I was born in Louisiana and a lot of my family still lives there. Because of this I have a love of Mardi Gras food, particularly King Cake. When we moved to Finland, at the beginning of the year these cute little buns started showing up in grocery stores and bakeries. They’re called laskiaispulla or…
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Continue ReadingFrosted chocolate peppermint cookies are the perfect Christmas cookie. I’ve been making these type of super soft soda shop style sugar cookies for years and years now and every once in a while I try coming up with a new one. These seemed very Christmas-y and my girls love helping frost and sprinkle these type…
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This delicious crumble only takes about 5-10 minutes to put together! Here in Finland, strawberries are in full season and they are the most delicious in the whole world. At least, the most delicious strawberries I have ever tasted. People say it’s because there is so much light here in the summer (like 19-20 hours…
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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…
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I 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 make a peanut butter sugar cookie! These are right up there as one of my…
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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 a browned butter snickerdoodle cookie. I have one other snickerdoodle recipe on my website and…
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Chocolate Chunk Muffins are seriously delicious. They taste as good as you can get from a bakery (or Costco!) and have impressive and huge muffin tops! If you’re looking for a healthier chocolate breakfast muffin try these whole grain chocolate blender muffins.
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I wish I could have gotten this cereal milk tres leches cake up yesterday for you, but I got it up before Cinco de Mayo tomorrow! If you start this tonight or tomorrow morning, you can eat this for dessert tomorrow! I’m not a big cereal eater but I do love the cereal milk! I…
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I wanted to be helpful for you in finding the perfect recipe(s) to make for Cinco de Mayo next week so that’s why I created this recipe roundup for you! All my favorite Mexican inspired recipes on my blog in one place. This past week I posted this copycat recipe for Cafe Rio dressing. It’s…
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Chocolate white chip cookies are one of my favorite kinds of cookies but a lot of recipes I’ve tried just don’t taste as good as a bakery version so I set out to create my own. Much like several other cookies on this website (tried and true chocolate chip cookies, cookie butter cookies) it took…
