Halloween is over, Thanksgiving is almost here, and based on the level of red/Santa/snowflakes I have been seeing in stores, it might as well be December already. Call me a grinch, but each holiday deserves to have its own time in the spotlight, and I am not a fan of the way that “the holidays”…
dessert
Brown Sugar Caramel Cake with Peanuts & Pretzels (Hershey’s Gold Cake)
Who needs candy bars when you’ve got cake? I’d pick cake just about any day, but with this one, you don’t have to choose! It combines the sweet and salty flavors of caramel, peanuts, and pretzels to make a Hershey’s Gold-esque layer cake! It all started when earlier this year, a coworker brought mini Hershey’s…
Snickerdoodle Cookie Cups [and thoughts on babies.]
Note to self: Be careful of your hashtags and double entendres. Because regardless of what you intend, all it takes is a simple misinterpretation to get a completely different read on a situation, comment, or post. Let me back up to when I got a refresher course in being straightforward. Last summer, I had it…
Miso Caramel Apple Pie
What “feels like home” to you? I’m still working on calling Memphis home because even though I’ve lived here for 5 years, there’s just something natural about saying, “I’m going home to see my family” when I travel to visit them in New York. When does one get to the point in adulthood where “home”…
Sweetened Condensed Milk Brownies
Confession: Box brownies are where it’s at. Why mess with perfection? Especially when someone has already done all of the hard work FOR YOU? Brownies are finicky enough with their bake time, so I take the low road and rely on the old standby: the box brownie. If you wanted to know, this recipe is…
Red Velvet Cheesecake Cake
This post is going to involve lots of confessions. Cue Usher. Now we’re ready. Confession #1: When I make recipes, I don’t *usually* test them. I get an idea and make it happen. Yes, this could lead to a flaws in my recipes here and there, but (a) I am not a professional, (b) remaking…
Atlantic Beach Pie w/ Pretzel Crust (2 years of JTB!)
Are you a beach person? I didn’t grow up anywhere near the ocean. During my adolescent years, we lived a mile and a half away from a small beach on Lake Ontario. Lake Ontario is nothing like the ocean, but when that’s what you’ve got, water is water, and the beach is the beach. Sometimes…
Sprinkle Crusted Strawberry Pie
Should I have subtitled this, “Includes a UNICORN crust?” I don’t understand the obsession with unicorns. I mean, Lisa Frank was cool and all, but I guess I just bash things that seem too trendy to believe. Examples include fidget spinners (my boys at school love them), this unicorn/mermaid/ glorified rainbow guise, and Pokemon Go…
Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups with Whipped Salted Caramel Frosting!
IT’S SPRING BREAK! Except Memphis decided to be awesome and bring back winter for a week. It’s all 20s, 30s, 40s, and rain here. Yuck. But I’ve got a “new” cookie recipe for you. It’s inspired by Sally and Tieghan. I took some from here and some from there, and BOOM! new chocolate chip cookie…
#NoBanNoWall Cupcakes
So I’ve been pretty quiet up in here on the political scene, and that’s not without cause. (Disclaimer: When I speak up on something, I want to be 100% sure I know what the heck I’m talking about and 100% sure that I support it.) In the past few weeks, though, it’s painfully obvious how…