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Category Archives: Dessert
Moist Yellow Cake with Vanilla Buttercream Icing and Chocolate Buttercream Filling
While I certainly don’t consider myself the best cake maker, or baker, for that matter, I like attempting homemade cakes rather than store-bought mixes a few times throughout the year: kids’ birthdays and my husband’s birthday. Perhaps a special occasion … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Dessert, Kids, Vegetarian
Tagged birthday, birthday cake, buttermilk, cake, chocolate buttercream, icing, moist yellow cake, vanilla buttercream, yellow cake
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Cookie Butter Chocolate Chip Hazelnut Cookies
We just spent the weekend in the Bay Area, where my husband played a few shows with his band, Cast of Clowns. I do enjoy Ashland, where we live, but also appreciate and enjoy the time traveling elsewhere. Trips of … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Dessert, Kids, Vegetarian
Tagged Biscoff, Biscoff Spread, brown sugar, chocolate chips, cinnamon, cookie butter, cookies, hazelnuts, sugar
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Vanilla Bean Cheesecake
If I had to pick my absolute favorite dessert, it would have to be cheesecake. Cheesecake that is not for the faint of heart, or those on a steadfast diet, or those who prefer completely light sweets. Rich and filling … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Dessert, Vegetarian
Tagged cheesecake, cream cheese, eggs, graham crackers, meyer lemon, sour cream, vanilla, vanilla bean
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Sourdough Cinnamon Rolls with Vanilla Bean Icing
Most of my memories surrounding things cooked in the house I grew up in have to do with my mom. My dad’s meals often seemed thrown together in a chaotic combination process that sometimes worked, but more often instilled fear. … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Bread, Breakfast, Dessert, Vegetarian
Tagged cinnamon, cinnamon rolls, dessert, homemade bread, maple syrup, sourdough, sourdough starter, vanilla, vanilla bean
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Peanut Butter Swirled Brownies
These brownies are often my go-to recipe for a last minute dessert. Really, what kind of logical person doesn’t constantly have butter, sugar, unsweetened cocoa, eggs, and flour on hand for times that require something sweet? Kidding. I often have … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Dessert, Kids, Vegetarian
Tagged brownies, butter, chocolate, chocolate chips, peanut butter, sugar, vanilla
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Ginger Vanilla Applesauce
What do you do when you’ve got a handful of apples too soft to enjoy eating on their own? You make applesauce, because it’s easy. And delicious. I’ve eaten homemade applesauce, though I hadn’t made it myself before today. There … Continue reading
Posted in Appetizer, Breakfast, Dessert, Gluten-Free, Kids, Vegan, Vegetarian
Tagged apples, applesauce, cinnamon, ginger, sugar, vanilla
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Peanut Butter Oat Banana Smoothie
I have really weird eating habits sometimes. My cravings often come week-by-week. Some weeks all I want to eat are dark greens: spinach, kale, collards, chard. The next week the only things that sound good are breakfast related: pancakes, french … Continue reading
Posted in Breakfast, Dessert, Kids, Lunch, Vegan, Vegetarian
Tagged almond milk, banana, macadamia nuts, oats, peanut butter, yogurt
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Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Whoopie Pies
I don’t remember where I first discovered whoopie pies. I still don’t understand why they are called pies, rather than cake, which really is what these are. Two moist, semi-fluffy, cakes sandwiched together by a lovely cream filling. If you … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Dessert, Kids, Vegetarian
Tagged brown sugar, butter, buttercream, buttermilk, cake, chocolate, peanut butter, vanilla, whoopie pie
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Meyer Lemon Bars with Macadamia Shortbread Crust
I learned some things today: I learned that having two german shepherds who cumulatively weigh close to 200 pounds inevitably results in a yard full of nearly 20,000 pounds of dog crap. I learned that scooping up 20,000 pounds of … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Dessert, Vegetarian
Tagged butter, cookies, eggs, lemon, macadamia nuts, shortbread, sugar, vanilla
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Homemade Haupia
Some times I get homesick. I’ve lived in Oregon for over eight years now, but Kauai will always be a part of me. Besides, I still have family–blood related and not–living there. Mostly I get homesick for the ocean; being … Continue reading
Posted in Dessert, Gluten-Free, Vegan, Vegetarian
Tagged coconut, coconut milk, sugar, vanilla
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Julie Hashimoto-McCreery
