Archive for March, 2014

  • Crack Attack.

    Crack Attack.

    March 29th, 2014

    When you’re all excited about your latest baking masterpiece, the last thing you want to have happen is this. The 4-Layer Insanity Bars were all but ready to be served, all but ready to be graced upon this world.  (Really- I toiled over these mofos for a very long time– like a four-layer kind of long […]

    Read More

  • 4 Layer Chocolate Cheesecake Insanity Bars

    4 Layer Insanity Bars

    March 29th, 2014

    I have never made anything more decadent (oh, except for the Astonishing Chocolate Bar Cake which required the sprinkling of 14 chopped up bars overtop of multiple layers of chocolate cake.  Yeah, that was pretty decadent.).  But this, this dessert.  There are four layers of dessert going on, four layers of love.  Four layers of […]

    Read More

  • Cookie Dough Ice Cream Pie

    Cookie Dough Ice Cream Pie

    March 26th, 2014

    Many people’s dreams will come true with this dessert.  So by extension, if you make this dessert and give it to people, you will become a dream weaver.  (You can hum the tune to the 1976 song as though it’s the soundtrack to this post.  You know, the one that goes “ooh dream weaver… I […]

    Read More

  • Healthy PB Honey Balls

    Healthy PB Honey Balls

    March 22nd, 2014

    Peanut butter and honey are classic together, aren’t they? Flash back to the “Toast Post”, which married the two ingredients together (spread over toasted cinnamon bread with sliced bananas and brown sugar sprinkles, actually— an absolute MUST any morning of the week, obviously).  The good news is that the ingredients bind together in such a way […]

    Read More

  • Easy Almond Cookies

    Easy Almond Cookies

    March 19th, 2014

    These are the kind of cookies you make when you don’t feel like exerting any effort at all.  Like when you just feel like whirling a bunch of tasty stuff together in the food processor and then baking it for about 20 minutes and then hitting the couch hard. I admit that I used a […]

    Read More

  • Mint Muckup

    The Mint Muckup.

    March 15th, 2014

    I don’t really want to talk about this disaster. I hope that’s okay with you. And I also hope you appreciate that it’s at least a festive f-up because of the whole green thing (St. Patty’s Day- get it?). These were meant to be appealing Mint Chocolate Fudge Brownie Bites.  Not Radioactive Waste Fudge Brownie […]

    Read More

  • Mint Chocolate Fudge Brownie Bites

    Mint Chocolate Fudge Brownie Bites

    March 15th, 2014

    Yes, another deviation off the World’s Greatest Fudge Brownie recipe, folks. Eat it up. Especially if you’re into the mint chocolate thing, which 95% of you are.  (For the remaining 5% of you freaks, what can I say?  Make this recipe without the mint chocolates, or go make a Zucchini Bread or something.) Adapted from my World’s Greatest […]

    Read More

  • Irish Cream Creme Brulee

    Bailey’s Irish Cream Creme Brulee

    March 13th, 2014

    How did it get to be almost St. Patrick’s day again?  (Wasn’t it just Valentine’s Day?) As a baker you’re expected to come up with desserts geared around a theme, and I usually give into the hype.  (Oh, you want examples?  Try these heart- shaped cookies meant for VD, or these nest egg cookie things […]

    Read More

  • Maple Pecan Bars

    Maple Pecan Bars

    March 8th, 2014

    I have a thing for maple syrup. As a kid growing up in the Great White North, field trips consisted of visiting the depths of freezing cold forests to learn about the riveting process of sap-turned-into-syrup.  Boring lessons, but worth standing in the cold for a taste of frozen syrup on slabs of icy snow. […]

    Read More

  • CranberryAlmondMacaroon

    Cranberry Almond Coconut Macaroons

    March 6th, 2014

    You know when they say “don’t mess with a good thing”? Well sometimes the “they” people are stupid. A macaroon cookie is a beautiful thing, and has the oomph to stand on its own.  But it’s kind of like The World’s Greatest Fudge Brownie in that it can also act as a base for you […]

    Read More

  • Mistake SHOOT!Fly Pie

    SHOOT-fly Pie.

    March 1st, 2014

    When a baking recipe instructs you to do things in a series of steps, you’re kind of sort of absolutely supposed to follow them. You’re supposed to be a good little baker and follow instructions.  Especially when one of the steps involves the chemical reaction that baking soda creates when mixed with, oh, say, molasses […]

    Read More

  • Shoofly Pie

    Shoofly Pie

    March 1st, 2014

    I have been wanting to make Shoofly Pie for years and years, mostly because of the name.  I can admit that.  (You have to say the name with a southern accent, too- the same one you use when you say Key Lime Pie.) I stumbled upon a Shoofly Pie recipe in a book that my […]

    Read More