Gingerbread French Macarons
Last week my company had a cookie exchange/competition. Last year I won with chocolate french macarons with salted butter caramel. This year the pressure was on. I decided to keep the holiday theme and make gingerbread macarons. These cookies were so flavorful and delicious. You were left with the spicy ginger and cinnamon flavors lingering […]
Red Velvet Cupcakes
This week my coworkers and I have a Red & Green themed potluck in honor of the holidays. I decided to make red velvet cupcakes since I have never made them from scratch before. I was pretty psyched about this. I found this recipe on Brown Eyed Baker’s blog and tried it out. It was […]
Yellow Cake with Chocolate Ganache Frosting
A few weeks ago I made a birthday cake for a close friend. I have been fiending to make a cake ever since I moved out here to SF. This was the perfect occasion. I used Cinnamon Spice & Everything Nice’s yellow cake recipe and Bakerita’s frosting recipe with my own twist. I froze the ganache while I whipped […]
Apple Pie Bars
I had a Thanksgiving Potluck at work this week and I wanted to bring something easy to serve. The apple pie bars from The Comfort of Cooking was the perfect recipe for a non-traditional apple pie. I used Lipton Apple Cider mix in the caramel sauce to give it some extra apple-y flavor. I also increased […]
Pumpkin Spice Latte Fudge
Last night my friend had a holiday party and she asked me to make a few desserts for her. I wanted to make something seasonal, especially now that pumpkin spice season is ending soon. I saw on Pinterest that you could make fudge with condensed milk and a bag of chocolate chips. It seemed easy […]
Graze box!
Follow my blog with Bloglovin I got my first Graze box in the mail! I received 4 different snack – rice crackers, nuts, yogurt covered berries and granola bars. At first sight, I was like..umm….this isn’t much food. I’ll inhale this stuff in seconds… But then I started snacking…and I realized how filling nuts and […]