Baked Sunday Mornings: Chocolate Espresso Tapioca Pudding with Kahlúa Whipped Cream

Don’t you love it when things just work out? I was apprehensive about this week’s Baked Sunday Mornings recipe, Chocolate Espresso Tapioca Pudding with Kahlúa Whipped Cream from Baked Occasions, because my puddings have historically been hit-and-miss. (This is our Black Friday recipe, a little ahead of the “holiday”.) I have never made tapioca pudding from scratch, but […]

Baked Sunday Mornings: Black Cocoa Bundt Cake with Butter Whiskey Glaze

While I don’t have a lot of warm, fuzzy Dad memories, I need absolutely zero excuses to make an ultra-chocolaty cake, particularly one with black cocoa in it. It’s a day that ends in “-day”? Sounds like a GREAT reason to make cake! I got out of bed today? Let me just grab the flour. This week for Baked […]

Baked Sunday Mornings: Rainbow Icebox Cake with Homemade Chocolate Cookies

If you stop to think about it, rainbows are pretty damn amazing. A majestic spectrum of color emerges from a just-right mix of rain and sunlight to brighten the sky– and probably your day. And yet, this splendid arc cannot be captured, tamed, or touched– its ephemeral nature makes it all the more magical. The […]

Baked Sunday Mornings: Red Wine Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Glaze

Friends, it’s Memorial Day weekend, and in addition to honoring our fallen servicemen and -women, it means one other, very important thing: the school year is nearly over. If you work in a school setting, you know that students and staff alike can begin to taste the glorious summer days that are nearly within our […]

Unleavened Heaven: Matzah Tiramisu Cake

This year, I wasn’t able to host or attend a Passover Seder, so I wasn’t planning on baking for Passover. I was content scrolling through loads of Instagram food porn including flourless chocolate cakes, coconut macaroons, and various nut-based treats (all of which are leaps and bounds more appetizing than the Passover “cake” mixes and rubber […]

St. Patrick’s Italian Escapade: Irish Tiramisu Trifle

I hope the leprechauns behaved and rainbows shone bright for everyone last week on St. Paddy’s Day! As an Irish-adjacent wife, I wanted to make something festive and green to celebrate the occasion, but despite the bounty of mint, pistachio, and lime St. Patrick’s Day treats on the internets, none of those flavors are truly Irish. […]

Baked Sunday Mornings: Chocolate Texas Sheet Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting

After quite a stretch without much chocolate in my life (wha?!), sanity has returned this week. I really have no rational explanation for the two months or so that I wasn’t craving chocolate—basically since the holidays. The exorbitant doses that I consumed from October-December may have caused me to reach some sort of hitherto unknown […]