Tag: dessert

Coconut Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

Coconut Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

Do you like cooking with your kids?  This isn’t a trick question. I can see why some people love it. I can also see why some people hate it.  Kids have a tendency to make things either a lot more fun or a lot more 

Stone Fruit Crumble

Stone Fruit Crumble

or, Alternatively titled, “The prodigal daughter returns, hanging her head in shame.” Actually, no shame.  I just took a break.  You all get that, right?  It’s only been a month.  Truth be told, I’m in one of those food ruts.  Like the kind where I 

Sour Cherry and Chocolate Frozen Yogurt

For a person who makes her own condiments and bakes her own bread, I have a decidedly lazy streak when it comes to certain things.  It’s ok, don’t we all, even the overachievers among us?  So here’s my confession: I leave laundry in the dryer 

Apple Pandowdy

I try to not eat things like skillet apple pie all the time, I swear.  I really do start out with the best intentions.  I go to the store and buy dozens of apples (healthy snacks!), but in the end, they wind up covered in butter 

Classic Chocolate Pudding

The things I do for you guys.  I have made this pudding three times now, just to really make sure it’s as good as it was the first time.  I experimented with different milks, different thickeners, different chocolate.  And I ate a lot of pudding. 

Apple Pie Biscuits

Everyone has their favorite fall thing. Pumpkin is a biggie.  Sweet potato is another one.  Mine is apples.  Come autumn, I want apple everything.  I love how versatile they are, how perfect raw or baked.  I feel the same way about apples in the fall 

Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Cookies with Coconut and Almonds

Holy delicious chocolate chunk cookies, Batman!  Seriously, if you do one thing this weekend, it should be making these cookies.

Zwetschgenkuchen (German Plum Cake)

It’s an interesting thing when you realize that your kid might just be even stranger than you are.  When I made this discovery, I was filled with a mixture of terror and pride.  Figure that one out, Freud. This latest realization came on the last 

Croissant Ice Cream Sandwiches

YOU GUYS.  This is not so much a recipe as a public service announcement.  I’m not even going to waste time with a pithy little intro on this one.  I just need to cut straight to the chase: CROISSANT ICE CREAM SANDWICHES. I have made 

Nectarine and Blueberry Poppyseed Cake

There are a lot of good things about being a parent.  But there are also some pretty lame parts about being a parent. You know what one of the worst parts of being a parent is?  When you have to be mean mommy. You know…