M&M candies are near and dear to my heart. My husband and I love chocolate and most people love it too so we thought that it would be awesome to hand out personalized M&Ms on our wedding day. They were grey and white, marked with our names and wedding date. They were so cute! Now every time I see or eat M&Ms I always think back to our perfect day. 🙂 When I saw the red and green M&Ms at the store, nostalgia set in and I knew I had to incorporate them into my holiday baking. I …
I like biscotti, but I won’t go out of my way to eat one. I’m also not a fan of almond flavoring. (Great selling points, Tina. I’m going somewhere with this, trust me). Why did I make these almond biscotti? I made them for my dad, who is a huge fan of almond biscotti and I knew he’d love them with his morning coffee. You know what the nice surprise was though? The rest of my family and I fell in love with them too. In fact, my youngest sister wanted to bake them for her boyfriend. She came over …
I’ve made three batches of these peanut butter cookies in the past few months! This is a story of loving a cookie, making it for everyone I know, and being utterly unimpressed with my pictures of them. Over and over. I have to admit part of my motivation to keep making these was pictures that weren’t worthy of posting (occupational hazard of a food blogger). I figured that if I kept trying I would eventually be happy with the pixels I managed to capture. Well this is it. Finally everyone gets to see my pictures and eat these cookies. My …
Crumb cakes are one of my favorite things on earth. I always say that I could eat the crumbs by themselves because I love them so much. Can you see where I’m going with this? Oh no she didn’t? Um, yes, I did. I decided to make a crumb cake that skips the cake part. Don’t get me wrong, cake is yummy, but sometimes a girl just wants the crumb part. These bite size cups are filled with 100% crumbs and topped with miniature cinnamon chips to make them a little more interesting. Mini Cinnamon Crumb Cups Recipe (Makes 24 mini muffin cups) Ingredients: 1/3 cup …
Buttery goodness. Crumbs that melt in your mouth. Decadent vanilla flavor. Do I have your attention? These shortbread cookies may look boring, but they are quite the contrary. After one bite, these cookies will become one of the most irresistible cookies that you’ve ever had. To quote my taste tester and husband extraordinaire, “Yea, these don’t suck.” Which was said while eating several pieces after the one I’d handed him as a taster. Shortbread Cookies Recipe (Makes 16 cookies) Ingredients: 1 cup (equivalent to 2 sticks) butter, room temperature 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 cups cake flour 3/4 cup powdered sugar 1/2 …
