Monthly Archives: May 2013
Ooey Gooey Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Pound Cake
Week 2 of my Pullman vacay! The idea for this baby came about while my sis and I were watching a movie and eating caramel-covered popcorn, enjoying a 3-day weekend of no school or work to be done. Our hands became covered with salty caramel, and so did my thoughts. Hmm salted caramel cookies, bars, ice cream, […]
Peanut Butter Cookie Dough S’mores (ft. a bonus tale about my first Pullman baking experience)
Hello from Pullman, Washington! I’m here visiting my sister, Brooke, at Washington State University where she lives and goes to school. So, for the next 10 days, I’ll be documenting my experiences of what it’s like to have to bake in a completely unfamiliar kitchen in a completely unfamiliar town. In fact, my very first baking experience was so […]
Easy Blueberry Turnovers with Lemon Drizzle
You know, throughout the entire span of my life I don’t think I’ve once heard anyone say that they actually enjoy making pastry dough. What with all the butter chopping, flour flinging, dough-ball chilling, and rolling, and re-rolling, and flouring, and re-flouring, it can be difficult to even have the desire to make the stuff! That […]
Daisy B.’s Cupcake for a Movie Release!
I don’t know about you, but I had been counting down the days since last year until the release of the new Great Gatsby movie. I read the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a year and a half ago and was instantly captivated by the whimsical, elegant description of 1920’s New York, seen through the eyes of […]
Triple Chocolate Espresso Mousse Cake
I should be honest. This cake is a master of disguise. It looks like a cake, is shaped like a cake, and is even frosted like a cake, but don’t be fooled. If you were to cut into it, you’d find a layered dark chocolate and white chocolate mousse. Remember when we were little and […]