]

Lemon Bars

I had several motivations for making this recipe. I hadn’t made lemon bars in a long time and had been wanting to try them again. I am usually all for chocolate desserts, but ever since I made the Lemon Tart for Tuesdays With Dorie, I have found lemon a bit more endearing. [...]

Tuesdays With Dorie: Big Bill’s Carrot Cake

Amanda from Slow Like Honey chose this week’s recipe, which was Big Bill’s Carrot Cake. I was interested to find out what this carrot cake version would be like. Carrot cake is David’s favorite cake and it is a favorite in my family as well. My mom’s carrot cake recipe gets requested [...]

Ultimate Turtle Brownies

I love brownies, and I love experimenting with different types of brownies. One of my favorites is Dorie Greenspan’s Quintuple Chocolate Brownies, but this one just may be my new favorite. I’ve had my eye on these for a while since I first saw them in Cook’s Illustrated, and I decided that I [...]

Peanut Butter Brownies

I was craving something peanut butter last week. I thought about making peanut butter cookies, but I remembered this recipe for peanut butter brownies that I saw on Smitten Kitchen. I thought it would be perfect. I love peanut butter and chocolate, so this was the perfect combination. They turned out [...]

Tuesdays With Dorie: Marshmallows

This week’s recipe was Marshmallows, chosen by Judy of Judy’s Gross Eats. The name of her blog makes me laugh because I have never seen anything gross on it! She makes a lot of really delicious things, so be sure to check her blog out! I was looking forward to this recipe [...]

Penne a la Betsy

This recipe has been popular on the cooking board I frequent lately, although I remember seeing it for the first time on Annie’s Eats. This recipe is from the popular blog The Pioneer Woman Cooks. I really like this blog because she takes pictures of the meals as she is cooking it. [...]

Tuesdays With Dorie: The World’s Most Extraordinary French Lemon Cream Tart

This week’s recipe was Dorie’s French Lemon Cream Tart, chosen by Mary of Starting From Scratch. We had the choice of making either the Lemon Cream Tart or the Fresh Orange Cream Tart since there are a lot of people who don’t like lemon. I wouldn’t have minded either way, but I know [...]

Tiramisu

I had been wanting to make Tiramisu for a long time but never had a reason to make it. Last week we were eating dinner with some friends in our church group and the topic of Tiramisu came up and I mentioned how I’d always wanted to make it. They all told me [...]