Archive for October, 2014

  • Oatmeal Honey Butter Buns

    Oatmeal Honey Butter Rolls

    October 23rd, 2014

    I needed a recipe to remind me why it’s worth it to bake with yeast again.  Because sometimes yeast and I don’t get along… like when I made these Hot Cross Buns (which ended up not so hot… a lukewarmish success at best.  Lukewarm Cross Buns.  Not Hot.). I found it.  (Thanks to Marilyn, the woman […]

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  • Mistake Flour Spill

    The Flour Shower.

    October 18th, 2014

    I know this doesn’t really look like a disaster, so allow me to explain the full extent of the drama that unfolded after I spilled about a cup of flour all over the freaking place: There really was was flour all over the freaking place- which is enough of a situation to at least mildly […]

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  • Toasted Almond Brownies

    Toasted Almond Brownies

    October 15th, 2014

    Toasted almonds and milk chocolate just work. Don’t try to argue about it, because you’ll lose the fight all night long. Take a perfectly good sliced almond, improve it 750% by toasting it (really- if you don’t toast your almonds then you are living in a hazy, cloudy, sad, bland place), and throw it into […]

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  • Banana Chocolate Chip Healthy Muffins

    Banana Chocolate Chip Healthy Muffins

    October 11th, 2014

    Look at them. All 15 of them. 15 Ghirardelli chocolate chips taunting you, begging to be devoured. I should mention that the 15 chips (on the muffin on the right, just in case you’re confused) are merely the chips on top of the muffin, whereas an entire gang of premium chocolate chips have taken up residence inside of […]

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  • Red Velvet Cake Balls

    Red Velvet Cake Balls

    October 8th, 2014

    Sometimes cake just isn’t exciting enough. Sometimes you need to take a hunks of a perfectly good cake, roll them in your hands like you’re a kid (only your hands are clean in this scenario unlike a child’s grubby-playdoh-sandbox-poo-covered hands), and then drown the cake balls in frosting. And then you eat the cake balls […]

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  • SCREWberry Pie

    SCREWberry Pie.

    October 4th, 2014

    If I didn’t intervene when I did, I’d still be scraping a burned pool of blueberry goo off the bottom of our 400º oven.  Lucky for me I caught the blueberry avalanche before it set the smoke detector off.  As it stands, it’s just the dessert itself that was ruined (and my morale, because it […]

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  • Blueberry Preserve-Stuffed Banana Muffins

    Blueberry Preserve-Stuffed Banana Muffins

    October 1st, 2014

    Imagine for a second that you have a banana muffin and it’s stuffed with what can really only be described as blueberry pie filling. It’s happening.  Right here, right now, in this post. I used this super-cool gadget that let me bake the muffins with a hole in them, so I could fill them with […]

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