Chocolate Chip Layer Cake with Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting

This year’s birthday cake was this beauty of a chocolate chip three-layered cake. Some of the best cakes with the most moist and soft crumbs come from a boxed cake mix as the base. Don’t believe me? Try it for yourself! Ingredients Chocolate Chip Cake vegetable oil spray, for misting pans flour, for dusting pans […]

Copycat Girl Scouts Thin Mints

Are you sad that the Girl Scout cookie season is over? Well, don’t fret. Make these super duper delicious thin mint cookies. And dare I say, they’re even better than the originals? Try them for yourself. Ingredients Cookies 3/4 cup (1-1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature 1 cup granulated sugar 1 large egg 1 teaspoon […]

Triple-Layer Irish Cream Brownies

These fudgy and boozy brownies are a perfect grown-up dessert for St. Patrick’s Day or any day really. There is a layer of brownies, Irish cream frosting, and an Irish cream chocolate ganache on top. Delicious! Ingredients Brownie Layer 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter 8 ounces semi-sweet chocolate, chopped 2 cups granulated sugar 4 […]

The Best Chocolate Chip Muffins

Did you know that February 20th is National Muffin Day? These chocolate chip muffins are to die for. They are absolutely delicious and honestly, if I can eat one of these for breakfast, it’s really like having dessert for breakfast. Ingredients 2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 cup granulated sugar 2-1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon […]

Red Velvet Bundt Cake with Almond Cream Cheese Frosting

One of my favorite dessert hacks is to “doctor-up” a cake mix. By the addition of ingredients, you can use a boxed cake mix as the base of a beautiful cake. Like this one, for example. This red velvet cake is one of my favorites and man, it is delicious and easy! Ingredients Cake 3/4 cup buttermilk room […]

Cookies and Cream Chocolate Chip Cookies

There is not much I love more than a chocolate chip cookie! These are a fancy, dressed-up version of a regular chocolate chip cookie filled with Oreo cookie crumbles and a mix of semi-sweet chocolate chip and white chocolate chips. These might be my new favorite cookies! Ingredients 2 sticks (1 cup) butter, room temperature […]

Lemon Scones

No need to go to a bakery to enjoy these perfect lemon scones. These are simple ingredients, very minimal work, and you will have a perfect, bakery-level scone ready in absolutely no time. You’ll never want to go back to the store-bought version ever again. Ingredients SCONES 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 cup granulated sugar […]

Brown Sugar Cookie Butter Cookies

Here in Europe they have these little cookies during the holidays called spekulatius cookies. They’re basically spekuloos or cookie butter cookies with a cinnamon twist. However, these are soft-batch style instead of the traditional dry ones that need to be dunked in coffee. Ingredients 1 cup cookie butter spread 1/2 stick (4 tablespoons) butter, room […]

Hot Chocolate Cupcakes

It is winter and hot chocolate season, but really is it ever a bad time for hot chocolate? The flavors of rich chocolate and marshmallow go hand-in-hand and are a favorite of many. This cupcake recipe is quite extraordinary and I am obsessed with them. So is Summer, my golden retriever. I ran to the […]

Eggnog Cinnamon Rolls

Looking for the perfect Christmas morning breakfast? Look no further! These eggnog cinnamon rolls are light, fluffy, and flavored perfectly of all the warm eggnog flavors that you know and love. Ingredients rolls 3-1/2 to 4 cups all-purpose flour + more for dusting 1 package or 2-1/4 teaspoon instant yeast 2 tablespoons brown sugar 1/4 […]