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Category Archives: Dessert
Easy Coconut Chocolate Mousse
Maybe it’s because I’m officially closer to the 30 than 20 since my last birthday. Maybe it’s because I’ve been finding it fun to cook all kinds of things I didn’t think I’d enjoy. Maybe it’s just because my tastes … Continue reading
Posted in Dessert, Gluten-Free, Kids, Vegan, Vegetarian
Tagged chocolate, coconut milk, sugar, vanilla
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Brown Butter Honey Banana Cake with Whipped Honey Buttercream Frosting
Some days require cake, regardless of special occasions. Fancy cake, plain cake, frosted, unfrosted, cupcakes, layer cakes, sheet cakes… Cake. I’ve struggled with food in the past — counting calories religiously, limiting myself with numbers and quantities. Worrying about where … Continue reading
Banana Pudding
Until I met my husband and mother-in-law, I didn’t know what a banana pudding was. I envisioned something like vanilla pudding with bananas thrown in, or something similar to the chocolate pudding my mom would make when we had a … Continue reading
Happy New Year! Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies?
First of all, I’m not a New Year’s Resolution kind of girl. I don’t believe in setting goals for the upcoming year that are bound to result in disappointment or loom over me all intimidating and heavy. That said, I’m … Continue reading
Flourless Chocolate Cake with Ganache
This gluten-free learning has been an interesting challenge. Tuesday was Craig’s birthday and I realized that in order for me to bake a cake, it would either involve using different flours and ingredients than I’ve used before, or I could … Continue reading
Happy Halloween
We had a Halloween kids party for 6 year old Silas’s classmates… I attempted to plan some easy foods that would work for the youngins and parents… The spread included: creepishly realistic strawberry & cream jello worms, peanut butter cup … Continue reading
Mixed Fruit Crisp
What do you do when the majority of your fruit bowl is nearing an inevitable dump to the compost pile? You scrounge up the good parts of each piece of fruit and make a fruit crisp, of course! Anytime I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Dessert, Vegetarian
Tagged apple, cinnamon, cranberries, fall, figs, pears, plums
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Silas Henry’s Chocolate Cake and Buttercream Amazingness
I am a master at making sunken-middle floppy homemade cakes. Fortunately, the following cake came out not just rich, moist, and fluffy… It looked like it was supposed to! I hadn’t made buttercream frosting prior to this recipe. Honestly, most … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Dessert, Kids, Vegetarian
Tagged birthday, buttercream, cake, chocolate, cupcakes
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Lemon Vanilla Cupcakes
It’s June?! How did this happen? Summer vacation starts tomorrow. Tomorrow I am officially closer to 30 than 20. The last few weeks have been spent in and out of town, running around like a madwoman, readying myself for the … Continue reading
Chocolate High Top Cupcakes
My sister recently told me she was glad my cooking skills got better, reminding me of a time I tried to cook a whole egg in the microwave, shell included. You can consider using Legend Cookware and other high-performance cooking … Continue reading
Julie Hashimoto-McCreery
