Cranberry Pecan Bread

Aside from turkey, on any given holiday table, my least favorite thing is very often the cranberry sauce. Perhaps I had one too many cloying canned versions as a kid, or the ones I had were simply too tart; for whatever reason, I usually pass the cranberry bowl to the next person swiftly. But then […]

Cinnamon-Eggnog Scones with Blonde Chocolate

I must say that I love the lazy “holiday hangover” days between Christmas and New Year’s, when you don’t know what day it is without thinking about it for a sec, when you’re still snacking on holiday cookies, and when most of the events are over. Let me preface this next bit by saying that […]

Sweet Potato Rye Bundt Cake

Sometimes a girl just needs a heads-up. Sometimes a cake is so unexpectedly perfect and fabulous, and you have no idea what you’re about to bite into because it looks like a regular cake-colored cake with a dusting of powdered sugar and no other ceremonial visual cues. In fact, you might even wonder what it […]

Butternut, Olive Oil, & Bittersweet Chocolate Cake

I know it’s mid-December, which means it’s wayyy into Christmas season… but I’m not fully there yet. My Fall baking is always delayed because October is a hellscape of raving mad work hours every year, leaving very little time for apple cakes, pumpkin bread, and other warmly spiced autumnal delights. So I’m rarely ready at […]

Baked Sunday Mornings: Banana Espresso Chocolate Chip Muffins

I’ve been staring at a blank screen for hours. I made muffins, and I don’t know what to say about them. I’ve been writing this blog for almost 7 years, and but the past year has been so inconsistent, and now I’m struggling to put down words. Hopefully I will work through this writer’s block… […]

Baked Sunday Mornings: Sour Cream Coffee Cake with Chocolate Cinnamon Swirl

I’m crawling to the finish line. I’ve just completed a year of living and traveling abroad, which has been an amazing whirlwind adventure– there will be more writings about this in a bit. For the moment, I’m days away from moving into my new apartment! I’ve been living quite nomadically for several months now, and […]

Baked Sunday Mornings: Vanilla Cranberry Coconut Granola with Blonde Chocolate

I was totally not going to make this recipe. I’m generally not ready to accept that the holiday sugar madness is over until around mid-January each year, and making granola right before New Year’s Eve seemed downright sacrilegious– I am still overloading on sugar cookies, eggnog, and fudge over here! The idea of raisins, cherries, […]

Baked Sunday Mornings: Nutella Scones (& Vanilla Bean Affogato Cameo)

Sometimes I forget how amazing Nutella is… Wow, seeing those words written down, I do realize how ridiculous it sounds. BECAUSE WHO COULD FORGET ABOUT NUTELLA. I don’t bake with Nutella nearly enough, so I took the opportunity this week to open a new jar and get reacquainted. Our current Baked Sunday Mornings recipe is Vanilla […]

Baked Sunday Mornings: Chipotle Cheddar Biscuits

Friends, I made biscuits, but I didn’t have time to write about them. This is a first. I tend to be pretty busy, but finding time to bake and blog is a top priority for me no matter what’s going on. But! Right now is a little different because I’m two weeks away from a […]

Baked Sunday Mornings: Maple Walnut Scones

I need a Scone Support Hotline. I love making, baking, smelling, holding, and eating scones– every possible sensory experience that can be had with scones, I want to have it. But for some reason, when I make them, they look like ugly lumps. Instead of prim little triangles, they just flop over into shapeless hunks […]