Cinnamon rolls are honestly a tricky thing to make well. Sometimes you get a super dry roll that just tastes like plain sugar, sometimes you get a roll that is so doughy in the middle you’re worried it’s going to make you sick. Finding the balance between a roll that’s done, but not dry, that also is gooey and melts in your mouth is something I’ve been working on for several years. With many, MANY, batches baked and trying to come up with my own recipe and technique, I came up with this one! The secret?! It’s baking some of the frosting INTO the rolls during the last few minutes of baking! I hope you give it a try, it’s life changing in the cinnamon…
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Continue ReadingI really like the soft soda shop type sugar cookies so much that I’m beginning to have a whole series of different versions of them. Since peanut butter and chocolate are my favorite dessert combo it only makes sense to…
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Chicken stir fry doesn’t have to be intimidating or something that takes a long time. This literally takes 30 minutes or less, especially if you meal prep and cut all the veggies up earlier in the day or even up…
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Aren’t you glad I’m not one of those annoying food bloggers that talks for 15 paragraphs about the world’s simplest recipe? There really isn’t much to say about these roasted carrots except that they’re simple and delicious. And all of…
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This is my former roommate, Whitney’s, recipe. She called it killer potato salad because it has a pound of bacon in it so it will probably kill you. This is my favorite potato salad and so insanely fast and easy…
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I love this meal. It’s filling and has some of the most well balanced flavors there could be. Coconut and lime and curry and honey were meant for each other. This is a recipe I’ve been developing for over a…
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I’ve always felt “meh” about a snickerdoodle cookie. They basically taste like a bland sugar cookie with cinnamon sugar on them. Then I discovered brown butter and all the delicious flavor this adds to basically everything and decided to try…
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The list continues to grow of things I can’t buy in Finland and therefore have had to learn how to buy. Enchilada sauce is one of them. Honestly after learning how to make it myself, this is also another thing…
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I never really had a good Gyro till I moved to Finland. There’s a restaurant called Fafa’s here that basically only sells these and they’re really good. I decided to try and re-create them at home so I can make…
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Cajun Jambalaya is a meal I grew up eating relatively often. It was always made from a box mix and that’s how I always have made it too. But then there’s no such thing as box mixes of basically anything…
